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Alan Trammell, Jack Morris stay cool while reaching baseball immortality

We unearthed thousands of Free Press photo negatives and one sports writer's score book to tell the tale of baseball's greats. "Bless you, boys." Brian Kaufman, Detroit Free Press

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — They were themselves, which could have easily provided the biggest challenge.

But on the crowning day of their professional baseball lives, in front of more than 53,000 people, Alan Trammell and Jack Morris, who were key cogs on the Detroit Tigers'last World Series championship team in 1984, showed authenticity in front of the second-largest crowd ever to attend a Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony.