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

... deep love for the ability of man to express himself in the game of baseball, not simply as a competitive sport, but as a ... complement to our conduct. John Fetzer owned the Detroit Tigers but, as he would say, he was the guardian of a team, not read more...

... extensive reform. Therefore, this is more than a numbers game which is so often the case with genealogies. It is an ... are given of Anabaptist families, including the Wengers, Reutigers and Ebys who were among the first arrivals. We believe read more...

... himself to the presidency and ownership of the Detroit Tigers in the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs. I ... Angus cattle and registered quarter horses. He enjoyed big game hunting in Colorado and Wyoming and made photography his read more...

... treasuries and lending back to them. It’s just a shell game in many respects. Larry Sure. Tom The banks don’t have to ... Monday night group, and that had to be after he sold the Tigers, but probably it was in the springtime. I remember the read more...

Category: Oral Histories

... end effect of truth. Saved his life not to own the Detroit Tigers and not to become a multi-zillionaire, but saved his life ... Hattie John's mom. Fred was a baseball fan, and got Tiger game updates by Morse code over the system. Using the Western read more...

Tom Beaver Oral History 1 of 9 December 10, 2017

... know. BRUCE FETZER: Mm-hmm. TOM BEAVER: I won the All-Star Game as a winning pitcher in the All-Star Game one year and the ... There was a Muskegon, Michigan, station that carried the Tigers that was a lot better broadcast but not for night games. At read more...

Tom Beaver Oral History 2 of 9 December 10, 2017

... day went, plus we watched University of Michigan football games. Lots of Tigers games, of course. And while Rhea was alive ... down with pneumonia in, uh, late summer of '89, when the Tigers put on a softball benefit game at Western Michigan, Waldo read more...

... than the pop? Jim No, the pop was just kind of a game that John and I had. Larry Oh okay, that’s ... Do you know this Mark ‘The Bird Fidr ych ? The Tigers had a baseball player who was a pitcher back in the 70’s . read more...

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