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Hundreds of autographs

Michigan is not as far from Florida as both Alberta and Nova Scotia, but Terri Nummer has a soulful reason to follow the Detroit Tigers for more than a decade at Spring Training.

Terri has chased the Tigers for years determined to collect player’s autographs.

Her collection totals more than 400.

“I’m interested first of all in baseball because my grandpa and my dad were both very big Tigers fans. I’ve started collecting autographs about 15 years ago,” she said.

It all began for her with a 1984 Detroit Tigers’ mug.

“The first person to sign was Sparky Anderson right before he passed away”, the Michigander said. “That mug has about 25 signatures on it now.”

Anderson was the Tigers manager for the team’s 1984 World Series title.

But Anderson is not Terri’s favourite autograph. That honour belongs to Alan Trammell, a Hall of Famer who was also part of Detroit’s championship team.

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