The Spot Starters

Covering the ups and downs of the Detroit Tigers.

Archives for the ‘Norm Cash’ Category

Team 83: The 1960 Tigers

By Blake VandeBunte • Nov 25th, 2009 • Category: Al Kaline, Charlie Maxwell, Eddie Yost, Frank Lary, Jim Bunning, Norm Cash, Top 109 Teams

Year: 1960
Record: 71-83
Win %: .461
Win % Change: -33
Run Differential: -11
Pythagorean Record: 76-78
AL Finish: 6th of 8
Manager: Jimmie Dykes, Billy Hitchcock and Joe Gordon
Best Transaction: Traded Steve Demeter to the Indians for Norm Cash.  Demeter never did a thing in the big leagues, I mean nothing.  Cash on the other hand was a staple in Detroit [...]


Team 89: The 1963 Tigers

By Blake VandeBunte • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: Al Kaline, Denny McLain, Mickey Lolich, Norm Cash, Top 109 Teams, Willie Horton

Year: 1963
Record: 79-83
Win %: .488
Win % Change: -40
Run Differential: -3
Pythagorean Record: 81-81
AL Finish: 5th of 10
Manager: Bob Scheffing and Chuck Dressen
Best Transaction: Picked up Denny McLain off of waivers.  McLain’s story is well know in Tigers lore.  He reached a very  high peak in the late 1960s and then fell apart on and off of [...]


Tigers Hit Leaders

By Blake VandeBunte • Sep 11th, 2009 • Category: Al Kaline, Alan Trammell, Bobby Veach, Charlie Gehringer, Donie Bush, Harry Heilmann, Lou Whitaker, Norm Cash, Sam Crawford, Ty Cobb

Big news this week as Spot Starters favorite, Derek Jeter, tied Lou Gehrig for the most hits ever in a Yankees uniform with 2,721 hits.  That’s an impressive total and Jeter and Gehrig each had phenomenal careers.  Gehrig is in the Hall of Fame and Jeter is as close to a HoF lock as you [...]


Top Tigers #9: Norm Cash

By Blake VandeBunte • Mar 8th, 2009 • Category: Norm Cash, Top 100 Tigers

Rank: 9
Name: Norman Dalton Cash
Position: First Base
Tigers Tenure: 1960-1974

Awards: Received MVP Votes Six Times, Four-time All Star, 1971 AL Comeback Player of the Year
Best Season: 1961.  When Magglio Ordonez had his great season in 2007, the comparison people kept throwing out there for him and that season was Norm Cash’s 1961 season.  Cash and [...]