Left to right: Roger Maris, Rocky Colavito (my childhood hero), Norm Cash, and Mickey Mantle:
I heard that the new player agreement called for more off days during the season, so they had to start a little earlier.
The Boys of Summer return to Comerica Park Thursday afternoon in Detroit....BEISBOL IS BACK! After a long cruel winter seeing my Lions and Wolverines miss the playoffs again, my Phoenix Suns suffering through a seemingly perpetual and disturbing "rebuild", and my Red Wings missing the post season for the 2nd straight season after making it for 25 seasons in a row...FINALLY the Tigers are back. But wait, they're also in a rebuild after almost ten winning seasons, 4 straight central division winners, and two World Series (they almost got swept in both). So they might really suck but then again, they might not...which is why they play the games and I watch them.... streamed on MLB.com at the staggering cost of 55 cents a game. Their 7 pm starts during the season are 4 pm my time in Phoenix so it's a nice transition from the work day into the evening. It's the Tigers vs. the Pirates in an inter-league battle....rain is expected but the stadium will be full anyway....it's a cultural event in the Motor City.
what a shitty ugly dump,tiger stadium was 10 times nicer.
whats REALLY funny though is a new stadium has not helped them jack shit in winning another world series like they always used to at old tiger stadium.
Give me the classic old ballparks that have NICE stadiums wrigley field and fenway park any day of the year.
here is the coolest baseball park in the world bar none.a stadium EVERY baseball fan should attend some day if you want to post pics of NICE ballparks.LOL.
only the giants stadium comes as close to them as the coolest stadium in the country.
as i said,the coolest baseball stadium in the world.
the nice cool scoreboard itself ALONE is breathtaking but when you have the fountains lit up at night.? its game over for any other baseball stadium,the colorado rockies TRIED to copy them with the fountains but they are a poor imitation.LOL they cant touched these fountains below.LOL
a pretty and beautiful sight you just cant beat.
Tiger Stadium was a dump when I was a kid...it smelled like piss and ceegar smoke down in the tunnels in the 60's yet lasted another 40 years. But it was a classic alright and everybody from The Babe and Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to Teddy Ballgame (Ted Willams) to Mick and Al Kaline, and later Reggie and Harmon Killebrew sunk cleates into that dirt. They tried everything to save it but the foundation was crumbling after a hundred years and the support posts were beyond repair...Overhead pieces would fall off over the winter but still the diehards fought for it and were crushed when it was finally bulldozed. The field, at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was just rescued and opened for local teams. The stadium itself is gone but they have the original flagpole which was in fair territory in deep center field. The Tigers won four championships there....nowhere near the Yankees gloried past but not bad for a blue-collar city with true-blue fans real close to the field. When we got on an enemy player he could expect to hear things about his mother, if he had skinny legs or a unibrow, or what kind of slump he was in, and if he was an outfielder could expect to have hot coins winged at him....I remember Roger Maris picking up a quarter once that had been made almost red hot with pliers and a cigarette lighter....he dropped it like a....uh, hot coin and was shaking his hand and swearing about his burnt fingers....of course we roared laughter and never let him forget it in later visits. It was said if a player got V.D. from a chippy, Tigers fans would hear about it and hound the guy mercilessly. What a place.
I've never been to Comerica but from what I see from the broadcasts it's pretty nice, with the Lions stadium right next door and the Wings/Pistons brand new stadium just up the street. Thankfully the artificial turf yards are a thing of the past...never understood how an owner would want his team to play on a carpet over concrete 81 times a year...the number of foot, ankle, knee, and hip problems had to be anticipated....how much can it cost to grow and mow grass?
Before interleague play we drove from Phoenix over to Anaheim to see the Tigers. With the old GM Camaro and Firebird plants in Van Nuys, the transplanted Detroit boys showed up in huge numbers....we usually outnumbered the Angels fans. No interest in any of the other stadiums although the one they built in Baltimore awhile back looked pretty neat with that old factory building as one of the walls. I've seen the Tigers play here in Phoenix a couple years....pretty cool that Detroit finally followed me to the Valley of the Sun.
