 
Jiminnm
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Username: Jiminnm
Post Number: 1101
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 9:00 pm: |    |
These are some slides that I took On August 28, 1980, one of the last games pitched by Mark Fidrych.
The Bird himself.
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Jiminnm
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Username: Jiminnm
Post Number: 1102
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 9:03 pm: | |
A few more.
Steve Kemp in left
The entertaining grounds crew
Peters hopes to score from 3rd, and does
Whitaker and Trammell, it didn't get any better
The Tigers did win 11-7 over the Brewers. |
Eastside
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Username: Eastside
Post Number: 931
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 9:10 pm: | |
Great pics. Now that's a ballpark! |
Kenp
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Username: Kenp
Post Number: 114
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 09, 2006 - 5:06 pm: | |
great pics, brings back memories. Poor Mark, they found out later he had a torn rotator cuff. |
Rjk
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Username: Rjk
Post Number: 528
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 09, 2006 - 5:31 pm: | |
I saw him over a week ago at an appearance he was doing at Meijer. I believe he made it to around 4 or 5 of their stores.
I caught a foul ball at Comerica this past spring and it now has Mark Fidrych "The Bird" written on it. |
Zephyrprocess
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Username: Zephyrprocess
Post Number: 69
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 11:19 am: | |
I went to Chicago the 2nd weekend in August to see the Tigers-White Sox series. Before I left town, I drove by Wrigley too, and in the neighborhood I stubled upon a shop named "Strange Cargo" with racks and racks of overstock t-shirts and four walls full of iron-on transfers.
To my overwhelmingly pleasurable surprise, I found they had a transfer of "The Bird's the Word" with the Big Bird-like caricature. I think it was originally in the Freep, backintheday.
Of course I wore the shirt to all the subsequent games I went to this summer. On the last day of the regular season, the fellow at the ticket office said Fidrych was in the stadium that day, so I held a glimmer of hope I might get it signed, but no... |
Lurker
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Username: Lurker
Post Number: 1686
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 12:16 pm: | |
The owner of Strange Cargo is from Detroit. |
Michmeister
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Username: Michmeister
Post Number: 5
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 3:27 pm: | |
Wasn`t that the iron-on with big bird throwing right-handed but with the right-footed leg-kick that they corrected the next day? |
Zephyrprocess
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Username: Zephyrprocess
Post Number: 121
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 10:50 pm: | |
Precisely, Michmeister! |