Bengal Alphabetics

[soberdennis]

How about some Tigers. A to Z. Skip q,u, and x. Once you get to z, start over again. First and last names okay.
I'll start with Hank Aguirre

[racosun]

Dave Bergman

[soberdennis]

Tyrus Raymond Cobb-greatest tiger of them all.

[JohnGelnarFan]

D

Pat Dobson

[soberdennis]

Eddie Brinkman

[Francoeurstein]

I thought it was the football team!!! I AM A HUGE BENGALS FAN!!!!

Anyways:

Fernando Rodney

[soberdennis]

Hank Greenberg

[Chisox73]

Willie Horton

[soberdennis]

Mike Ivie.
This letter usually requires research and will usually be closed early.

[Chisox73]

Ruppet Jones

[JohnGelnarFan]

K

Mike Kilkenny

[ACrank]

Mickey Lolich

[Chisox73]

Jack Morris

[2Chance]

Matt Nokes

[soberdennis]

Ray Oyler-from the 68 champs.

[Tigersfan91]

Dan Petry.

[soberdennis]

Skipping q
Paul Richards

[ACrank]

Sam Crawford

[soberdennis]

Alan Trammell

[riverfrontier]

Ugueth Urbina

[soberdennis]

Vic Wertz is my V

[Gee Walker]

Lou Whitaker - deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

[JohnGelnarFan]

Y

Tom Yewcic

[soberdennis]

George Zuverink-a pitcher in the 50's

[JohnGelnarFan]

A

Dale Alexander - 137 RBI's as a rookie!

[bake mcbride]

B

Barbaro Garbey.

Batted .287 in 110 games for one of the greatest single-season teams in baseball history, the '84 Tigers.

[soberdennis]

Mickey Cochrane

[Gee Walker]

Denny McLain

[ACrank]

Does Ernie Harwell count?

[soberdennis]

Does Ernie Harwell count?
I never really thought about Harwell, who is as much a part of Tiger lore as Ty Cobb. Why not. I'll accept him unless someone else objects.
I believe someone posted Vin Scully on the Dodger thread.
That in Mind, I'll continue with Fred Hutchinson

[ACrank]

Kirk Gibson

[Gee Walker]

Guillermo "Willie" Hernandez

[ACrank]

One time Tiger player and current AA hitting coach - Pete Incaviglia

[George & Al]

Damian Jackson :crazy

[2Chance]

Eric King, pitcher from the late 80s and 1992

[racosun]

Chet Lemon, who made one of the most spectacular catches I've ever seen, knocking himself out on top of the old Tiger Stadium bullpen.

[ACrank]

Bill Mad Dog Madlock

[Chisox73]

Jim Northrup

[Gee Walker]

Ben Oglivie

[ACrank]

Jim Perry - otherwise known as Gaylord's brother

[soberdennis]

Rudy York is my R

[Captain Cold Nose]

S was a tough choice, but I'll go with Kevin "Hot Sauce" Saucier for now.

[soberdennis]

Virgil "fire" Trucks- 2 of his 5 wins one year were nonos

[Captain Cold Nose]

Virgil "fire" Trucks- 2 of his 5 wins one year were nonos
U for hot starting Pat Underwood, who started 5-0 one year, finished 6-4 (or something like that) and pretty much disappeared.

[soberdennis]

Darn, this would be great for Trucks, but I already used him.
Booby Veach made up 1/3 of a pretty good outfield with Cobb and Crawford.

[Captain Cold Nose]

The only autographed bat I own was signed by John Wockenfuss.

[ACrank]

Dmitri Young

[2Chance]

Zeb "Red" Eaton pitched for the Tigers in 1944-45.

He ended up 4-2 career with a 4.44 ERA.

[racosun]

Doyle Alexander, who went 9-0 with a 1.53 ERA for us in 1987 after being traded for John Smoltz.

[ACrank]

Gates Brown - i don't know why but for some reason he was one of my favorite players of that Era of Tiger History

[Captain Cold Nose]

Gates Brown - i don't know why but for some reason he was one of my favorite players of that Era of Tiger History
He's a local product and a good guy.
Enos Cabell.

[racosun]

Dave Dombrowski, who's leading a storied franchise back to glory.

[soberdennis]

Played on the 68 team at the end of a HOF career-Eddie Matthews.

[Captain Cold Nose]

Played on the 68 team at the end of a HOF career-Eddie Matthews.
The star during Sparky's swan song years, Travis Fryman.

[Gee Walker]

Sparky's super-sub outfielder: Johnny Grubb

[soberdennis]

War time star Hal Newhouser. hasd some decent years after the war,too.

