jokingly replied, "What if I told you I didn't follow baseball?" After a few moments of fielding Tigers- and American League Central-related questions, Lolich, one of the premier players in Tigers ...

Mickey Lolich cemented his place in Detroit Tigers ... “Every time I played Detroit I had to face the son of a bitch,” Jackson told Baseball Digest in 2014. “His fastball could knock your ...

COMSTOCK PARK — Look up any list with Mickey Lolich’s name on it and ... I’ll say yes,” Lolich said. “Baseball is going to change back to the old ways. Now we’ve got all these seventh ...

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1967: Mickey Lolich #29 of the Detroit Tigers pitches during an Major League Baseball game circa 1967. Lolich played for the Tiger from 1963-75. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty ...

1) Mickey Lolich had to be bribed to spend a season ... They were on their way to catacombs, baseball’s abyss, whatever you want to call it, in 1979. They were brutal. And unlike Lolich a ...

The 84-year-old Lolich spent 16 years in the big leagues ... and by following us on Twitter @FastballFN. Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the ...

But by the middle of the fifth game, the Tigers looked like sure losers. Portly Mickey Lolich, their only Series winner, was laboring on the short end of a 3-2 score; he seemed ready to take the ...