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...Connie Mack was selling players and Detroit needed a new manager. Owner Frank J. Navin called in Sportswriter H. G. Salsinger of the Detroit News and said: "I can get Babe Ruth from the Yankees for practically nothing or Mickey Cochrane for $100,000. Which would you take...
...Owner Navin's first move was to buy Cochrane. his next to insure his life for $100.000. Manager Cochrane's first move was to buy Outfielder Leon ("Goose") Goslin from the Washington Senators. The semi-miraculous feat of winning a pennant in his first year as manager he then performed with a team otherwise unchanged from the one that had finished fifth the year before...
...look like. Detroit has lately been a baseball-minded city but this summer it passed all bounds in agitation. Eleven reporters traveled with the team. On a rainy day, one paper ran a four-column picture of Schoolboy Rowe glancing out of the window. Season's attendance at Navin Field has been over 1,000,000 this year, more than twice that of 1933. In the De Soto factory, radios were tuned in on the Tigers' games every afternoon for inspiration...
...week for the 17th "Muny" opening there were 10,000 ardent spectators, a new producer, a new operetta and a new lighting system. The new producer was Broadway's smart Laurence Schwab (Good News, New Moon), successor to J. J. Shubert who has taken the "Muny" idea to Navin Field, Detroit. The new operetta was Teresina, a confection by Vienna's old Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier). At a cost of $25,000 two giant towers had been built to flank the big revolving stage, flood it with light, support an over-head bridge which provides more lights...
First Game. A jubilant crowd of 45,000, eager to see the city's first pennant-winning team in 25 years, crowded into Detroit's Navin Field. Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, promptly punctured their excitement. While he was allowing Detroit's Tigers eight hits, his teammate Joseph ("Ducky-Wucky") Medwick made three singles and a homerun that helped the Cardinals...