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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 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?
Tiger Stadium Memories
Like that is ever going to happen.What planet are you on,this is Detroit and I'm still hanging in there,but let's get real.Just like one of the responders said,let's clean up the bombed out neighborhoods first,like that's going to ever happen either, and then let's worry about Tiger Stadium.
Tiger Stadium Memories
What's an itiot?
Tiger Stadium Memories
Going to games,including openers with my mom and dad, school groups and little league buddies,absolutely priceless.As I got older parking with Mac and grabbing a beer and shooting the breeze with Hoot.Those were the days!
Tiger Stadium Memories
I remeber when tiger stadium was full of itiots
Tiger Stadium Memories
I was the perfect age during the 68 season. Was at McLain's 30th. Against the A's and I think Reggie hit two that afternoon. Best memory though was playing in Tiger Stadium for a high school city championship game. Too kool.
Tiger Stadium Memories
I grew up in Detroit, and attended at least 100 games. The entire season of "76" was the most fun I ever had being a Tigers fan. It was all about the "Bird". Anyone who was there when Fidrych sprinted out to the mound, talked to the ball, then blew it by the hitter time after time that season, knows exactly what I'm talking about. In fact I don't think I've ever enjoyed being a Tigers fan more than that that very special summer. Thanks for the great memories old girl, I miss you dearly.
Tiger Stadium Memories
Hey fliptheswitchoff" & Gepetto
What kind of idiots are you two?, the blog is called "Tiger Stadium Memories".
When people like you write like you do, you're simply telling us that your part of the problem and not the solution. You guys gotta be real fun to come home to every night.
I'm 54 years old and my father took my brother and I to over 200 ballgames at Tiger stadium. I live for and through those memories. In a way I feel sorry for people like you who must have missed something in life.
A fan in the Thumb
Tiger Stadium Memories
I was there in '84. Tigers vs Padres World Series. What a great place, I will never forget Tiger Stadium. Give Ernie whatever he needs to keep that place alive. People always regret when they rid something. If you are over 60, spend it, if you can't spend it, charge it! and call it a day.
TIGER STADIUM MEMORIES
Just a few of the better memories: - My friends and I riding our bike's to 7 mile and Grand River to catch the bus to the Stadium, we were probably only 13 to 15 years old and our parent's didn't know where we went! Oh, how times have changed, huh? - Trying to outsmart the usher's and get down to the dugout for an autograph.
- Sitting in the bleachers for a couple of bucks on a hot, sunny Saturday afternoon watching the increasingly drunk guy's get increasingly agitated with the player's. Extrememly funny.
- Sitting in Kaline's corner (best seats in the house) and hooting on the poor opposing team's right fielder.
- Sitting with and learning the game from my Dad in the late 60's.
- Sitting with and teaching the game to my son in the late 90's.
- craning my neck around a pole in the last row of section Q to watch the Bird.
- Watching Game 3 in 84 from the bleachers with my Dad who watched the 45 series with his Dad from those same bleachers.
Could list a hundred more, but I'm starting to mist up, some of you understand. See you at the park...
Tiger Stadium Memories
My favorite memory is of Bat Day, June 14, 1969 when my Dad took me, my cousin, and a friend. Willy Horton hit his 11th and 12th homeruns that day. We were sitting in the first row box in the left field upper deck and my Dad caught Willy's 12th. We still have the ball. Bat day was awesome. 55,000 people banging those bats in cadence. I saw Denny McLain try and win his 32nd game of the year against Washington in 1968 and he lost. Everything was so green then, the grass and the stadium too. It was a very cool place for a kid. The walkways to get to the upper deck seats and the girders. I can still remember the batting order from the 68 team. MacAuleff, Stanley, Kaline, Horton, Cash, Northrup, Freehan, Wert, and the Pitcher. Jim Northrup wasn't an everyday player but was a good hitter so in the 68 series Mickey Stanley was moved to short and Northrup played center. His Grand Slam in the 10 run 3rd inning of game 6 when Denny McLain won his only WS game was great. What a rotation. McLain 31 - 6, Lolich 17 - 9, Earl Wilson 12 - 10 but who could hit home runs, and I think Sparma was there then. Pat Dobson and John Hiller. I can still see Al Kaline standing in the on deck circle looking right directly at me. We were so close to the game. I wish it could have lasted forever.
Tiger Stadium memories
Growing up in Michigan back in 1993, I'd went to several Tiger games against the California Angels and Toronto Blue Jays and stayed for the fireworks and laser show afterwards. I recall we went up to the next level to get a better view of the show after the second game, but accidentally left the white hat (with the Tigers written in block letters across it, I believe) I'd been wearing at my old seat. Sometimes I wonder if anyone ever claimed that hat for themselves.
I've since moved out of state, but I still remember the stadium. To everyone who's ever been to a ballgame, cherish the experience; I know that I always will.
Tiger Stadium memories
OK, I forgot a big one.
9. Watching Willie Horton bat. There was just something about his body language, that Rasso and I could just about always predict when he would put it in the seats on the next pitch.
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