The 2004 American League Championship Series was the Major League Baseball playoff series to decide the American League champion for the 2004 season.
 A rematch of the 2003 American League Championship Series, it was played between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, at Fenway Park and the original Yankee Stadium, from October 12 to 20, 2004.
 The Red Sox became the first (and so far only) team in MLB history to come back from a 0–3 deficit to win a seven-game series.
 The Red Sox, who had won the AL wild card, defeated the Anaheim Angels in the American League Division Series to reach the ALCS, while the Yankees, who had won the AL East with the best record in the AL, defeated the Minnesota Twins.
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan.
 The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division.
 One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in 1901 .
 They are the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in the AL The Tigers have won four World Series championships (, , , and ), 11 AL pennants (1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, 2006, 2012), and four AL Central division championships (2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014).
 The Tigers also won division titles in 1972, 1984 and 1987 while members of the AL East.
 The team currently plays its home games at Comerica Park in Downtown Detroit.
Alan Marshall Clark (born January 9, 1948) is a former professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1976 to 1999, and throughout both Major Leagues in 2000 and 2001, wearing uniform number 24 when the American League adopted them for its umpires in 1980, then retained the number when the NL and AL staffs were merged in 2000.
 Clark umpired 3,392 major league games in his 26-year career.
 He umpired in two World Series (1983 and 1989), two All-Star Games (1984 and 1995), five American League Championship Series (1979, 1982, 1987, 1992 and 1999), and three American League Division Series (1981, 1996 and 2000).
 He was the home plate umpire in Nolan Ryan's 300th career win on July 31, 1990.
The 2010 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was the best-of-seven game series pitting the winners of the 2010 American League Division Series for the American League Championship.
 The American League wild card-winning New York Yankees faced the American League West Division champions Texas Rangers.
 The Rangers won the 2010 ALCS and face the National League champion San Francisco Giants in the 2010 World Series, the franchise's first ever appearance in the World Series.
 The series, the 41st in league history, began October 15 and ended on October 22.
 The Rangers had home field advantage in the series, as the wild-card team defers home field advantage in the LDS and LCS regardless of regular-season record.
The 2013 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 113th season.
 They finished 93–69, first place in the American League (AL) Central Division.
 During the season, the Tigers finished one game ahead of the second place Cleveland Indians.
 They became the first Tigers team to win three consecutive titles since the 1907, 1908 and 1909 won three consecutive American League pennants.
 The Tigers defeated the Oakland Athletics in five games in the American League Division Series and advanced to the ALCS for the third straight season, the first time a Major League team has done so since the New York Yankees advanced to four straight from 1998 to 2001.
 They lost the American League Championship Series to the Boston Red Sox, four games to two.
 Manager Jim Leyland announced his retirement following the American League Championship Series.
The 2014 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 114th season.
 This was the team's first year under a mostly new coaching staff led by rookie Manager Brad Ausmus.
 On September 28, the last day of the regular season, the Tigers clinched the American League Central title with a 3–0 win over the Minnesota Twins.
 The Tigers finished one game ahead of the Kansas City Royals, with a 90–72 record.
 It was their fourth consecutive American League Central title.
 They became the first AL Central team to win four consecutive titles since the Cleveland Indians won five straight from 1995 to 1999, and the first Tigers team to ever make four consecutive postseason appearances.
 Despite all of this, the Tigers' season ended on October 5 when they were swept by the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Division Series.
 This snapped Detroit's streak of three consecutive American League Championship Series appearances.
The 2016 American League Division Series (ALDS) were two best-of-five game series to determine the participating teams in the 2016 American League Championship Series of Major League Baseball.
 The three divisional winners (seeded 1-3) and the winner of a one-game Wild Card playoff played in two series.
 The divisional winners were the Texas Rangers in the American League West with the first seed by virtue of having the best record in the American League, the Cleveland Indians in the American League Central with the second seed, and the Boston Red Sox in the American League East with the third seed.
 The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles in the Wild Card Game, earning the fourth seed.
Henry Homer "Doc" Gessler (December 23, 1880 – December 25, 1924) was a Major League Baseball player born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, who began his eight-season career, at the age of 22, with the Detroit Tigers in 1903 .
 He played mainly as a right fielder in a career that totaled 880 games played, 2969 at bats, 831 hits, 363 RBIs and 14 home runs. Doc died in Greensburg at the age of 44, and is interred in Saint Bernard Cemetery in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
George Drew Coble (born December 18, 1947) is a former professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1982 to 1999.
 Coble umpired 2,303 major league games in his 18-year career.
 Coble wore uniform number 37 when the American League adopted numbers in 1980.
 He umpired in the World Series (1991), two All-Star Games (1985 and 1997), three American League Championship Series (1987, 1992 and 1995), and two American League Division Series (1996 and 1998).
George Patrick Maloney (February 28, 1928 - July 29, 2003) was a professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1969 to 1983, wearing uniform number 28 when the American League adopted them for umpires in 1980.
 Maloney umpired 2,159 major league games in his 15-year career.
 He umpired in one World Series (1975), three All-Star Games (1974, 1979 and 1983, becoming the last AL umpire to wear the outside balloon protector favored by AL umpires in All-Star competition), three American League Championship Series (1973, 1976 and 1980), and the 1981 American League Division Series.

Question: Doc Gessler began his career with the team that is now part of what American League division?
Answer: Central