Cool story about old Tiger Stadium, which until 1960 was Briggs Stadium, and before they built the grandstands, Navin Field. One Friday night, Stormin' Norman Cash hit a ball over the RF roof and on the fly, hit a car across the street at a lumber yard and broke it's windshield. The owner got a new windshield that afternoon and sure enough, that night Cash hit another HR over the RF roof, hit the same car and broke it's new windshield.
Left to right: Roger Maris, Rocky Colavito (my childhood hero), Norm Cash, and Mickey Mantle:
The Boys of Summer return to Comerica Park Thursday afternoon in Detroit....BEISBOL IS BACK! After a long cruel winter seeing my Lions and Wolverines miss the playoffs again, my Phoenix Suns suffering through a seemingly perpetual and disturbing "rebuild", and my Red Wings missing the post season for the 2nd straight season after making it for 25 seasons in a row...FINALLY the Tigers are back. But wait, they're also in a rebuild after almost ten winning seasons, 4 straight central division winners, and two World Series (they almost got swept in both). So they might really suck but then again, they might not...which is why they play the games and I watch them.... streamed on MLB.com at the staggering cost of 55 cents a game. Their 7 pm starts during the season are 4 pm my time in Phoenix so it's a nice transition from the work day into the evening. It's the Tigers vs. the Pirates in an inter-league battle....rain is expected but the stadium will be full anyway....it's a cultural event in the Motor City.
what a shitty ugly dump,tiger stadium was 10 times nicer.
whats REALLY funny though is a new stadium has not helped them jack shit in winning another world series like they always used to at old tiger stadium.
Give me the classic old ballparks that have NICE stadiums wrigley field and fenway park any day of the year.
here is the coolest baseball park in the world bar none.a stadium EVERY baseball fan should attend some day if you want to post pics of NICE ballparks.LOL.
only the giants stadium comes as close to them as the coolest stadium in the country.
as i said,the coolest baseball stadium in the world.
the nice cool scoreboard itself ALONE is breathtaking but when you have the fountains lit up at night.? its game over for any other baseball stadium,the colorado rockies TRIED to copy them with the fountains but they are a poor imitation.LOL they cant touched these fountains below.LOL
a pretty and beautiful sight you just cant beat.
Tiger Stadium was a dump when I was a kid...it smelled like piss and ceegar smoke down in the tunnels in the 60's yet lasted another 40 years. But it was a classic alright and everybody from The Babe and Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to Teddy Ballgame (Ted Willams) to Mick and Al Kaline, and later Reggie and Harmon Killebrew sunk cleates into that dirt. They tried everything to save it but the foundation was crumbling after a hundred years and the support posts were beyond repair...Overhead pieces would fall off over the winter but still the diehards fought for it and were crushed when it was finally bulldozed. The field, at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was just rescued and opened for local teams. The stadium itself is gone but they have the original flagpole which was in fair territory in deep center field. The Tigers won four championships there....nowhere near the Yankees gloried past but not bad for a blue-collar city with true-blue fans real close to the field. When we got on an enemy player he could expect to hear things about his mother, if he had skinny legs or a unibrow, or what kind of slump he was in, and if he was an outfielder could expect to have hot coins winged at him....I remember Roger Maris picking up a quarter once that had been made almost red hot with pliers and a cigarette lighter....he dropped it like a....uh, hot coin and was shaking his hand and swearing about his burnt fingers....of course we roared laughter and never let him forget it in later visits. It was said if a player got V.D. from a chippy, Tigers fans would hear about it and hound the guy mercilessly. What a place.
I like Comerica Park just fine, better than Tigers Stadium, but I'm not going there in March, April and no night game until the middle of June.
