Fansided · Mar 30, 2020
Opening Day 1920: They Don’t Write ‘Em Like That Anymore
The Detroit Tigers and their major league brethren will begin the 2020s later than expected. Jumping back 100 years, coverage of how the Tigers began the 1920s brought to mind a lyric from an obscure hit by The Greg Kihn Band, “they don’t write ’em like that anymore”. Sportswriters of that era were often more colorful than their modern day counterparts. Read on. Opening Day 1920 awaits.
On a Wednesday afternoon in Chicago on April 14, veteran manager Hughie Jennings led his fourteenth Tigers team into action against the White Sox at the original Comiskey Park to begin a brand new decade of baseball.