tomdalton22
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Umm...it was dead last when Smith inherited the team as well.
I guess there is no way to tell which is worse then.
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Get StartedUmm...it was dead last when Smith inherited the team as well.
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1993 Jerry Walker
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Freaking Bo Schembechler. What a joke!
I recall that Bo made a positive contributions to the infrastructure of the minor leagues. And he did no real harm to the organization.
So help me understand your opinion of his tenure as Tigers' president.
The joke was they hired a college football coach to be the President of a professional baseball team. It was just a PR move that backfired. Firing Ernie Harwell? Nice move there.
I recall that Bo made a positive contributions to the infrastructure of the minor leagues. And he did no real harm to the organization.
So help me understand your opinion of his tenure as Tigers' president.
I didn't know this. Weird.
I stuck close to that story as it unfolded because I could not get my head around Bo being the trigger man.
But I still don't think it is common knowledge, even amongst Tigers' fans.
Wikipedia has this vague commentary:
In 1991, he presided over the firing of Tigers' longtime broadcaster Ernie Harwell. The move was decried by fans and the press. Management at the Tigers' flagship radio station WJR later claimed responsibility for the sacking, but Schembechler and club owner Tom Monaghan were denounced for the decision.
I was in the Army at Fort Huachuca, Arizona at the time (July 1990-July 1995). Long before any real internet. USA Today was the closest to thing to national news and that was only Monday through Friday.
Even after the internet, until now, I never saw anything which exonerated Bo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Schembechler#cite_note-8
Didn't Harwell end up being brought back for a while because of the fan reaction?
Yes and also because the replacements were horrible.
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