DETROIT -- Willie Horton still vividly remembers his first arrival at Spring Training in Lakeland, Fla., 55 years ago. It was by foot.
"I got on the bus in Tampa," Horton recalled for an audience on Wednesday night. "The bus was full, and I just went to the back anyway. But when I got to Lakeland, I went around to see if anybody could take me to Tiger Town. And [the cab driver] said he couldn't take me.
"I thought he was joking, because you hear about [teammates] playing rookie jokes on you. So I said, 'Well, how do I get there?