Former Detroit News sportswriter Tom Gage, a dean of Detroit Tigers coverage, is back in the game with a book about the team.
The upcoming book can be pre-ordered as a 320-page paperback or in electronic format.
"The Big 50: The Men and Moments That Made the Detroit Tigers" comes out April 1 -- Opening Day -- from Triumph Books, a sports publisher in Chicago.
It's a countdown-style review of just over four dozen stars and turning points from Ty Cobb's era to Justin Verlander's.
The foreword chapter is by Alan Trammel, a legendary Tigers shortstop from 1977-96 and manager from 2002-05. (Today is his 59th birthday, as it happens.)
Gage, 67, was on The News' baseball beat from 1979 to 2015, when he retired after removal from the longtime assignment. The Grosse Pointer briefly worked part-time for Fox Sports Detroit in 2015 and was inducted that summer into the writers' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
His 320-page book, aimed mainly at young readers, can be pre-ordered in paperback or tablet format from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
It's the fifth in a series of "The Big 50" titles. Earlier releases look at the San Francisco Giants, the Toronto Blue Jays, the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Eagles.
-- Alan Stamm
