... the World Series team over the All Star Team. He owned the Tigers for twenty-three years and, again, the team that could win read more...

... a couple of times, because he was the owner of the Detroit Tigers, I said who would actually win in a matchup between the read more...

... he faced enormous health problems. When he sold the Tigers, in the fall of 1983, opening day of 1984, he came down read more...

... yoga). As a bonus, Tom had been a lifelong diehard Detroit Tigers baseball fan. ----- Louis Leeburg, (BA accounting) who had ... baseball book’. Former Detroit sports writer and Detroit Tigers Executive Dan Ewald was hired to write the book. Entitled read more...

Category: Trust Histories

... and I also had been a sports fan all my life, big Detroit Tigers fan. My mother listened to all the Tigers' games on the ... about it every morning over breakfast. And also to watch Tigers games and Michigan football games, to do the sports thing read more...

... known not as a media mogul, but as the owner of the Detroit Tigers baseball team for almost 30 years, beginning in 1956. By ... to organize an eleven-man syndicate to purchase the Detroit Tigers baseball team, which he did in 1956. Over the next five read more...

John and Me March 09, 2020

... bonus, I'd grown up as a fanatical fan of John's Detroit Tigers baseball club ... my fandom began in earnest just as John ... sole owner in the mid 1950s. My mom never, ever missed a Tigers game on the radio in the years I was alive. So ... John and read more...

Category: Trustee Memos
Trustee Panel Discussion 2012 February 06, 2013

... here was somebody 79 years of age, who owned the Detroit Tigers, who was an entrepreneur in the broadcasting industry, but ... was just getting going. He took over sole ownership of the Tigers at 58 years old. So when he was 60, when he was our age, he read more...

... later (1956) it came to pass. He purchased the Detroit Tigers Baseball Company. Twelve years later, in 1968, they would read more...

Memorial Trust History April 28, 2020

... yoga). As a bonus, Tom had been a lifelong diehard Detroit Tigers baseball fan. ----- Louis Leeburg, (BA accounting) who had ... baseball book’. Former Detroit sports writer and Detroit Tigers Executive Dan Ewald was hired to write the book. Entitled read more...