Jim Leyland – Baseball by The Letters https://www.baseballbytheletters.com Hand-written memories from those who lived The Game! Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:06:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 22759191 When former Tigers manager Jim Leyland wrote https://www.baseballbytheletters.com/2015/03/02/when-former-tigers-manager-jim-leyland-wrote/ https://www.baseballbytheletters.com/2015/03/02/when-former-tigers-manager-jim-leyland-wrote/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:41:00 +0000 http://www.baseballbytheletters.com/2015/03/02/when-former-tigers-manager-jim-leyland-wrote/ Read more]]> I love this 2011 pre-game look at Leyland
at Dodger Stadium. What is he seeing?
What is he thinking?  
 By Cbl62 (Own work)
 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)],
via Wikimedia Commons

No, not to me.

A former player, Jordan Tata, shared this written memory online earlier this week. 
Epic stuff!
At last check on the always-impressive www.sportscollectors.net, the fabled Detroit Tigers manager was batting .720. Or, he had responded to 351 autograph requests in 486 attempts.

Thanks to Carol Sheldon for capturing this correspondence!

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