Homepage Feature Archives – The Tigers History Project

How Old Is The Tiger Stadium Flagpole? Tracing the Ground Roots of a Ballpark Icon

November 5, 2020 Mitch Lutzke Features, Homepage Feature, Homepage Slider, What's New

One of the most iconic features of iconic Tiger Stadium was the center field flagpole. We went in search of the roots of one of the most recognizable stadium features in baseball history.

Carl Zamloch Wowed Fans With Magic Act After Tigers Career

June 15, 2020 Mitch Lutzke Features, Homepage Feature, Homepage Slider, Recent, What's New

Shop Our Store Order this custom Carl “The Great Zam” Zamloch postcard from our online store Order Now Most baseball[…]

Tigers Finished Their 1918 Season in the Shadow of a Pandemic and War

May 22, 2020 Mitch Lutzke Features, Homepage Feature, Homepage Slider

In 1918, the Spanish flu was ravaging the world. The Center for Disease Control estimated the flu killed 50 million[…]

Understated Fetzer Played Outsized Role in Baseball and Broadcasting

March 25, 2020 Mitch Lutzke Features, Homepage Feature, Homepage Slider, Recent

However you look at it, John Fetzer had a tremendous impact on the Detroit Tigers and Major League Baseball. What you might not know was that Fetzer first came up with the idea for televised Monday night baseball (and was ignored), made the owners a ton of money through television contracts, kept Charlie Finley in baseball, and was seen as the de facto president of the American League.

Rube Waddell Showed Signs of Success, And Eccentricity, As A Minor Leaguer in Michigan

February 12, 2020 Mitch Lutzke Features, Homepage Feature, Homepage Slider, Recent

This Hall of Famer played with Detroit and Grand Rapids as a minor leaguer before making his name in the majors as a young phenom. Known for his childish antics and mercurial moods, he graced two Michigan ball diamonds over a century ago.

The Great Comeback: Historic Tigers Rally Has Stood For Over A Century

February 5, 2020 Matt Wentworth Features, Homepage Feature, Homepage Slider

What happens at a baseball game when one team falls behind by 12 runs? Just about everybody heads for the exits.

Where Did The Iconic Detroit “D” Come From?

January 28, 2020 Tigers History Homepage Feature, Required Reading

The Tigers popularized the D, but where did it really come from, and why has the entire city rallied behind it?

Briggs Stadium center field bleachers,1940 World Series

Hank Greenberg Credited Tigers’ 1940 Pennant to Sign Stealing

January 24, 2020 Tigers History Homepage Feature, Homepage Slider, Required Reading, What's New

From Vintage Detroit: In his 1989 autobiography edited by Ira Berkow, Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life (Times Books), published three[…]

Wild Bill Donovan And His Windsor Bride Were The Tigers’ First Celebrity Couple

January 13, 2020 Mitch Lutzke Features, Homepage Feature, Homepage Slider, Recent

They were a striking pair around traveling around Detroit: he the famous feisty pitcher and she his younger, beautiful wife. Over a century ago, Detroit’s glamour couple was William and Nellie Donovan.

Card of the Week: Steve Kemp, 1979 Topps

January 7, 2020 Sebastian Oslund Card of the Week, Homepage Feature, Homepage Slider

By Sebastian Oslund What did a Topps baseball card photographer capture on a seemingly random day in the late 1970s[…]