The exterior of Briggs Stadium in Detroit is the subject of this c.1950 color postcard. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)
Paul Foytack was a mainstay of the Detroit Tigers’ starting rotation for the better part of seven seasons, from 1956 to 1962. Two of the right-hander’s best starts took place in August 1959.
(In remembrance of former Detroit Tigers pitcher Paul Foytack, who died on January 23 at the age of 90.)
Prior to making his professional baseball debut in the Tigers organization in 1949, it’s possible that the most memorable moment in Foytack’s life, to that point, happened six years earlier.