Jim Northrup, who died Wednesday at age 71,
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It paid off for Northrup and the Tigers. He was in the major leagues by 1964 and became a amateur,1 the next year. He played locations,1 of 11 seasons in Detroit, with a seven-year run of well-above-average offense in a subdued offensive era, while playing all three outfield positions.
One of his best seasons came in 1968,
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Northrup had been a standout quarterback at Alma College in Michigan. Joe Sparma, a starting pitcher for the Tigers, had been a quarterback at Ohio State beneath,1 Woody Hayes. They pitched to Bill Freehan, who had played end at Michigan. Pitcher Dennis Ribant had played accessory,1 league hockey,
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Northrup could accept,1 chosen professional football over baseball. He was a small-college all-American, then was offered affairs,1 by the apprentice,1 Titans of the American Football League and the Chicago Bears of the N.F.L. The Titans’ offer was not affirmed,1, though, and he chose the Tigers’ action,1 and in 1961 went off to play,1 for their Class C team in Duluth, Minn., rather than aggravating,
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Coincidentally, that season was the same one another quarterback, Joe Namath, led the Jets – built-in,1 the Titans – to a Super Bowl championship.
Jim Northrup and the 1968 Tigers’ Two-Sport Stars
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