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Detroit Tigers

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My brother-in-law is a sports fantantic. He once worked front office for the Detroit Tigers baseball team. His wife thought this would be a terrific book for his recent birthday. Although, I have not heard from him since he received the gift, I believe he enjoyed the book.

Fred Lieb originally wrote this team history of the Detroit Tigers during the mid-1940s and that's the style of the book. If you want to read antidotes about the Tigers history written in the style you'd expect in the 1910s, 1920s or even 1930s, you will enjoy this book. After all, Lieb wrote about baseball during that era, and, obviously, his writing style matches that.
What I love about the book is that it's a pretty detailed history of baseball in Detroit from the late 1800s until ONLY 1945. It's 294 pages of history. Today, a book like this would include those seasons and about 60 more, meaning you couldn't get that detail. Also, this guy lived it (or at least was living at the time) instead of just researching those years. If you want a historical account of the Tigers with some nice stories of the Tigers from WW2 and earlier, it's a must get.