* Happy birthday, Ron LeFlore

June 16, 2008

The All-Star outfielder for the Tigers, Expos, and White Sox turns 60 today.

LeFlore wrote about his experiences in prison in Breakout: From Prison to the Big Leagues, which was turned into One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story, one of those terrible ABC Made for TV movies, starring Levar Burton as the ballplayer. His portrayal was just a little bit better than Tony Perkins in Fear Strikes Out.

The movie version featured several Tigers as themselves, including Billy Martin, Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Al Kaline, and Jim Northrup.

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