Charlie Gehringer grew up on a farm in Fowlerville, Mich. — “a town of something like 1,200 humans in Livingston County,” the Free Press explained — and the only thing the young Gehringer ...

Fowlerville will soon honor hometown hero and baseball legend Charlie Gehringer with a mural after winning a $25,000 grant ...

One ball that stands out is the 1933 Tigers baseball signed by Babe Ruth ... Charlie Gehringer, Tommy Bridges and Schoolboy Rowe. “Back in those days, team dinners were common,” Nagengast said.

• What: A free presentation about former Detroit Tigers baseball player Charlie Gehringer, given by his great-nephew George Winegar. The event is part of the Livingston Reads 2009 series.

Pitcher Lefty Gomez, and many others, marveled at Gehringer's remarkable consistency: "Charlie Gehringer is in a rut. He hits .350 on Opening Day and stays there all season." Nicknamed the ...

Nicknamed “the Mechanical Man," Charlie Gehringer was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949. He was born in Fowlerville in 1903.

Josephine Gehringer, widow of late Tigers second baseman Charlie Gehringer, died at her home in Beverly Hills, Mich., of natural causes on Sunday. She was 100. Born in Calumet on Feb. 16, 1918 ...

During World War II, many major league baseball players served in the military. Red Sox great Ted Williams, left, was a pilot in the Marine Corps. He met up with fellow baseball players Charlie ...

Charlie Gehringer, a Hall of Fame second baseman whose entire 19-year career was spent with the Detroit Tigers, died Thursday. He was 89. His wife Josephine said Gehringer had been in a nursing hom… ...

Gehringer was born in Fowlerville in 1903, according to his biography from the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He spent his entire 19-year career in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers ...