Collections

The Detroit Tigers Baseball Cards collection 1960-2001 and 2015-2016, consists of various baseball cards, small memorabilia items, and a personal photograph collection from a game in 1994.

The Detroit Tigers Baseball Cards collection 1960-2001 and 2015-2016, consists of various baseball cards, small memorabilia items, and a personal photograph collection from a game in 1994. Cards are sorted chronologically and then by deck and by brand. Some seasons have multiple decks from different brands. Brands in the collection are Topps, Upper Deck, Fleer, and Score. Some decks provide supplemental cards, such as team photograph cards, rookie cards, and team signature cards.

Memorabilia items in the collection include ticket stubs, foldable pocket schedules, and a personal photograph collection from a game versus the Kansas City Royals. There are two decks for 2015 and 2016—one is an opened package available for viewing and the other package is closed for preservation purposes.

For the team’s 100th year anniversary, a special edition deck titled “Detroit’s Boys of Summer (1881-1981)” was created. The deck features many Detroit Tigers legends, such as Ty Cobb, Mickey Lolich, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell, Al Kaline, and others. (See Folder titled “Detroit Tigers B.B. Cards, 100th anniversary: Detroit’s Boys of Summer, 1981).

The collection consists mainly of materials, photographs, notes and statistics, essays, and memorabilia, such as identity cards, pins, a towel, a blazer, and a baseball, mostly generated by his career as a sportscaster.

The collection includes papers, photographs, and artifacts, which are organized by format, size, title, and chronologically. Except for some of his photographs, Baby Book, obituaries, and a student paper, all of the other materials in the collection were generated by his career. Among these are correspondence, photographs, awards, essays, play-by-play statistics and notes, broadcast related notes and statistics. Artifacts in the collection include: pins and identity cards, a plaque, a baseball, a towel, and a blazer. Particularly unusual to other manuscript collections are his oversized Basketball Broadcast Boards, 1992-1994, and undated, and Football Broadcast Boards, 1980-1996, and undated. These contain a wealth of information about the player’s personal and professional lives and dreams, and other broadcast related notes and essays, demonstrating his vast accumulation and knowledge of the athletes and sports. A 2016 addition includes a CD of a video essay on baseball written by Dick to celebrate his 60 years as a sportscaster. The video includes black and white and color footage of various players and games over decades. He wrote it. The video was created by Fox Sports San Diego. The video was created by Fox Sports San Diego (MP4 format).