A half-century ago, Thursday, August 1, 1974, on a cool, summer evening in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 26-year-old Ron LeFlore made his Major League Baseball debut for the Detroit Tigers. The Brewers were hosting the Tigers at Milwaukee County Stadium. Game time was set for 8:30 p.m. A crowd of only 9,000 passed through the turnstiles that […]
Adam Henig
Adam Henig is the author of Watergate’s Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night Watchman (McFarland and Company, Inc., 2021) and the upcoming Baseball’s Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore (Rowman and Littlefield, 2026).
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