Dan Petry was a California boy, and even as of 1982 — the year he got married, six years after he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers, and three years after he made his debut in the Olde English D — he still was reassuring wife Christine, his high-school sweetheart, that the West Coast always would be their home.
Funny how life works out.
Petry is about to be forever entrenched in Metro Detroit, when, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Orchard Lake St. Mary's High School will officially dedicate "Dan Petry Field."
"Michigan has been so good, not only Orchard Lake St.