A look back at the life of Al Kaline, the Detroit Tigers great, who died on April 6, 2020, at age 85. Detroit Free Press
Bill Dow is a senior major gift officer at the Beaumont Health Foundation and a longtime freelance sports writer for the Detroit Free Press. He was a main contributor to the 2018 exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum, "The Year of the Tiger:1968." He wrote this essay for the Free Press after the death of Tigers legend Al Kaline on Monday:
What do I have in common with Alice Cooper, Jeff Daniels, the late Glenn Frey of the Eagles, and thousands of other baby boomers who grew up in Michigan during the 1950s and '60s?