A look back at the life of Al Kaline, the Detroit Tigers great, who died on April 6, 2020, at age 85. Detroit Free Press
Tom Selleck doesn’t get nervous much. But when the actor spotted Al Kaline coming toward him in the spring of 1991, his stomach began knotting up.
He was sitting at his locker stall inside theDetroit Tigers’ clubhouse in Lakeland, Florida, getting dressed so he could take the field for practice — he was there doing research for a movie called, “Mr. Baseball.” Suddenly, Kaline pulled up a stool to chat.