When Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch has a chance to teach a baseball history lesson, he takes it.
And so, Friday afternoon, he sat in the clubhouse with his pitchers — Tyler Alexander, Jason Foley, Tarik Skubal and Will Vest — talking about the weekend's upcoming ceremony.
He realized they knew Lou Whitaker, but didn't know Lou Whitaker.
So he gave them an assignment: Grab your phones, he instructed, pull up Alan Trammell on one and Whitaker on the other.
"The reason I did it is because we hold Alan Trammell in such reverence because he’s active (in the organization), he’s here with us, he instructs us, I mean there’s always a smile on our face when he comes around," Hinch said.