KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Only a precious few people will ever know exactly how it looked when Miguel Cabrera, one of baseball’s reluctant superstars, finally achieved history 45 years in the making.

Cabrera had slipped away to the visiting clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium on Wednesday night, where he waited out the final moments in his bid for the Triple Crown. Once everything that had to transpire happened, all the other possibilities played out, he could finally begin to celebrate.

Prince Fielder was there, along with Justin Verlander and a few other Detroit Tigers, all of them applauding one of the game’s great hitters.