R.I.P. Al Kaline
Posted: April 7, 2020 Filed under: 20th Century, 21st Century | Tags: Al Kaline, All-Star Game, Baseball, Detroit Tigers, Gold Glove Award, Major League Baseball, MLB, National Baseball Hall of Fame, sports 1 CommentNicknamed “Mr. Tiger,” Al Kaline played the entirety of his 22-year Major League career with the Detroit Tigers. Kaline won ten Gold Gloves as a right fielder and was an eighteen-time All Star. He collected 3,007 hits, 399 home runs, and 1,583 RBIs in his career and finished with a lifetime batting average of .297 in 2,837 games played.
Al Kaline was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980. He passed away yesterday, April 6, 2020, at the age of 85.
Al Kaline in 1957 (Wikimedia Commons)
Another childhood hero gone. RIP