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They used to be scattered all over the state, particularly in the tri-county area. The tony suburbs of Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills were popular for them, but towns like Washington and Livonia were home to some of them as well. Theirs was a time when you not only played baseball for the Detroit Tigers, you stuck around to experience our winter months, too. They weren’t commuters. The Tigers’ roster, when it contained names like Horton and Stanley and Lolich and Kaline, was liberally spread with guys who called Michigan home year-round. Mickey Lolich lived in Washington, Michigan for most of the time that he pitched for the Tigers, and it took me until my grown-up years to finally learn that Washington was in northern Macomb County. Al Kaline, though a Baltimore kid, made t ...

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