By ADAM ECOM Detroit didn't just get baseball. Detroit earned it! Long before the current franchise was born, Detroit had a National League team known as the Wolverines (unaffiliated with the University of Michigan), which even won a league title in 1887. Though that original franchise folded after the 1888 season.    The organization that would actually become today's Tigers was founded as a minor league club in the Western League in 1894. In its earliest seasons, it did not have an official moniker and was often referred to interchangeably... Read more...