Tiger Stadium memories

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....

CyberSurvey: Tiger Stadium demolition

Remember as a teenager going to TS in maybe 66 or 67 and sitting next to two brothers in the Army who were being sent to Vietnam in a few weeks....always wondered whatever happened to them and God bless...I hope they returned safely...they mentioned how they loved baseball and the ball park franks at TS....remember how Hygrade's made a fortune touting those dogs at TS??? Sort of like Ernie Harwell touting STroh's in those days..."Tigers rallying folks, hang onto your Stroh's"......my dad would only buy Stroh's beer because of Ernie and the Tigers.....parking was about 3 bucks back in 66-67 as I remember at any lot around TS and beers there were about 1.50 a bottle....dogs about 75 cents...those were the days and seeing in the mid to latter 60s the Yankees dynasty coming to an end...Mantle, Maris, Kubek, Richardson, Whitey Ford, Elston Howard all getting old and slow together....the end of a dynasty.....