Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, whose offbeat antics electrified the city of Detroit and charmed baseball fans everywhere during one of the unlikeliest seasons of glory in major league history ...

In the town of Northboro, whenever you needed a whole lot of something moved, the dump truck's owner, Mark Fidrych, would gladly move it for you. When he first began driving the truck, Fidrych ...

Mark ”the Bird” Fidrych was not preparing for a future in the business world when, as a rookie with the Detroit Tigers in 1976, he helped sell vacuum cleaners at a shopping center. This was ...

As noted in his 2013 biography, “The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych,” author Doug Wilson wrote: “Mark seemed to be all Prince, Uecker and Wolf were able to talk about on the air ...

This week: What would have happened if Mark “The Bird” Fidrych hadn’t battled injuries? The Summer of The Bird still resonates with baseball fans of a certain age. It was 1976 when the zany ...

Precisely how much of this can be traced to Mark Fidrych cannot be measured, but without him none of it might have happened. From the day in June 1974 when he showed up at the training camp of the ...

The funeral service for Mark Fidrych at First Parish Unitarian Church Friday morning was marked by moments laden with laughter, tears and baseball as friends and family fondly remembered "The Bird.

Forty years ago, Mark Fidrych of the Detroit Tigers was a phenomenon throughout baseball, but endured an incredible workload for a 21-year-old rookie pitcher. On August 29, 1976, Mark Fidrych took ...

FREEP FLASHBACK: 40 years ago, Mark (The Bird) Fidrych was 'some kind of unbelievable' Hey, would you like to play baseball? Another example of Fidrych’s plainspoken honesty and ...

This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. Mark Fidrych died this week in an accident on his farm in Massachusetts. He was only 54. The news threw me into a time machine and flashed me back ...

Mark Fidrych, whose aw-shucks charm and colorful on-the-mound antics helped make him a national phenomenon with the Detroit Tigers in 1976, was killed in an accident while working on his dump ...

WORCESTER – After a convoluted four-year legal battle, a judge has dismissed a wrongful death suit brought by the widow of Northboro pitching star Mark Fidrych that sought to hold companies that ...