- Description
- The editor of Detroit Athletic Co. blog, Dan Holmes is the author of Ty Cobb: A Biography. He previously worked for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY, and worked for Major League Baseball as a web producer. He contributed to Sock it to 'Em Tigers: The Incredible Story of the 1968 Detroit Tigers, and Deadball Stars of the American League. Follow him on Twitter at @thedanholmes or visit his personal blog at danholmes.com.
![This summer has been one to remember for Jack Morris. On July 29 he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. This past weekend his #47 was retired by […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/jack-morris-detroit-tigers-hall-of-fame-115x115.png "Top 10 Moments in career of Hall of Famer Jack Morris")
![The Detroit Tigers are one year into their rebuild. Last summer the team dumped right fielder J.D. Martinez in a move that signaled the franchise was waving the white flag […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ron-gardenhire-joe-jimenez-2018-detroit-tigers-115x115.png "Half measures won’t help the Tigers get back on the winning side")
![They say timing is everything. In regards to the Hall of Fame chances for three former Tiger teammates that’s definitely true. Jack Morris and Alan Trammell are Hall of Famers. […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/alan-trammell-lou-whitaker-115x115.png "Timing worked for Tram and Morris, against Sweet Lou")
![When we talk about the best trades in the history of the Detroit Tigers, a few quickly come to mind. Steve Demeter for Norm Cash. Steve Kemp for Chet Lemon. […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/carlos-guillen-shortstop-detroit-tigers-115x115.png "Guillen was one of the best deals the Tigers ever made")
![When he was growing up as one of ten children in Washington D.C. in the first decade of the twentieth century, Luzerne Blue was a huge baseball nut. At that […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/lu-blue-detroit-news-115x115.jpg "Lu Blue went from fan to teammate of Ty Cobb")
![Next month two former Tigers will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Jack Morris and Alan Trammell, key members of the 1984 World Champions, will earn their […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/whitaker-freehan-veach-lolich-detroit-tigers-115x115.png "Four More Tigers for the Hall of Fame")
![The first time Buddy Bell sat down in his office he opened a drawer in Sparky Anderson’s desk and it fell apart. “Sparky had this old desk that must have […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/buddy-bell-1996-detroit-tigers-115x115.jpg "When Buddy Bell tried to fill Sparky’s shoes in Trammell’s final season")
![Miguel Cabrera will miss the rest of 2018, his 16th season in the major leagues. The injury is the death blow to the Detroit Tigers, a team that waved the […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/migeul-cabrera-2017-detroit-tigers-115x115.png "Playing the right way is catching up to Miguel Cabrera")
![Anyone who ever heard Sparky Anderson talk knows he was not shy in sharing his opinion. You also remember that he was passionate about the game of baseball. We lost […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sparky-anderson-quotes-115x115.png "14 amazing things Sparky Anderson actually said")
![Last offseason Michael Fulmer took time off from plumbing (his normal winter occupation) and had surgery on his pitching arm. Thus far his progress from that procedure has been slow. […]](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/michael-fulmer-detroit-tigers-115x115.jpg "Why the Tigers will trade Michael Fulmer")