Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame Update

Earlier in the year, I wrote about a Detroit Tigers Hall Of Fame we have been creating at MotownSports. After five months of research, debating and voting, the first phase of the project is now complete and 54 members have been inducted. Officially named the Bluhm Memorial Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame, the project is led by Dave Troppens (known on MotownSports as DTroppens) and Alan Chichester (DT34456884), two excellent writers and long time contributors to MotownSports. For those who don't know, Brian Bluhm was one of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings in April. He was a very avid Tigers fan, a friend to many of us in the Tigers online community and one of the most active participants in this project.

We currently have 20 voters, most of whom have been on the project since the initial election. That first election included players who finished their careers with the Tigers by 1915. The second election included all players who ended their Tigers careers between 1916 and 1920. Each week, we had an election including players from a new 5 year period. On June 15th, we completed the voting for players who ended their careers between 2001-2005. In each election, each voter is allowed to vote for as many as 5 players. Managers, executives and broadcasters are also eligible. Any player receiving 75% of the votes gets into the Hall of Fame.

This is an ongoing project with plans in place for voting of Detroit Wolverines (a National League team from 1881-1888) and the Detroit Stars (a Negro League team in the 1920s and 1930s) players. Those elections will be held separately because there is less information available and more time will be required for research. There will also be annual elections for newly retired players and for players who received a significant portion of votes but failed to get elected in the first phase.

If you go to the the link above, you'll see a profile of each of the 54 members. A brief summary is included in the Table below.

Table: Bluhm Memorial Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame

Name	Position	First Year as Tiger	Last Year as Tiger
Ed Killian	Pitcher	1904	1910
George Mullin	Pitcher	1902	1913
Sam Crawford	Outfielder	1903	1917
Bill Donovan	Pitcher	1903	1918
Hughie Jennings	Manager	1907	1920
Donie Bush	Shortstop	1908	1921
Bobby Veach	Outfielder	1912	1923
Ty Cobb	Outfielder	1905	1926
Hooks Dauss	Pitcher	1912	1926
Harry Heilmann	Outfielder	1914	1929
Frank Navin	Owner,Executive	1903	1935
Mickey Cochrane	Catcher, Manager	1934	1938
Charlie Gehringer	Second baseman	1924	1942
School Boy Rowe	Pitcher	1933	1942
Rudy York	First baseman	1934	1945
Hank Greenberg	First baseman	1930	1946
Tommy Bridges	Pitcher	1930	1946
Wish Egan	Scout	1907	1951
Dizzy Trout	Pitcher	1932	1952
George Kell	Third baseman	1946	1952
Walter Briggs, Sr.	Owner, Executive	1920	1952
Ty Tyson	Broadcaster	1927	1952
Hal Newhouser	Pitcher	1939	1953
Fred Hutchinson	Pitcher	1939	1953
Virgil Trucks	Pitcher	1941	1956
Ray Boone	Third baseman	1953	1958
Harvey Kuenn	Shortstop	1952	1959
Jim Bunning	Pitcher	1955	1963
Vic Wertz	Outfielder	1947	1963
Rocky Colavito	Outfielder	1960	1963
Frank Lary	Pitcher	1954	1964
Denny McLain	Pitcher	1963	1970
Dick McAuliffe	Second baseman	1960	1973
Willie Horton	Outfielder	1963	1973
Al Kaline	Outfielder	1953	1974
Norm Cash	First baseman	1960	1974
Jim Northrup	Outfielder	1964	1974
Mickey Lolich	Pitcher	1963	1975
Bill Freehan	Catcher	1961	1976
John Hiller	Pitcher	1965	1980
John Fetzer	Owner, Executive	1956	1983
Lance Parrish	Catcher	1977	1986
Willie Hernandez	Pitcher	1984	1989
Jack Morris	Pitcher	1977	1990
Chet Lemon	Outfielder	1982	1990
Jim Campbell	GM, Executive	1962	1990
Paul Carey	Broadcaster	1973	1991
Lou Whitaker	Second baseman	1977	1995
Kirk Gibson	Outfielder	1979	1995
Sparky Anderson	Manager	1979	1995
Alan Trammell	Shortstop	1977	1996
Cecil Fielder	First baseman	1990	1996
Travis Fryman	Third baseman	1990	1997
Ernie Harwell	Broadcaster	1960	2002