Detroit — On a glorious Sunday at Comerica Park, the temperature on the left-field scoreboard was perfect.
It read 80, on the dot.
And few were baseball players were more defined by the '80s — from that period-piece mustache, to those major-league best 162 wins during the decade — than Jack Morris, who, 28 years after last throwing a pitch for the Detroit Tigers, finally saw his number retired.
Morris' last name and No. 47 is painted in white, with blue trim, on the left-center field brick wall — starting a second row of immortals, just below Hank Greenberg's No.