Delmon Young became a Tiger on
August 15 of this year. He has hit four homers already and is batting .324 as a
left fielder. He started his major league career with Tampa Bay. After having
some issues in the minors he ended up second in Rookie of the Year voting in
2007. His brother is Dmitri Young who played for the Tigers from 2002 through
2006. Delmon’s contract is up at the end of this season. He is making $5.38M
this year and will likely command that much plus next year.
George Lombard came to the Tigers in June of 2002 after a
trade by the Braves fro Kris Keller. In
his three years with Atlanta he hit .157 in 39 games as a reserve
outfielder. For Detroit in 2002 he was
the main center fielder for the second half of the season. It was a rough season for the Tigers. George hit .241 that season with 5 homers in
270 plate appearances. He was waved
before the 2003 season started and was signed by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. His final season in the majors was 2006 when
he played 20 games for the Washington Nationals. His final season if pro ball was 2009 when he
was in the Indians minor league system.
Jerry Don Gleaton pitched two years for the Tigers. The lefty was a reliever in 1990 and 1991 for
Detroit after 9 seasons spanning 11 years in the majors for the Rangers,
Mariners, White Sox and Royals before joining Detroit. He had his best year in Detroit and maybe in
his career in 1990 when he was 1-3 but with a 2.94 ERA and with 13 saves. The following year he went 3-2 but his ERA
jumped up to 4.06 and he only made 2 saves.
At the end of the season he was granted free agency and signed by the
Royals but was released after opening day and before he got in a game. He then signed with the Pirates where he made
his last major league appearance.
Icehouse Wilson made his major league debut as a Tiger in
the great Tiger year of 1934. His real
name was George Peacock Wilson. He came
to Detroit by way of the Sioux City Cowboys where he had made his profession
debut. In 42 games he hit .197. For some reason the Tigers brought him to
Detroit and he made his major league debut as a pinch hitter for pitcher Luke
Hamlin in the 9th inning of an 11-3 game against the St. Louis
Browns and their pitcher Ivy Andrews. I
would like to report that Icehouse hit a 8 run walk off homer to win the
game. But I can’t. He made the first out of the inning and the
Tigers did not score. Icehouse was done
in baseball after that one at bat.
Henry Luff was member of the 1882 Detroit Wolverines. He was born before the Civil War in 1852 in
Philadelphia. He had played one season
prior in the majors for the 1875 New Haven Elm Cities of the National
Association. He hit .271 that season,
his highest of his career. He played in
the minors for Rochester, the Pittsburgh Allegheny, Philadelphia Athletics and
the Brooklyn Atlantics before making it up to the National League with the
Wolverines in 1882. He only made it into
3 games for the Wolverines going 3 for 11 and scoring a run. He left the Wolverines and went to Cincinnati
to finish the season with the Red Stockings and played first base for
them. He went on to play for the
Brooklyn Greys in the minors and the Louisville Eclipse, Philadelphia Keystones
and Kansas City Cowboys in the majors before finally ending up with the Augusta
Browns of the Southern Association in 1885.
He died back in Philly in prior to the US involvement in World War I in
1916 at the age of 64.
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