[racosun]

Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, the player who most helped in turning around the Tigers lately.

[soberdennis]

Joe Sparma

[Captain Cold Nose]

Rusty Kuntz.

[racosun]

Larry Herndon, who hit 107 career home runs. Of those 107 bombs, 43 of them came in his first two years with the Tigers, '82 and '83. He never hit more than 12 in any other season...talk about juicing! J/K

[Gee Walker]

Dick McAuliffe, the best leadoff hitter in the AL in the 60's.

[Tigersfan91]

Jim Northrup

[soberdennis]

Charlie O'Leary from the 07-09 champs

[JohnGelnarFan]

P

Bubba Phillips

[racosun]

Dave Rozema, who had a pretty good rookie year back in '77 (15-7, 3.10 ERA in 218 innings).

[nosoupforyou]

Sparky Anderson

[soberdennis]

Tommy Tresh

[CanadianKid]

Ugeth Urbina

[racosun]

Justin Verlander, the Tiger candidate for Rookie of the Year in 2006.

[CanadianKid]

Willie Horton

[soberdennis]

Rudy York- could hit that ball a country mile.

[JohnGelnarFan]

Z

Gus Zernial

[soberdennis]

Somehow we have forgotten Al Kaline.

[CanadianKid]

Brandon Inge

[Mr. Met]

In 1961 Norm Cash & Rocky Colavita had more combined RBIs than Mickey Mantle & Roger Maris. :crazy

[racosun]

Darrell Evans, who led the league in homers with 40 in his second year with the Tigers.

[Gee Walker]

Hoot Evers, outfielder for some good teams in the late 40's and early 50's.

[nosoupforyou]

Damion Easley, last Tiger to hit for the cycle.

[soberdennis]

We just had two E's. I guess that happens a lot when people are posting simutaneously.
The Yankee Killer-Frank Lary.

[CanadianKid]

Curtis Granderson

[racosun]

Shane Halter, perhaps the most overpaid Tiger of all-time.

[moldyoldie]

Omar Infante

[CanadianKid]

Jack Morris

[Tigers4ever]

George Kell

[racosun]

Wil Ledezma, who got his first win of the season today over the Cardinals.

[soberdennis]

George Mullin-early ace.

[Gee Walker]

Joe Niekro, who we let go before he got to be a good pitcher.

[nosoupforyou]

Oscar Stanage

[OldEnglishD]

Lance Parrish

[CanadianKid]

skipping Q, Kenny Rogers

[Captain Cold Nose]

Dan Schatzeder.

I still have a couple U's left, so I won't ignore that letter for the time being.

[Tigers4ever]

Alan Trammell

[Captain Cold Nose]

Jerry Udjur

[Tigers4ever]

Vic Wertz.

[CanadianKid]

Vance Wilson

[Gee Walker]

Early 60's relief ace, Terry Fox

I couldn't resist trying to get an "x" in there somehow.

[nosoupforyou]

Esteban [B]Yan

[racosun]

Joel "should be the closer" Zumaya, the best Tigers rookie I've seen in a long time.

[soberdennis]

Aurelio Rodriguez-Bengal answer to Brooks.

[CanadianKid]

Brandon Inge

[Captain Cold Nose]

Second player drafted Tony Clark.

[soberdennis]

Wild Bill Donovan

[Tigersfan91]

Eugene Kingsale.

[soberdennis]

The big guy-Cecil Fielder

[CanadianKid]

Carlos Guillien

[Gee Walker]

Hall of Famer, four-time batting champ Harry Heilmann.

Extra point for two H's?

[racosun]

Brandon Inge, who says he loves the fans but ignores them anyways.

[nosoupforyou]

Jason Johnson

[soberdennis]

1953 ROY and part of one of the most controversial trades ever-Harvey Kuenn

[racosun]

Luis Gonzalez, who went on to drive in the World Series-winning run for the Diamondbacks after leaving Motown.

[soberdennis]

CF turned SS for 68 WS Mickey Stanley

[nosoupforyou]

Jim Northrup

[racosun]

Omar Infante, who is still a very young guy with plenty of big-league experience.

[soberdennis]

Dean Palmer

[racosun]

Fernando Rodney, who picked up the loss today @ Oakland.

[nosoupforyou]

Sam Crawford

[moldyoldie]

Tom Tresh...former Rookie of the Year who came back home to finish his career with the Tigers after several seasons with some good and not-so-good Yankees teams.

[soberdennis]

Tom Veryzer

[racosun]

Rondell White, who is currently in the Twins' farm system, rehabbing something.