Tigers legend and 1968 World Series hero Mickey Lolich dies at 85

One of the aces of the Detroit Tigers’ mid-century glory days and hero of the 1968 World Series champion, Mickey Lolich, has died at age 85, according to multiple published reports. Later in life, he lived in Washington Twp., and owned a donut shop in Oakland County — originally in Rochester and moved to Lake Orion in 1983 — since his retirement from baseball in 1979. Signed by the Tigers in 1958, Lolich started 496 of his 586 career games over a 16-year Major League Baseball career, with 508 of those games coming with the Tigers between 1963 and 1975. At the time of his retirement in 1979 — after two seasons with the Padres — Lolich’s 2,832...