MLB: Detroit Tigers retire Jim Leyland’s No. 10 jersey
Former Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland had his number retired on Saturday.
Jim Leyland was honored to retire his No. 10 overall jersey with the Detroit Tigers on Saturday. He managed the Bristol Tigers of the Apallatian League in 1971.
Detroit -Jim Leyland’s N ° 10 retired from Detroit Tigers, whitening the name and number of the prestigious temple manager on the brick wall next to the winner of the World Series’ Spark Anderson. “When I look at that wall and see my name up there among all the Tigers greats, it’s unbelievable,” Leyland said during pregame ceremonies Saturday night before Detroit’s game against Kansas City and the Royals.
After driving slowly in his white Corvette, Leyland arrived at the on-field presentation and was given the opportunity to wave to fans along the third base line from the foul pole to the right of the Detroit dugout. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame last December, two weeks before his 79th birthday, and last month became the 23rd manager inducted.
Leyland won 1,769 regular-season games in 22 seasons, including a 700-597 record from 2006-13 with the Tigers. He led Detroit to the World Series in 2006, his first season as manager, and in 2012, when the team won its second of four straight AL Central titles.
He began his managerial career in 1971 as captain of the Bristol Tigers of the Appalachian League. “Jim Leyland came to the Tigers at the perfect time,” said Todd Jones, a Tigers coach and Leyland’s closest teammate in 2006. Ilitch invested in Padge Rodriguez and then Magglio Ordonez. Then he hired Jim Leyland to bring together a group of people who, for the most part, weren’t making much money. »
“He was a calming presence in the locker room for the players at that time, and that’s what we needed.”
But going into the 2006 season, Leyland believed the Tigers needed something more.
He was so angry with his team after losing a home game before heading out on the road that he yelled at them so loudly that reporters outside the clubhouse could hear him. “The men don’t respect other coaches. He didn’t intend to endure it,” Jones recalls. “He said:” You earn all the money, you have all the glories, but I have a card card, and if you do it with my coach, You won’t do it if you’re not a game. ”
THREE -Time Manager of the Year coaches Pittsburg, Florida and Colorado, supporting Marlins in 1997 in the World Series. He led Team USA in 2017 when the Americans won their only World Baseball Classic title.
The Tigers also retired Nos. 1 (Lou Whitaker), 2 (Charles Gehringer), 3 (Alan Trammell), 5 (Hank Greenberg), 6 (Al Kaline), 11 (Anderson), 16 (Hal Newhouser), 23 (Willie Horton) and 47 (Jack Morris).
Whitaker and Trammell played for the Bristol Tigers, while Horton was born in Wise County, Virginia.
Jackie Robinson’s number was retired throughout the major leagues in 1997 and his No. 42 is next to Anderson and Leyland beyond the right-field seats in Comerica Park.