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...fans were really sky-high over this thing, and then, wham!" Tiger skipper Sparky Anderson said before Wednesday's Red Sox-Tiger massacre. He added that he feels particularly bad about the Tiger down-turn because their-success had been such a salve for the city...
With rampant unemployment and growing urban tension, the early season success of the Tigers had given the beleaguered city reason to rejoice. Thirty percent more fans had been filling Tiger Stadium nightly before the current road trip. Fans witnessed something rare on the Detroit sports scene: success...
...recent string of defeats--lengthened by three ruthless Red Sox drubbings this week--has, according to Detroit and Tiger observers, made the Motor City an even sadder place to be these days...
...Detroit, we haven't had any winners, period." Ernie Harwell, the Tiger's play-by-play announcer for more than 25 years, said at Fenway Wednesday...
...opponents he could easily whip. Lang, he suggests, would be too much to handle. "The worst thing that can happen to any fighter happened to you. You got civilized." The champion picks up the challenge, but when Mickey dies of a heart attack, Rocky loses the "eye of the tiger"-his term for hungry resolve-and the bout...