Has Everybody Heard, About the Bird? The Freep's Michael Rosenberg takes a fond look back at Detroit Tiger phenom Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. In the summer of 1976, the Tiger rookie talked to the ball and generally out-crazied the rest of baseball on his way to a 19-9 season. In addition to looking back, Rosenberg also talks to Fidrych - and even gets the definitive word on the talking to the ball thing. Read MICHAEL ROSENBERG: The spirit of '76 in the Detroit Free Press Tiger Tales has a cool Fidrych diary Mark "The Bird" Fidrych at Wikipedia has the Sports Illustrated Big Bird cover Posted/updated Jul 25, 2006 by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan) click to Send This Story to a Friend! Main Michigan News Page Go Back One Page

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