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Friday in Detroit: Happy Opening Day!
(DETROIT, Mich.) Hello and welcome to this Friday's edition of the Detroit Daily Round-Up. The best day of the week is finally here — I hope everyone has a great weekend and gets a chance to enjoy the return of Tigers baseball!
Detroit Daily Round-Up 3/11: St. Patrick's Day Parade returns to Detroit this weekend, Tigers baseball back on and more
(DETROIT, Mich.) Hello and welcome to this Thursday's edition of the Detroit Daily Round-Up. The best day of the week is finally here — I hope everyone has a great weekend!. Today is Friday, March 11, let's check out Detroit's biggest stories of the day.
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What's Spring Training Like In Lakeland? Let's Find Out!
In light of MLB and the MLBPA returning to the negotiation table last week, the eyes of many in the baseball community have been focused on the ongoing MLB lockout. But in Arizona and Florida, baseball fans have already begun to prepare for Spring Training. This past week, many MLB teams began to sell tickets, even though they are not legally allowed to include any players in promotional materials as long as the lockout continues, and at least one Spring Training ballparkhosted a job fairto fill positions in the stadium.
The Record of 12 Hits in a Row Was Reached on July 15, 1952
Walt Dropo, then with the Detroit Tigers, tied a record with 12 hits in a row.Bowman Gum. Does any individual achievement deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak? Given that nobody before or after his 1941 record has come near it, the answer is clearly "no." Yet of all the multi-game records of shorter duration, another far less heralded feat continues to stand the test of time.