Alan Trammell: "My dream has always been to go in together." (Photo by Roger DeWitt)
Tigers icon Alan Trammell, who last played for the team in 1996, is a favorite to be elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame next month.
But Trammell is conflicted bevcause the 10-man ballot excludes longtime double-play partner, Lou Whitaker, according to Tony Paul of The Detroit News:
When asked recently, during a lengthy conversation with The Detroit News, if he could get the call next month or wait two more years until Whitaker is eligible to get on the ballot – thus creating the possibility of the two of them being enshrined like they played, side by side – Trammell really didn't hesitate.
"My dream has always been to go in together, and I stand by that," Trammell, now an adviser in the Tigers' front office, said shortly after arriving home in California following a work trip to the ballclub's Dominican Republic academy. "To me, that would the ultimate story."
"The two of us together is a better story than one or the other. That's kind of how I always viewed that. I've been saying that for years. I think that's a darn good story, one of the better ones.
"Two guys who played together for 19 years at the major-league level, and stayed with one team their whole careers, and by the way did pretty darn good themselves – that's just my dream. I'm entitled to my own thoughts. That would be so cool."
