He tells the story a lot, but it always brings a smile to the listener.
Dick Enberg, growing up on a 40-acre farm in Armada, always wanted to play right field for the Tigers. Problem was, in 1953, they signed a different 18-year-old kid, a chap named Al Kaline.
"I was moaning and groaning to my friends that Kaline had taken my job in right field," Enberg said over the phone Thursday. "My friends would say, 'Enberg, you thought you had talent, but you only talked a good game!'"
Well, years later it was that talking that finally granted Enberg his wish.