Detroit - The email popped into the inbox late Sunday night, from a longtime baseball writer with close ties to the Baseball Hall of Fame. `You guys in Detroit happy tonight?` Getting there, sir. Getting there. The announcement that Alan Trammell and Jack Morris were, after all these years, Cooperstown-bound was met with practically universal glee from Detroit, the ´burbs, and the entire state of Michigan, from Port Huron to Paw Paw, Pentwater to Petoskey. And then, in the immediate aftermath of the good word, thoughts turned swiftly - like, say, a 1980s Tigers double play - to Trammell´s longtime double-play partner, Lou Whitaker. Whitaker remains the forgotten Tiger, certainly not ´round...
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