Detroit — The question was posed to Lou Whitaker Friday night:
Does this honor the Tigers are bestowing on you Saturday, immortalizing you by putting your number on the bricks at Comerica Park right next to your old double-play partner Alan Trammell, help mitigate any lingering disappointment from not being enshrined at Cooperstown?
“I’ve never been disappointed at all, yet,” he said, smiling. “Things happen. Sometimes just be patient. I haven’t been mad. I may have thought about it a time or two. But I’ve never thought about it like, ‘I belong there. I belong there.