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Former and current Tigers players remember owner Mike Ilitch

FILE- In an Oct. 18, 2012, file photo Detroit Tigers owner Mike Ilitch, left, and general manager Dave Dombrowski, lift the William Harridge Trophy after their team won the American League championship series against the New York Yankees at Game 4, in Detroit. Ilitch, the owner of the Detroit Red Wings and Tigers, who founded the Little Caesars Pizza empire, has died. He was 87. Family spokesman Doug Kuiper says Ilitch died Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 at a hospital in Detroit. Ilitch and his wife opened their first Little Caesars restaurant in suburban Detroit in 1959, and the business eventually grew into the world's largest carry-out pizza chain. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum_FIle) (Matt Slocum/AP)

Tigers owner Mike Ilitch passed away at the age of 87 on Friday, the team announced Friday night. Former and current members of the Tigers organization began offering their condolences to his family and remembering the man who turned the Tigers into the team that won four straight AL Central titles from 2011 to 2014.

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