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Briggs / Tiger Stadium
Wooden planks for bleacher seats in dead center field. "Real" souvenir bat for only a buck. I have Al Kaline and Norm Cash bats from 61'. The huge flag pole with Old Glory waving in the breeze in deep center. Peanut vendors outside the park. The famous "troughs" in the men's room. Banging the old wooden seats in unison and making the whole park vibrate. Last but not least...last game...listening to the ball roll off the upper deck roof and back down on to the field from the "last grand slam" at the old ball park!
Las Vegas = you are officially being ignored!
Check out the video
I'd rather turn my chair around and watch the wall
Check out the video
http://brucespringsteen.net It's about Giants Stadium, but I feel it relates just as strongly to The Stadium.
Tiger Stadium Died Today
YEEAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!
Tiger Stadium Died Today
I was perfectly happy with Tiger Stadium. Went to hundreds and hundreds of games. Easy parking, never waited in line for the bathroom, adjusted to the rare obstructed view seat. The food was excellent, the people at the park were cordial, the views were close and terrific. It was quieter at Tiger Stadium; no music blasting over giant speakers to get the crowd excited. All of the noise was generated by the fans, Loved the overhang in RF, the original scoreboard in CF. Saw many crucial games from the grandstand in LF. The bullpens were close to the stands; you could talk to the players and they'd respond and be friendly. For me, the best memories I have of baseball were in that ballpark. I'll never forget the people I went to games with and the relationships we shared. No complaints or tears from me today. Remembering the experiences makes me smile. I'm just glad that I was part of the fun. Time well spent. (I lied. Maybe a bit misty-eyed is closer to the truth).
Tiger Stadium Memories
I can't believe I wasted $3.00 and 3 hours of my life I will never get back .
Tiger Stadium Memories
They can tear down structures, but as long as God lets me remember I'll have memories no one can take.
The video has one slight "flaw"... I WILL let my emotions show, because there is no shame in it when the subject is so personal....
--from a 60 yr young Tiger Lifer...with props to Bob Hope: "Thanks for the Memories....."
Tiger Stadium Tribute
Hope that worked.
Tiger Stadium
Did they tear it down yet?
Tiger Stadium
Tiger Stadium will live forever in our hearts and no matter what the critics say they will never erase the magic of an opening day, the bright lights of a night game, the roar of the crowd, and the wonder of some of the best baseball ever played. Yes all this and so much more is what Tiger Stadium in Corktown means to me.
Tiger Stadium
Tiger Stadium, let me count the ways.....those graceful light towers that looked like beacons you could see for miles away....those crampy, small dugouts....the smell of hot dogs and beer all over those crampy corridors, the 'buzz' always around the corner of Michigan and Trumbull before and after a game...hitting one off the facing of the upper decks in right and left field...and especially the final game at TS in 1999...if you didnt get teary eyed that night you werent human....it was like saying goodbye to a relative that you knew and loved for 50 years or so....also going to Mexican village on Vernor after the game and getting some wonderful tacos, etc....Nemos after, the Lindell AC after in the day and seeing Boog Powell and Earl Weaver looped up, Norm Cash in there loopy doopy plenty of times....there is too much to talk about with TS, and then the idiots in the city council who let it die when they gave no one a creditable chance to save it.....the train station should have been demolished 30 years ago....
Tiger Stadium memories
It was Briggs Stadium to me. An uncle took me and my father to Briggs almost every summer in the 1950s. My first memory is Hoot Evers hitting a home run in the last of the 10th. inning in 1950 to beat the Philadelphia Athletics 2-1. I saw Ted Williams play twice, the best being the Tigers winning a doubleheader with Williams going like 8 for 9 and Charlie "Paw Paw" Maxwell (the Sunday slugger) outhitting Williams in both games. I saw Harvey Kuenn win a game with a homer in the bottom of the ninth. On the losing side Billy Hoeft threw a bunted ball into right field and got clobbered by the Yankees 15-0. My last game there was the summer of '62 with the Tigers rallying for like 7 runs in the bottom of the 9th. but still losing to the White Sox by one run.
My favorites over the years were George Kell, Frank Lary (Yankee killer), Frank Bolling (second base), Ned Garver, Bill Tuttle, Harvey Kuenn, and then later Al Kaline, Bill Freeham, Mickey Lolich, and Dennis McClain to name just a few.
By the way I stuck with the Tigers during their bad times in the 1950s, but then I was just a 9 to 17 year-old - what did I know?
stadium memories
A sold out twilight double header ,Tigers vs Yankees.Al Kaline ripping a home run to center field and Mickey Mantle
pounding one off the facing of the upper deck in left.
Then on the defensive side Willie Horton making one of his famous shoe string catches and tearing up a chunk of sod in left center field.All of this in one glorious evening of baseball at Tiger stadium.
My fondest memories
I remember back to my first ballgame at The Corner in 1977 when I was 10 years old. I can still look at the stadium grounds and see all the people lining the streets along with the venders selling banners, caps and whatnot. I remember the games with Rusty Staub, Mark Fydrich and watching the antics of the grounds keepers when the rain would come in. The old ballpark that began as navin field and went through so many changes over the many years it stood, deserves more than the wrecking ball. It is an historic landmark and needs to be remembered, not wiped from the face of the earth and forgotten. As the video on this site says, it was indeed like Grampa's house and Ernie Harwell was Grampa to all of us fans. The city needs to rethink this and realize it is making a mistake before it is too late.
Tiger stadium
Last time I was there the stadium dirty, smelled of filth, paint flaking from the steel beams.
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