Detroit — He stares at the screen as familiar images flicker and distant sounds return.
“Have you seen this?” Kirk Gibson says.
Of course.
On Gibson’s computer in the Comerica Park TV booth, he’s a ballplayer again, leaping and exulting. It’s a video the L.A. Dodgers showed before their opener this season, when they honored Gibson 30 years after he hit one of the most famous home runs in baseball history. Gibson was there in March, and when he emerged to the roaring crowd, the fans stood in unison and performed his classic double arm pump.