I've been to Tiger Stadium a few hundred times starting in the late '60 with my dad. In the early- mid 80's I was going fifty plus times a year.
Now me and the wife, son or buddy only go 10-12 times, mostly in July- August.
Tiger Stadium is now gone and has been replaced by an PAL park. I was in Detroit last weekend at Eastern Market and drove by there it is a pretty cool place.
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i LOVE how you see that the Royals stadium is the best you have seen.
Its funny that you mentioned the royals and dodgers stadium as your favorites because the irony is i once talked to Pete Lacock who was a utility player for both the royals and cubs and since he got to play in BOTH leagues,i asked him when i saw him about five years ago,what his favorite ballpark was that he got to play in and he as well said the royals and dodgers also and he has been to the newer ballparks like chase field as well so you are not alone.
i have seen a few of the ballparks but dodger stadium i have not had the pleasure yet.
The Boys of Summer return to Comerica Park Thursday afternoon in Detroit....BEISBOL IS BACK! After a long cruel winter seeing my Lions and Wolverines miss the playoffs again, my Phoenix Suns suffering through a seemingly perpetual and disturbing "rebuild", and my Red Wings missing the post season for the 2nd straight season after making it for 25 seasons in a row...FINALLY the Tigers are back. But wait, they're also in a rebuild after almost ten winning seasons, 4 straight central division winners, and two World Series (they almost got swept in both). So they might really suck but then again, they might not...which is why they play the games and I watch them.... streamed on MLB.com at the staggering cost of 55 cents a game. Their 7 pm starts during the season are 4 pm my time in Phoenix so it's a nice transition from the work day into the evening. It's the Tigers vs. the Pirates in an inter-league battle....rain is expected but the stadium will be full anyway....it's a cultural event in the Motor City.
what a shitty ugly dump,tiger stadium was 10 times nicer.
whats REALLY funny though is a new stadium has not helped them jack shit in winning another world series like they always used to at old tiger stadium.
Give me the classic old ballparks that have NICE stadiums wrigley field and fenway park any day of the year.
here is the coolest baseball park in the world bar none.a stadium EVERY baseball fan should attend some day if you want to post pics of NICE ballparks.LOL.
only the giants stadium comes as close to them as the coolest stadium in the country.
as i said,the coolest baseball stadium in the world.
the nice cool scoreboard itself ALONE is breathtaking but when you have the fountains lit up at night.? its game over for any other baseball stadium,the colorado rockies TRIED to copy them with the fountains but they are a poor imitation.LOL they cant touched these fountains below.LOL
a pretty and beautiful sight you just cant beat.
Tiger Stadium was a dump when I was a kid...it smelled like piss and ceegar smoke down in the tunnels in the 60's yet lasted another 40 years. But it was a classic alright and everybody from The Babe and Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to Teddy Ballgame (Ted Willams) to Mick and Al Kaline, and later Reggie and Harmon Killebrew sunk cleates into that dirt. They tried everything to save it but the foundation was crumbling after a hundred years and the support posts were beyond repair...Overhead pieces would fall off over the winter but still the diehards fought for it and were crushed when it was finally bulldozed. The field, at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was just rescued and opened for local teams. The stadium itself is gone but they have the original flagpole which was in fair territory in deep center field. The Tigers won four championships there....nowhere near the Yankees gloried past but not bad for a blue-collar city with true-blue fans real close to the field. When we got on an enemy player he could expect to hear things about his mother, if he had skinny legs or a unibrow, or what kind of slump he was in, and if he was an outfielder could expect to have hot coins winged at him....I remember Roger Maris picking up a quarter once that had been made almost red hot with pliers and a cigarette lighter....he dropped it like a....uh, hot coin and was shaking his hand and swearing about his burnt fingers....of course we roared laughter and never let him forget it in later visits. It was said if a player got V.D. from a chippy, Tigers fans would hear about it and hound the guy mercilessly. What a place.
