One hot summer afternoon at Yankee Stadium, during a game between the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees in the late 1950’s, some Yankee fans in the rightfield bleachers were doing what they do best—taunting the opposition.             “Hey, Kaline!,” one fan yelled at the Tigers’ superb rightfielder, Al Kaline.  “You ain’t half the ballplayer Mantle is!”           ...Read more