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.
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Carl Zamloch Wowed Fans With Magic Act After Tigers Career
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Tigers Finished Their 1918 Season in the Shadow of a Pandemic and War
In 1918, the Spanish flu was ravaging the world. The Center for Disease Control estimated the flu killed 50 million[…]
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Understated Fetzer Played Outsized Role in Baseball and Broadcasting
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.
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Rube Waddell Showed Signs of Success, And Eccentricity, As A Minor Leaguer in Michigan
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.
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The Great Comeback: Historic Tigers Rally Has Stood For Over A Century
What happens at a baseball game when one team falls behind by 12 runs? Just about everybody heads for the exits.
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Hank Greenberg Credited Tigers’ 1940 Pennant to Sign Stealing
From Vintage Detroit: In his 1989 autobiography edited by Ira Berkow, Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life (Times Books), published three[…]
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Wild Bill Donovan And His Windsor Bride Were The Tigers’ First Celebrity Couple
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.
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Card of the Week: Steve Kemp, 1979 Topps
By Sebastian Oslund What did a Topps baseball card photographer capture on a seemingly random day in the late 1970s[…]
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The Michigan Native Who Umpired the Tigers’ Record-Setting Major League Debut in 1901
When the Detroit Tigers of the newly christened American League debuted in 1901, only one Michigan native took the field.[…]
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