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No more wondering: Detroit Tigers' retire Jack Morris' No. 47 jersey

Free Press sports writer Ryan Ford takes a look at former Detroit Tigers pitcher Jack Morris' MLB career. Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press

Selfishly, Jack Morris always wondered what it would look like.

He would come to Comerica Park in his post-playing days and look at the brick wall beyond left-center field, with the names Kaline and Cobb, Gehringer and Greenberg, Horton and Newhouser. He never knew if Sunday afternoon would come, but know this about Morris: He always believed he deserved to be on that same wall — the same way believed for more than 15 years he deserved to be voted by the baseball writers into the Hall of Fame.