Macawater pops up.

Here's three in.

Detroit's the new world champion.

And look at three and picking up Leridge.

It's a happy bunch of tigers.

They have beaten the Cardinals 4 to 1 and they have replaced them as the champions of tigers. They have beaten the Cardinals 4 to 1,

and they have replaced them as the champions of baseball.

Every now and then, these homegrown stories in baseball come about.

Here in Kansas City, if you recall, I had an opportunity to sit down with my good friend Frank White. Frank White grew up right here in the neighborhood

surrounding the Negro League Baseball Museum. Frank White literally helped build Kaufman Stadium. And then Frank White would go on to become an

eight-time gold glove winner. And certainly you can make a legitimate case that he should be in the

National Baseball Hall of Fame playing in that same stadium that he helped build. Well, during the All-Star break, I got a chance to sit down with another homegrown hero.

But this time, they're in the great city of Detroit, a city whose Negro League's history is

tremendously rich when we talk about the likes of the

gobbler, Turkish Stearns, and the other litany of great baseball players that once called

Detroit home. But this Detroit native, because that's exactly what he is, a native of Detroit,

went to high school there in Detroit, would become a cornerstone of some of those great tiger teams in the mid to late

60s into the 70s. He is a four-time All-Star game participant. At a time when this league was

built around pitching, he led the American League and home runs. He won a World Series in

1968 with the Detroit Tigers. And it is that world series that I think is not only

so important for the guests that I'm going to have an opportunity to sit down with, but it was also

equally important for the city of Detroit, because in 1968, this country was embroiled in a race battle.

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