Flint Expatriates: Mark Fidrych

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Spring Training

Now that the Olympics are over, let's set our sights on spring training. This should help...

Monday, April 20, 2009

Dynamite

Two of my favorite items from the Scholastic Book Club, delivered straight to school in Flint after ordering from those flimsy paper forms in the seventies, were Dynamite

magazine and Encyclopedia Brown books. I still have a single copy of Dynamite, which was published from 1974 - 1992, and it happens to have the late, great Mark "The Bird" Fidrych on the cover. It's filled with Dynamite classics like Bummers, Count Morbida's Monthly Puzzle Pages, and Good Vibrations — a letters column about your feelings by Paulina Kernberg, M.D. ("Dear Dr. Kernberg, I am really lonely. I haven't got a true friend in the world. Can you help me? I'm really sad. Signed, Lonely in Pennsylvania.")

For more Dynamite nostalgia head to Retro Crush for a collection of covers ranging from the Sweat Hogs to Shields & Yarnell. (See extremely creepy video below to catch the mimes in action.)

Monday, April 13, 2009

The Bird is Gone

Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, a wonderful diversion from the Tigers' struggles in the '70s, is dead at age 54.

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