RIP HOFer GEORGE KELL

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Posted By: Joann

Wow. He was my voice of summer growing up.

When I lived out east years ago, I was talking to home and waiting for someone else to come to the phone. The Tigers were on in the background and I heard George Kell say "They're gonna wave him home!". That was the moment I decided that I was moving back to Michigan the second I graduated even if it meant abandoning the field I was in school for. It was a lot of things about Michigan, of course, and not just George or the Tigers. But waiting on the phone listening to George Kell in the background was the moment that sealed it.

I'd give my eye teeth to get my hands on a copy of any game he called, or any part of a game.

Shoot. Detroiters will feel this one.

J