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The 1962 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball. The team finished tied for third place in the American League with a record of 85–76, 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 games behind the New York Yankees .
The 1962 major league baseball season began on April 9, 1962. ... Detroit Tigers: Detroit, Michigan: Tiger Stadium: 52,850 Bob Scheffing: Kansas City Athletics:
1962 Detroit Tigers season – The Tigers compiled an 85–76 record and finished in a tie for third place in the American League under manager Bob Scheffing. The team's statistical leaders included Norm Cash (39 home runs), Rocky Colavito (112 RBIs), Al Kaline (.304 batting average), and Jim Bunning (19 wins). [2]
Richard Joseph Tracewski (born February 3, 1935), nicknamed "Trixie", is an American former baseball player, coach, and manager.During his playing career, he was an infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball, appearing in 614 games over eight seasons, from 1962 to 1969.
On June 25, 1962, the Tigers traded Maxwell to the Chicago White Sox. Maxwell had a late season revival with the White Sox in 1962. By the third week of August, Maxwell was batting .352 for Chicago, and had a 13-game hitting streak, the team's longest that year. Maxwell wound up hitting .296 for the White Sox in 1962 with nine home runs.
Virgil became the first nonwhite Detroit Tigers player when he joined the team in 1958 via trade, 11 years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. He was the Tigers' first Latino ...
Thomas Wayne Fletcher (June 28, 1942 – May 9, 2018) was an American professional baseball player and former Major League pitcher, a left-hander who appeared in one game with the Detroit Tigers in 1962. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he was a 1962 College Baseball All-America Team selection.
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) April 20, 2024 Had Torkelson, worth minus-11 DRS last season, turned the double play in the fifth inning, the Tigers and Twins would have been tied, 2-2, after seven ...