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Take a fun and enlightening journey through Detroit baseball history with the author of the Ultimate Detroit Tigers Time Machine Book. This presentation features videos of the greatest and most fascinating players, teams, events and moments in franchise history. The program also includes trivia questions for patrons to ponder. It covers it all from the fascinating Ty Cobb and Harry Heilmann eras to the Charlie Gehringer teams to the immortal Hank Greenberg and the 1945 champions to the struggles of the 1950s to the rebirth of the 1960s culminating in the cathartic 1968 World Series crown to Mark Fidrych and Ron LeFlore to the brilliance of Whitaker-Trammel and the 1984 dominance to the up-and-down eras that have followed. The event concludes with a question-and-answer period. Author Martin Gitlin with have autographed and personalized copies of his book following the program.