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In his twenty-year career, Trammell batted over .300 seven time. The 6-time All Star finished his career with 185 home runs with 1,003 RBI, 1,231 runs, 2,365 hits, 412 doubles, 55 triples and 236 stolen bases and a .285 average .

After his retirement, Trammell coached for Detroit and the San Diego Padres. He also returned to Detroit to manage the Tigers before serving as bench coach for former teammate Kirk Gibson with the Diamondbacks.

In late 2014 he was named special assistant to the general manager of the Detroit Tigers. Four years later he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In the collection is a contract with the Autographed Ball Company producers of souvenir baseballs with stamped facsimile signatures. Trammell has signed this piece five times. The terms of the deal? The shortstop received one cent per ball sold.

The contract is dated March 14, 1975 which puts Trammell in his senior year in high school, a few months before the Tigers selected him in the second round of the 1976 draft.

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A six-time All Star, four time Gold Glover, and three-time Silver Slugger, Alan Trammell was a great player. His career performance got him elected to Cooperstown in 2018 yet he’s not even the best player pictured on the card shown above.

That honor goes to Paul Molitor, a Hall of Famer and member of the 3,000 hit club. At the time of his retirement, only 8 men had more than Molitor’s 3,319 career hits. The 1993 World Series MVP finished with 1,782 runs scored, 605 doubles, 114 triples, 234 homers, 1,307 RBI, 1,094 walks, a .306 batting average, and 504 stolen bases.

In 2004, he was elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot.

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The 1984 Tigers won their first nine games and never looked back. Forty games into the season Detroit had 35 wins against 5 losses. That remains the the best start in MLB history.

The Bengals dominated the AL East wire-to-wire, outpacing the second-place Toronto Blue Jays by 15 games. Detroit continued its winning ways in the postseason, sweeping the Kansas City Royals in the ALCS. In the World Series, it took just five games for the Tigers to brush aside the NL champion Padres to earn the title.

Shown here is a questionnaire filled out and signed by the catcher for the 1984 Detroit club, Lance Parrish. At the bottom he’s asked about the most memorable moments of his career.

Parrish writes, “Nothing in my career compares to 1984. Starting the season 35-5, sweeping the Royals in the playoffs & beating the Padres in the World Series. There is nothing like winning.”

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Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker were Detroit mainstays for almost two decades. The Motown combo debuted together on September 9, 1977. Their final game together came 18 years later on October 1, 1995.

With Tram at shortstop and Sweet Lou at second base, the Tigers struck gold. During their time together the pair combined for 11 All Star selections, seven Gold Gloves and seven Silver Sluggers. Statistically their totals from ’77-’95 come in with 4,689 hits, 429 homers, 2071 RBI, 373 stolen bases, and 146.8 WAR.

Tiger fans loved the middle-infield mates who played 1,918 games together as the longest-standing double-lay duo in baseball history. The pair holds the record for most double plays turned by teammates and spent their entire careers with the Tigers.

Among teammates at any position, the Detroit duo hold the American League appearances for most games together. On September 13, 1995 they played in their 1,915th game together to pass Kansas City men George Brett and Frank White.

The major league record is held by Houston’s Hall of Famers Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell who appeared in 2,020 contests side by side. The Cubs Cooperstown pair of Billy Williams and Ron Santo hold the second spot with 2,012 games together.

Shown here is a ticket to the game when Trammell and Whitaker set the AL mark. Whitaker signed the it and added the inscription “1,915 games with Tram”.