Tom Stanton attended every home game of the 1999 season at Tiger Stadium. He wasn’t that interested in that year’s games or team, he was trying to pay tribute to a place that contained rich memories of his father and grandfather, and to soak in as much of the sights, sounds, and smells of the historic ballpark before it closed.
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Childhood friends Mickey Briggs and Elliott Trumbull reminisce about days at Briggs Stadium and a Tigers game in 1950 that went down as the greatest they had ever witnessed.
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The thing I will miss most about Tiger Stadium are all the empty seats. Not on game day. But when the game is over. How many days, how many nights, did I sit in the press box when the game was over and our work was done and look out at the empty stadium. The ushers and guards had gone home and the groundscrew was finished with their work and all that remained were those empty seats. Those lovely empty seats.
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Imagine being a teenager in 1940s Detroit and taking the street car to Michigan and Trumbull to watch the Tigers[…]
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A new documentary on opera singer Luciano Pavarotti includes scenes from his appearance at Tiger Stadium. From the Detroit Free[…]
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By Dan Epstein in Rolling Stone: On a warm Detroit evening this past August, I found myself standing atop the[…]
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