Al Kaline’s signature accomplishment as the youngest player to win a batting crown quickly became an albatross that nearly derailed a Hall of Fame career. Sixty-five years ago, in his second ...

Al Kaline’s signature accomplishment as the youngest player to win a batting crown quickly became an albatross that nearly derailed a Hall of Fame career. Sixty-five years ago, in his second ...

Al Kaline, who in a long and unique Detroit Tigers lifetime grew from youthful batting champion to Hall of Famer to distinguished elder statesman, died Monday afternoon at his home in Bloomfield ...

Al Kaline’s signature accomplishment as the youngest player to win a batting crown quickly became an albatross that nearly derailed a Hall of Fame career. Sixty-five years ago, in his second ...

Al Kaline, a staple in the Detroit Tigers’ right ... The third year, at age 20, he won the American League batting title (.340 average), becoming the youngest player in the history of baseball ...

In this 1970 photo, the Detroit Tigers’ Al Kaline is shown at bat. Kaline spent his entire 22-season Hall of Fame career with the Detroit Tigers and was known affectionately as “Mr. Tiger.”( ...

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the two iconic sports stars in Detroit were right wing Gordie Howe of the Red Wings and rightfielder Al Kaline ... Kaline won his American League batting title ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Al Kaline as an 18-year-old rookie in ... Kaline was the youngest player to win the American League batting title, in 1955 at age 20 with a ...

Mike Trout. 20-year-old Mike Trout. Al Kaline famously won a batting title at age 20, way back in 1955. Alex Rodriguez won a batting title in 1996, a few months after turning 21. Ty Cobb won a ...

batting .340 with 200 hits, 27 home runs, 82 walks (against 57 strikeouts), and 321 total bases. Kaline finished runner-up to Yogi Berra in the AL MVP balloting and would never play a game in the ...

He took over as the everyday right fielder in 1954, and in 1955 he bested Ty Cobb by a day as the youngest AL batting champion. Kaline never hit 30 home runs in a season and topped the 100-RBI ...