Brandon Inge the other night collected his 1,000th career hit, all with the Tigers.
While Inge isn't going to the Hall of Fame, it is a nice milestone for a guy who plays the game the right way.
I'm happy for Inge and one of the reasons is that I saw him in his first professional season. In 1998, I was announcing NY-Penn League games for Hudson Valley and Inge was playing in his first professional season for the Jamestown Jammers. He has spent his entire pro career in the Detroit organization.
Jamestown Jammers sounds like a fledgling minor league basketball team, no?
By the way, one boring hot day in Jamestown I took a visit to the big tourest attraction in town...the Lucille Ball Museum! Lucy was from Jamestown. The other big celebrity from Jamestown? That would be singer Natalie Merchant. I don't know of a museum for her, yet, in Jamestown. If there was a Natalie Merchant Museum in Jamestown I would have visited it as well. Probably in the same day I saw the Lucy Museum since it took all of 45-minutes to wander through.
Anyway, Jamestown is where Inge's career started and good for him that he got his 1,000th big league hit in a Detroit Tigers uniform.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment