The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Mark Fidrych http://annarborchronicle.com it's like being there Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:59:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Column: Remembering The Bird http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/04/16/column-remembering-the-bird/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=column-remembering-the-bird http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/04/16/column-remembering-the-bird/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:56:36 +0000 Paul Bancel http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=18548 Somedays, one cannot get enough news about a certain event and even though The Chronicle doesn’t have a “sports section,” I was looking for one last tidbit before hitting the sack.

I know for a fact that most of your readers who at one time in their lives traded baseball cards remember the Bird. 1976 is just around the corner in the memories of many of us.

I was living in San Francisco at the time and freezing at the ball games at Candlestick, but out of the fog, through the times zones, came the Bird and he put Detroit on the baseball map and he made me wish that I was back in the Midwest where real baseball was played on warm balmy nights in the summer.

He was only 21.

[Editor's note: Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, a former All Star pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, died on Monday at his home in Massachusetts.]

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