Cardboard Tigers: Sutherland, Thompson, Timmerman

Fifteenth in an occasional series. Collect ’em all! I’m working through a stack of Tigers baseball cards from the late 1960s and early 1970s, with occasional newer cards. Gary Sutherland leads off this edition of Cardboard Tigers. Sutherland played mostly second base from 1966 to 1978 for seven teams, including the Tigers from 1974 to […]

Cardboard Tigers: Arroyo, Bare, and Brinkman

Second in an ongoing series. Two fairly obscure Tigers today plus “Steady Eddie.” This is Fernando Arroyo, sporting the Tigers’ old double-knit pullover road jerseys. Fernando looks very serious in this photo. He was a 6’2″ right-handed starter who was drafted by the Tigers in the eleventh round in 1970, then spent the next six […]

Cardboard Tigers: The Managers

First in a series. I just pulled out a bunch of my old baseball cards. I was fortunate enough to not have them thrown out by my mom in some year’s spring cleaning. So I have all of them and they’re in excellent shape considering almost all of them are over forty years old. And […]