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Former
Tigers manager Tighe dead at 88
.c The Associated
Press
08/02/02 21:25
EDT
DETROIT (AP) - Jack Tighe, whose 52 years in organized
baseball included a stint as the Detroit Tigers' manager in the 1950s, has
died at age 88.
He died Thursday in Pompano Beach,
Fla.
Tighe never played in the major leagues, but became the
Tigers' manager in 1957, leading the team to a 78-76 record and a
fourth-place finish. Detroit was 21-28 and in fifth place when he was
fired in 1958 and replaced by Bill Norman.
Tighe was chosen as minor league Manager of the Year by The
Sporting News in 1968 after he led the Toledo Mud Hens - the Tigers' top
farm club - to the International League championship. He was a full-time
employee of the Detroit organization until 1982 and served in other
capacities until 1990.
Born Aug. 9, 1913, in Kearny, N.J., Tighe began his
baseball career in 1936 as a catcher with Charleston, W. Va. He was a
player-manager for the Muskegon Clippers, a Tigers farm club in the
Michigan State League, in 1940-41.
Tighe was inducted into the Muskegon Area Sports Hall of
Fame in 1988.
Tighe's wife, Beverly, died in 1990. Survivors include two
sons.
Funeral arrangements were pending
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