I like Comerica Park just fine, better than Tigers Stadium, but I'm not going there in March, April and no night game until the middle of June.
I've been to Tiger Stadium a few hundred times starting in the late '60 with my dad. In the early- mid 80's I was going fifty plus times a year.
Now me and the wife, son or buddy only go 10-12 times, mostly in July- August.
Tiger Stadium is now gone and has been replaced by an PAL park. I was in Detroit last weekend at Eastern Market and drove by there it is a pretty cool place.
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glad you like that shithole so much,give me tiger stadium ANYDAY of the year over that craphole.
The Boys of Summer return to Comerica Park Thursday afternoon in Detroit....BEISBOL IS BACK! After a long cruel winter seeing my Lions and Wolverines miss the playoffs again, my Phoenix Suns suffering through a seemingly perpetual and disturbing "rebuild", and my Red Wings missing the post season for the 2nd straight season after making it for 25 seasons in a row...FINALLY the Tigers are back. But wait, they're also in a rebuild after almost ten winning seasons, 4 straight central division winners, and two World Series (they almost got swept in both). So they might really suck but then again, they might not...which is why they play the games and I watch them.... streamed on MLB.com at the staggering cost of 55 cents a game. Their 7 pm starts during the season are 4 pm my time in Phoenix so it's a nice transition from the work day into the evening. It's the Tigers vs. the Pirates in an inter-league battle....rain is expected but the stadium will be full anyway....it's a cultural event in the Motor City.
what a shitty ugly dump,tiger stadium was 10 times nicer.
whats REALLY funny though is a new stadium has not helped them jack shit in winning another world series like they always used to at old tiger stadium.
Give me the classic old ballparks that have NICE stadiums wrigley field and fenway park any day of the year.
here is the coolest baseball park in the world bar none.a stadium EVERY baseball fan should attend some day if you want to post pics of NICE ballparks.LOL.
only the giants stadium comes as close to them as the coolest stadium in the country.
as i said,the coolest baseball stadium in the world.
the nice cool scoreboard itself ALONE is breathtaking but when you have the fountains lit up at night.? its game over for any other baseball stadium,the colorado rockies TRIED to copy them with the fountains but they are a poor imitation.LOL they cant touched these fountains below.LOL
a pretty and beautiful sight you just cant beat.
Tiger Stadium was a dump when I was a kid...it smelled like piss and ceegar smoke down in the tunnels in the 60's yet lasted another 40 years. But it was a classic alright and everybody from The Babe and Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to Teddy Ballgame (Ted Willams) to Mick and Al Kaline, and later Reggie and Harmon Killebrew sunk cleates into that dirt. They tried everything to save it but the foundation was crumbling after a hundred years and the support posts were beyond repair...Overhead pieces would fall off over the winter but still the diehards fought for it and were crushed when it was finally bulldozed. The field, at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was just rescued and opened for local teams. The stadium itself is gone but they have the original flagpole which was in fair territory in deep center field. The Tigers won four championships there....nowhere near the Yankees gloried past but not bad for a blue-collar city with true-blue fans real close to the field. When we got on an enemy player he could expect to hear things about his mother, if he had skinny legs or a unibrow, or what kind of slump he was in, and if he was an outfielder could expect to have hot coins winged at him....I remember Roger Maris picking up a quarter once that had been made almost red hot with pliers and a cigarette lighter....he dropped it like a....uh, hot coin and was shaking his hand and swearing about his burnt fingers....of course we roared laughter and never let him forget it in later visits. It was said if a player got V.D. from a chippy, Tigers fans would hear about it and hound the guy mercilessly. What a place.
I like Comerica Park just fine, better than Tigers Stadium, but I'm not going there in March, April and no night game until the middle of June.
I've been to Tiger Stadium a few hundred times starting in the late '60 with my dad. In the early- mid 80's I was going fifty plus times a year.
Now me and the wife, son or buddy only go 10-12 times, mostly in July- August.
