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One of Detroit's greatest players, Al
Kaline won the league's batting crown in 1955 with a .340 batting
average, was selected to eighteen All-Star Games during his career,
captured ten Gold Gloves and ended his career with 3,007 career hits,
which broke a thirty-year record. Kaline was inducted into the National
Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980. During that same year the Tigers retired
his number.
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