Tiger Stadium

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• Celebrating Al Kaline on His 75th Birthday

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  For baby boomers like me who grew up idolizing Tiger Hall of Famer Al Kaline, I must say I feel a lot older knowing that Number Six turns 75-years old today. It is hard to believe. For 57 years Kaline has been “Mr. Tiger”– first as a Hall of Famer ball player for 22 seasons, then as a broadcaster with the ...
  12 hours ago

• The Detroit Lions’ Last Game at Tiger Stadium

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  Thirty five years ago this past Thanksgiving, the era of Lions football in the Great Outdoors ended when the team lost to Denver 31-27 at Tiger Stadium. It was the last Detroit Lions game ever played at the fabled ballpark. The following year the team headed out to the Pontiac Silverdome. In front of a crowd of 51, ...
  2 days ago

• Remembering the Detroit Tigers’ “Durango Kid”

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  We heard today from a former Tiger and were promptly jerked back the better part of half a century – to a time when rookie ballplayers, even ones who’d made it all the way to the big show, were approachable and often were fan favorites more for being personable than for anything they did between the foul lines. ...
  1 week ago

• Remembering Detroit Lions’ Legend Alex Karras

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  He was called “The Mad Duck,” “Tippy Toes,” and “Pig” by his teammates who were often victims of his practical jokes. Bigger than life on and off the field, Alex Karras became one of the game’s greatest defensive tackles in a brilliant and sometimes stormy All Pro career before moving to Hollywood and ...
  1 week ago

• Ernie Harwell Steals the Show Monday Night at Grosse Pointe Fundraiser

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  On Monday night at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, a fundraiser for the Patriot Scholarship Fund was held that featured, as advertised, a discussion of the ’84 Tiger championship season by none other than Alan Trammell and Kirk Gibson. The Scholarship Fund was created through the leadership of Gary Spicer, Ernie ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Shocking Trade of Detroit Lions Legend Bobby Layne

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  Bobby Layne was a late-night carouser who loved Cutty Sark, cards, gambling, jazz, a roomful of drinking buddies singing “Ida Red”, and picking up the tab enhanced with a huge tip. Considered to be the first “two minute quarterback”, the swashbuckling ‘ramblin,’ gamblin’ Texan relished the challenge of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Images From Vacant Tiger Stadium Site

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  The demolition crews have finally left.  Cochrane Street has been reopened to traffic.  The corner of Michigan & Trumbull is now officially a vacant, open field. There are three remnants of Tiger Stadium that remain: the centerfield flag pole, a wall constructed in 1993 along Michigan Avenue when Tiger Plaza ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Game That Made Mark Fidrych Famous — June 28, 1976

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  It’s been seven months since Detroit Tigers legend Mark Fidrych died — and I’m still sad.  It seems like a chain reaction of sorts was set off this year as one Tigers celebrity after another left us.  Fidrych and George Kell both passed away at the start of the 2009 baseball season and Ernie Harwell ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tiger Stadium Slide Show Sure to Bring Back Fond Memories

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  Do you remember how truly beautiful Tiger Stadium was when it was white with green trim?  Do you remember the windows that tilted outward toward the sidewalks below? If you’re longing for the days of your childhood, I’ve got just the slide show for you.  A stadium fan by the name of Bob Busser has posted tons ...
  4 weeks ago

• Remembering the Detroit Tigers’ Duke of Earl

  
  Detroit Athletic Co. Blog — Authority: 126
  When he died of a massive heart attack in April of 2005, Robert Earl Wilson, the elegant Duke of Earl, left behind a void that went far beyond the parameters of the baseball field. Although forever worshipped in Detroit as part of the beloved 1968 Tigers World Championship team, Earl actually came up in the Boston ...
  4 weeks ago

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