Tiger Stadium is now gone and has been replaced by an PAL park. I was in Detroit last weekend at Eastern Market and drove by there it is a pretty cool place.
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glad you like that shithole so much,give me tiger stadium ANYDAY of the year over that craphole.
I'll take Minute Maid Park over both.
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The Boys of Summer return to Comerica Park Thursday afternoon in Detroit....BEISBOL IS BACK! After a long cruel winter seeing my Lions and Wolverines miss the playoffs again, my Phoenix Suns suffering through a seemingly perpetual and disturbing "rebuild", and my Red Wings missing the post season for the 2nd straight season after making it for 25 seasons in a row...FINALLY the Tigers are back. But wait, they're also in a rebuild after almost ten winning seasons, 4 straight central division winners, and two World Series (they almost got swept in both). So they might really suck but then again, they might not...which is why they play the games and I watch them.... streamed on MLB.com at the staggering cost of 55 cents a game. Their 7 pm starts during the season are 4 pm my time in Phoenix so it's a nice transition from the work day into the evening. It's the Tigers vs. the Pirates in an inter-league battle....rain is expected but the stadium will be full anyway....it's a cultural event in the Motor City.
what a shitty ugly dump,tiger stadium was 10 times nicer.
whats REALLY funny though is a new stadium has not helped them jack shit in winning another world series like they always used to at old tiger stadium.
Give me the classic old ballparks that have NICE stadiums wrigley field and fenway park any day of the year.
here is the coolest baseball park in the world bar none.a stadium EVERY baseball fan should attend some day if you want to post pics of NICE ballparks.LOL.
only the giants stadium comes as close to them as the coolest stadium in the country.
as i said,the coolest baseball stadium in the world.
the nice cool scoreboard itself ALONE is breathtaking but when you have the fountains lit up at night.? its game over for any other baseball stadium,the colorado rockies TRIED to copy them with the fountains but they are a poor imitation.LOL they cant touched these fountains below.LOL
a pretty and beautiful sight you just cant beat.
Tiger Stadium was a dump when I was a kid...it smelled like piss and ceegar smoke down in the tunnels in the 60's yet lasted another 40 years. But it was a classic alright and everybody from The Babe and Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to Teddy Ballgame (Ted Willams) to Mick and Al Kaline, and later Reggie and Harmon Killebrew sunk cleates into that dirt. They tried everything to save it but the foundation was crumbling after a hundred years and the support posts were beyond repair...Overhead pieces would fall off over the winter but still the diehards fought for it and were crushed when it was finally bulldozed. The field, at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was just rescued and opened for local teams. The stadium itself is gone but they have the original flagpole which was in fair territory in deep center field. The Tigers won four championships there....nowhere near the Yankees gloried past but not bad for a blue-collar city with true-blue fans real close to the field. When we got on an enemy player he could expect to hear things about his mother, if he had skinny legs or a unibrow, or what kind of slump he was in, and if he was an outfielder could expect to have hot coins winged at him....I remember Roger Maris picking up a quarter once that had been made almost red hot with pliers and a cigarette lighter....he dropped it like a....uh, hot coin and was shaking his hand and swearing about his burnt fingers....of course we roared laughter and never let him forget it in later visits. It was said if a player got V.D. from a chippy, Tigers fans would hear about it and hound the guy mercilessly. What a place.
I like Comerica Park just fine, better than Tigers Stadium, but I'm not going there in March, April and no night game until the middle of June.
I've been to Tiger Stadium a few hundred times starting in the late '60 with my dad. In the early- mid 80's I was going fifty plus times a year.
Now me and the wife, son or buddy only go 10-12 times, mostly in July- August.
Tiger Stadium is now gone and has been replaced by an PAL park. I was in Detroit last weekend at Eastern Market and drove by there it is a pretty cool place.
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glad you like that shithole so much,give me tiger stadium ANYDAY of the year over that craphole.
I'll take Minute Maid Park over both.
