Detroit — There may not be a more fitting day to introduce — or reintroduce for fans of a more aged vintage — new Tigers bench coach George Lombard than on Martin Luther King Day. That's because the late Posy Lombard, a white woman from a wealthy New England family who became a legendary activist in the American civil rights movement, is his mother.
Posy Lombard, who was killed in a car accident at age 41, when George was 10, marched with Dr. King in 1963. She was a congressional intern. She went to civil rights seminars to hear Malcolm X.