DETROIT -- Give Lou Whitaker credit: He's always had a good awareness of the field around him.
As the Tigers great scanned the swarm of reporters crowded into an interview room behind the press box at Comerica Park, he knew the question that was bound to come up. So while Sunday was Trammell's day and Whitaker talked glowingly about his longtime double-play partner, he also gave a nod to the elephant in the room with a little icebreaker.
• Trammell's No. 3 immortalized at Comerica
"I have no control over it," Whitaker said over the possibility of his own Hall of Fame induction and his number being retired at Comerica Park.