DETROIT -- Placido Polanco spent 16 seasons in the Major Leagues with four teams. The Tigers were neither his longest stop (Philadelphia) nor his first (St. Louis), but they were his most memorable team.
"Every time I come here, I feel like I come home," Polanco told Tigers broadcaster Dan Dickerson on Friday at the annual Fiesta Tigres luncheon. "I feel like I never left. Everybody's very friendly. I played in quite a few places, and this is the only one where we had a place. We even came here for Christmas sometimes."
This weekend isn't a holiday, but it's a celebration.