One of my favorite Tiger trivia questions is to name the year and the 5 hall of famers who started and batted in a row on opening day.
2. Mickey Cochrane
3. Charley Gehringer
4. Hank Greenberg
5. Al Simmons
6. Goose Goslin
Sadly, this didn't last long as Greenberg re-fractured his wrist and Cochrane suffered a nervous breakdown. But it's the only year in history where Detroit had 5 hall of famers on its team.
The 1936 version of the Diamond Star set has a card for each, with the Simmons card in blue ink depicting him as a Tiger.
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