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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Detroit Tigers: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Detroit Tigers History (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) (The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly)

Description

The Tigers have won four world championships, have had two managers die in one season, have played ball while their city rioted around them, and have played host to some of the best and worst players in Major League Baseball. From losing three World Series in a row in the early 1900s to their unlikely trip to the World Series in 2006, from Denny McLain to Magglio Ordonez, and from Boss Schmidt to Kenny Rogers, the Detroit Tigers have always been a mix of good, bad, and ugly.

Their stories are collected here in a volume that Tigers fans everywhere will be sure to enjoy.

Reviews

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-03-31
Summary: "Another hack job"



First off let me say I never thought one way or the other about Cantor, the author of this book, when he was writing for the Detroit News while I was living in SE Michigan. But having seen book after book come out over the last several years from him, all obviously rush jobs with little research involved (how else to account for all the statistical errors?) and the same old anecdotes found in a 100 other books, I've come to the conclusion that George Cantor is basically a hack who will do anything to make a buck in retirement. He writes books like a columnist---500 words here, 250 words here, w/o any thought to transitioning between chapters. Of course he was a columnist so that explains a lot (especially why he leads the league in 6-page-long chapters).

For solid Detroit baseball history try Fred Leib, Richard Bak, a couple others whose names escape me.

One more thing....why do these kind of throwaway sports books always include a foreword by either Sparky Anderson or Willie Horton?? Shake it up, guys. Try someone new.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-03-15
Summary: "Statistically Inaccurate but Still Enjoyable"

For the most part I enjoyed this book but when I double checked what I thought were typographical errors I found they were actually statistical mistakes. An easy and obvious one was Denny McLain's won loss record in 1968. It was 31 - 6, not the 31 - 5 as stated on page 92. A minor mistake but annoying none the less. What I also thought was just a misprint in the article "Lord of the Triple". Cantor implies the all-time Tigers record for triples is the 309 hit by Sam Crawford. (A photo caption claims Crawford hit 312 for the Tigers.) Author George cantor goes so far as to claim that as a Tigers record, Crawford's statistic is permanently secure. That may be true as an MLB record but is flat out wrong concerning the Tigers. Crawford's 309 triples is in fact the MLB record but he hit 60 while he was with Cincinnati and only hit 249 as a Tiger. Ty Cobb holds the Tigers record for triples with 284. As a former journalist and currently a teacher of sports journalism, I would have thought Cantor would have done a better job checking his facts.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-09-14
Summary: "First Rate"

My order arrived in a timely manner, in the condition ("NEW") promised. In addition to being an enjoyable read, the experience with Amazon was first-rate!