Never forget Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker, the greatest double play duo in MLB history. The definition of stability and greatness up the middle for Detroit. 🐅 #DNMW #RepDetroit

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From the "I WISH he never played for the #RedWings" file. Stephen Weiss. Who else ya got?

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June 13th. One of my least favorite days of the year. On this day, two men that I was really close to lost their careers and almost their lives. Didn't seem fair in 1997 and it still doesn't today. Much has been said about how we celebrated the responsible way. Yeah, we drank. A lot. But we didn't drive. We took limos everywhere that week. Yet tragedy still struck Vladdy and Sergei and it struck our entire team. I still live near the crash site. Even though lightning would cruelly strike and destroy the tree less than a month after they hit it, I know exactly where it was, the exact median on Woodward, and the location, down to the foot. I drive past it almost daily and still it fixates my glare. Not far away, Beaumont Hospital, where Vladdy and Sergei would spend months, and I would stop by daily...hoping for a miracle that never came. Sure, elite medical care, rehabilitation and Vladdy's sheer will to live is why he is still with us 29 years later, but the miracle of he and Sergei Mnatsakanov having even a remotely normal life missed them. And for that, I will always be angry. I will always wish they never got in that limo or even came to the golf course that day. Neither one of them played even one hole, they weren't golfers... they came to be with their teammates. To celebrate one last time before we all went our separate ways. Unfair. Cruel. So I choose to celebrate those men. Sergei has passed but he will never be forgotten. Such an amazing family man, masseur and friend. He never got the credit he deserved for helping that 97 team play at it's best. He was a blessing to me and all the players. Vladdy? Man, what a warrior. What a great human being and hockey player. Easily the toughest player I had the privilege of working with. He would play through anything... and he did. I think about him often...wish life was better to and for him. But I do not pity him. Vladdy wouldn't allow it. I love and appreciate him, and I know his fans do too.

🇺🇸 Thank you all for reading my latest series on baseball players! Next up: Most Badass Football Players: Combat Veteran Edition The ones who played on the NFL gridiron and answered the call in combat. Some came back champions. Some never came home. First one drops tomorrow. 🫡🇺🇸

🇺🇸 Most Badass Ballplayers: Combat Veteran Edition #1 Hank Bauer Hank Bauer, United States Marine and eight-time World Series champion, was one badass ballplayer. Born July 31, 1922, in East St. Louis, Illinois. One month after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He volunteered for the elite Marine Raiders and was sent to the Pacific Theater. He fought in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war, including Guadalcanal, Guam, and Okinawa. On Guam, Bauer went ashore on the very first day. He earned his first Bronze Star for demonstrating exceptional valor during intense, close-quarters jungle warfare. He was wounded in the back by enemy shrapnel from an exploding shell. He refused to leave the battlefield. It was his first Purple Heart. Years later, pieces of shrapnel from that wound were still embedded in his back. His Yankees teammates would sometimes pick metal fragments out of him in the clubhouse. The fighting he experienced on Okinawa was even more brutal. Bauer was a platoon sergeant leading 64 Marines. Only six of them survived the battle. On April 15, 1945, under heavy mortar and machine-gun fire, he repeatedly exposed himself to evacuate wounded men. When stretcher bearers were no longer available, he carried casualties himself to the aid station. For that action he earned a second Bronze Star. He was also wounded in the thigh by an artillery shell, tearing a massive hole in his left thigh. He received his second Purple Heart. As he was being carried off, he turned to a buddy and said, “There goes my baseball career.” Throughout his time in the Pacific, Bauer also battled malaria, contracting it twenty-four separate times (that’s not a typo). After the war he returned to baseball. He made the Yankees in 1948 and became a key part of their dynasty, winning seven World Series titles as a player over 14 seasons. He hit safely in a then record 17 straight World Series games. He later managed the Yankees to the 1964 pennant and the Orioles to a World Series championship in 1966. 32 months of combat. 11 campaign ribbons. 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts. 8 World Series Championships. Thank you, Hank! 🫡🇺🇸⚾

The Wings scouted Robert Thomas heavily in the weeks prior to the trade deadline. The consensus from the GM on down: Absolutely Zero Interest. Any speculation to the contrary is just that by so-called "insiders" throwing shit at a wall -- wild, inaccurate speculation.

Hilary Knight is heading to Detroit. The hockey star will headline the new PWHL team in Michigan following a sign-and-trade deal, the AP reports.

Sources: The Edmtn Oilers are consulting with the NHLPA to see if there are objections that must be resolved before potentially hiring Mike Babcock. Amid allegations of invading players privacy, Babcock resigned in CBJ as Head Coach in 2023. Further investigation may be required.