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 ...

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 ...

They overanalyze nowadays." Lolich said a pitcher's true skill becomes evident when they're "tired," because it forces them to "become a pitcher." Today's baseball metrics are said to be sure ...

Mickey Lolich: (Laughing) Well ... Lolich: I’ve been out of baseball for a few years and from talking to people, I’d start telling people baseball stories, and I’d get “You ought to ...

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 ...

Online sports Pitcher Mickey Lolich and catcher Bill Freehan set ... Predictably, the book mostly stuck to mundane baseball stuff. Wainwright earned $19.5 million in base salary at his peak ...

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 ...

Rewrite the history books, Major League Baseball. St. Louis Cardinals pitcher ... breaking the major league mark set by Detroit’s Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan from 1963-1975.