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now with K line of Detroit who won the
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1955 America League batting title at the
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age of 20. the youngest player ever to
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win this Championship Al Carolina
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retaliers for Detroit in the fourth
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inning his long drive clears the barrier
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in left Center it looks good to the
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Tigers after winning their first five
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games they went into a batting slump and
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began to lose games just as fast
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and the Americans get back into the game
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when Al k-line of the Tigers hammers a
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two-run homer off the Milwaukee pitcher
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exciting youngster who went straight
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from the sandlots to right field on the
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yes these are your Tigers a Brash young
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crew of coming stars who will fight for
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every game and every pennant
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Airline helped preserve that margin in
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the last half of the sixth when he makes
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a leaping catch off the bat of chain
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Dean in the right field wall
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hayline follows with a single to Center
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scoring both Paris and McDougall
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with one out LK line comes to the plate
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and the veteran Detroit star comes
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through with a line shop for another
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single that puts Killebrew on second
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Al K line playing in his first World
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Series with one out and his team
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trailing by one run he's the man on the
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spot cats one and one and k-line Loops a
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hit in the right center in comes
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to send the goose pickles off my back
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and I was tremendous thrilled to think
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that I was able to uh do something for
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the fans after all these years and now
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faces a veteran alkaline
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now Lions a double down the left field
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Detroit Detroit south k-line opens a
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seventh with a clean single to left
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Center the Tigers come alive again
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hayline lines of singular Center scoring
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the call up and sending Stanley to Third
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Ron Willis relieves Jaster the faces are
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loaded again as k-line gets his second
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single of the inning and two more runs
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famed number six LK line connects for a
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his first World Series home run
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Steve Carlton facing k-line in the fifth
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and Al connects for his second World
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Series Homer but the Tigers hardly need
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the tigers are the new world champion
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well it's a big throw and uh we've been
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waiting a long time everybody in Detroit
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I have and it's a tremendous feeling and
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nothing nothing surprises me the way our
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ball Club plays it was a typical Tiger
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game come come and win it in the late
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Innings and it's just fantastic
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everybody has done so much to help the
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ball club with a score still American
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League four national league three
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Hometown favorite LK line leading off
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and there's a line drive single
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oh okay line staying here connecting for
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career HIP number 3000 offered truth
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that the big stars could shine at dream
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game time too k-line's All-Star
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statistics display an impressive 343
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batting average in 16 appearances one of
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the 10 men in the history of the Hall of
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Fame to be inducted in the first year he
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was eligible to be voted in you can be
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sure that I will make every effort to
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live up to the obligations associated
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with this honor thank you
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the retiring of the number of alkaline I
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was one of the luckiest major league
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baseball players ever to have lived
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for being able to spend my entire
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22-year career here in a tiger uniform
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as I assure you that never will I
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the tiger uniform number six which you
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have graciously bestowed upon me today I
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thank you and my family thank you