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Wrestling th Tiger...
DETROIT--And the windup, and the pitch...He swings--a line shot, base hit! Right field. The tigers win it. The Tigers win it! Here comes Kaline to score. And it's all over! Don Wert has singled. The tigers mob Don. The Fans are streaming onto the field, and the Tigers have won their first pennant since nineteen hundred and forty-five. Let's listen to the bedlam here in Tiger Stadium. Oh, what a moment!" -Radio broadcaster Ernie Harwell describing the Detroit Tigers' pennant-clinching moment, September...
...record, "The Year of the Tiger," on which those words have been captured, is warped now, Excessive use has worn it, left it gashed and gouged, and you have to turn up the volume to bear Ernie's voice. It sounds like a 1930s radio broadcast, with tic, tic, tic, and the muffled voice of the commentator...
...have descended onto the outfield of Tiger Stadium with thousands of others who may also have listened to Ernie's description of 1968. Our team has just secured the American League Eastern Championship, and we're all engulfed in raging euphoria. Celebrating, Dancing, Cheering...
...hour after the game, about 10:50 p.m. Most of the fans have remained in the stadium, still on their feet, hooting, expressing their jubilation. We don't want to leave this temple, Tiger Stadium, for the moment is to be relished...