Moving on from naming our greatest catcher of all-time for the Detroit Tigers, we take on naming the greatest first baseman of all-time.  If choosing a catcher was difficult, this proves to be one of the biggest battles outside of the right field discussion.

With the only criteria of playing for the Tigers for five seasons, with a majority of games at that position, we have seven candidates.  They include: Norm Cash, Hank Greenberg, Miguel Cabrera, Rudy York, Lu Blue, Cecil Fielder, and Tony Clark.  The only two players that I am going to eliminate from this list right away will be Clark and Fielder, as Clark’s the .277 average and 156 homers aren’t going to cut it with this group, although the numbers are respectable.  Fielder, I was intending to write about until I looked at his numbers as a first baseman and realized a third of his homers came as a DH.

We’ll start in chronological order…

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