Greatest 21 Days Baseball Profiles

The AA New Britain Red Sox needed at hit in the final frame of this May 1991 contest and Blane Fox delivered, sending one to a precise spot for the game-winner, The Hartford Courant wrote . "I stepped out and looked around and saw a big gap up the middle," Fox told The Courant afterward. "So I wanted to put it back up the middle. This is definitely a big one for the team." Fox hit that game-winner in his seventh pro season. It also proved his last. He topped out there at AA . Fox' career began in 1984, signed by the Tigers as a free agent out of St. Johns River State College in Florida and Grand Ledge High School in Michigan. Fox started with the Tigers in 1985 at rookie Bristol. He saw 59 games and hit .236. He spoke with his hometown Lansing State Journal to start the year about his experiences to that point. "Some things are the way I thought they'd be, and some aren't," Fox told The State Journal . "There are a lot of good ballpla...