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well it easily beats that dump comerica park,no contest,but thats comedy gold to take that over royals stadium.LOL it has the same problem shit hole camerica park does,a bunch of buildings in the background,the LAST thing i want to look at when i go to a ballpark is look at a bunch of work buildings and high rises.
The Boys of Summer return to Comerica Park Thursday afternoon in Detroit....BEISBOL IS BACK! After a long cruel winter seeing my Lions and Wolverines miss the playoffs again, my Phoenix Suns suffering through a seemingly perpetual and disturbing "rebuild", and my Red Wings missing the post season for the 2nd straight season after making it for 25 seasons in a row...FINALLY the Tigers are back. But wait, they're also in a rebuild after almost ten winning seasons, 4 straight central division winners, and two World Series (they almost got swept in both). So they might really suck but then again, they might not...which is why they play the games and I watch them.... streamed on MLB.com at the staggering cost of 55 cents a game. Their 7 pm starts during the season are 4 pm my time in Phoenix so it's a nice transition from the work day into the evening. It's the Tigers vs. the Pirates in an inter-league battle....rain is expected but the stadium will be full anyway....it's a cultural event in the Motor City.
what a shitty ugly dump,tiger stadium was 10 times nicer.
whats REALLY funny though is a new stadium has not helped them jack shit in winning another world series like they always used to at old tiger stadium.
Give me the classic old ballparks that have NICE stadiums wrigley field and fenway park any day of the year.
here is the coolest baseball park in the world bar none.a stadium EVERY baseball fan should attend some day if you want to post pics of NICE ballparks.LOL.
only the giants stadium comes as close to them as the coolest stadium in the country.
as i said,the coolest baseball stadium in the world.
the nice cool scoreboard itself ALONE is breathtaking but when you have the fountains lit up at night.? its game over for any other baseball stadium,the colorado rockies TRIED to copy them with the fountains but they are a poor imitation.LOL they cant touched these fountains below.LOL
a pretty and beautiful sight you just cant beat.
Tiger Stadium was a dump when I was a kid...it smelled like piss and ceegar smoke down in the tunnels in the 60's yet lasted another 40 years. But it was a classic alright and everybody from The Babe and Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to Teddy Ballgame (Ted Willams) to Mick and Al Kaline, and later Reggie and Harmon Killebrew sunk cleates into that dirt. They tried everything to save it but the foundation was crumbling after a hundred years and the support posts were beyond repair...Overhead pieces would fall off over the winter but still the diehards fought for it and were crushed when it was finally bulldozed. The field, at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was just rescued and opened for local teams. The stadium itself is gone but they have the original flagpole which was in fair territory in deep center field. The Tigers won four championships there....nowhere near the Yankees gloried past but not bad for a blue-collar city with true-blue fans real close to the field. When we got on an enemy player he could expect to hear things about his mother, if he had skinny legs or a unibrow, or what kind of slump he was in, and if he was an outfielder could expect to have hot coins winged at him....I remember Roger Maris picking up a quarter once that had been made almost red hot with pliers and a cigarette lighter....he dropped it like a....uh, hot coin and was shaking his hand and swearing about his burnt fingers....of course we roared laughter and never let him forget it in later visits. It was said if a player got V.D. from a chippy, Tigers fans would hear about it and hound the guy mercilessly. What a place.
I like Comerica Park just fine, better than Tigers Stadium, but I'm not going there in March, April and no night game until the middle of June.
I've been to Tiger Stadium a few hundred times starting in the late '60 with my dad. In the early- mid 80's I was going fifty plus times a year.
Now me and the wife, son or buddy only go 10-12 times, mostly in July- August.
Tiger Stadium is now gone and has been replaced by an PAL park. I was in Detroit last weekend at Eastern Market and drove by there it is a pretty cool place.
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glad you like that shithole so much,give me tiger stadium ANYDAY of the year over that craphole.
I'll take Minute Maid Park over both.
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