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Even with things on the skids, it may be a little to late for Tigers Manager Jim Leyland to think of an alternative career.

But if not for baseball, Leyland tells MLB Networks's "Studio 42 With Bob Costas," that he might have been a singer, according to the Detroit Free Press. He said his family was musical.

"I still like to sing," Leyland said. "I'm not as good as I was at one time. I was OK at one time. ... I can't quite hit the high ones like I used to, but I was OK. I sang weddings, and I was in a choir and different things like that, and I loved it. But this worked out a little better, I think.


"I love soft rock. I'm not into the rap too much, obviously. I'm a little old for that."

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