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DETROIT, September 17, 1968--Listen to the golden voice of Tiger announcer Ernie Harwell: "Don Wert singles, Kaline comes in to score, and it's all over.... The Tigers have just won their first pennant since nineteen hundred and forty-five. . . .The Tigers mob Don. . .Just listen to the bedlam here in Tiger Stadium...." That night, they danced in the streets of downtown Detroit...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Old Tiger Fans Never Die | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., mid-July, 1980--The Tiger fan strains to pick up "the clear channel choice of radio station WJR 760, Detroit." The Bengals have just won their ninth in a row and have moved from fifth to second place in a matter of two weeks. Manager Sparky Anderson defiantly declares that if the Tigers are seven games out on July 20, they'll be in the thick of the race down to the wire...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Old Tiger Fans Never Die | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

...current of tension runs through Graham Allison's gut, a tension paralleled in the graduate school he heads. While Jackson describes him as "self-effacing" and "remarkably unpretentious," he also terms him "a bull, a tiger, a hustler, a zealot, an entreprenurial guy, an unmodified enthusiast, and a genuine one." Despite his carefully controlled veneer when discussing matters important to him, Allison is "in a fundamental way, a regular guy," according to Jackson. And his style has never been to shun controversy. In fact, he often seems to attract it, at times betraying more than a trace of bluster...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...current of tension runs through Graham Allison's gut, a tension paralleled in the graduate school he heads. While Jackson describes him as "self-effacing" and "remarkably unpretentious," he also terms him "a bull, a tiger, a hustler, a zealot, an entreprenurial guy, an unmodified enthusiast, and a genuine one." Despite his carefully controlled veneer when discussing matters important to him, Allison is "in a fundamental way, a regular guy," according to Jackson. And his style has never been to shun controversy. In fact, he often seems to attract it, at times betraying more than a trace of bluster...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...current of tension runs through Graham Allison's gut, a tension paralleled in the graduate school he heads. While Jackson describes him as "self-effacing" and "remarkably unpretentious," he also terms him "a bull, a tiger, a hustler, a zealot, an entreprenurial guy, an unmodified enthusiast, and a genuine one." Despite his carefully controlled veneer when discussing matters important to him, Allison is "in a fundamental way, a regular guy," according to Jackson. And his style has never been to shun controversy. In fact, he often seems to attract it, at times betraying more than a trace of bluster...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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