A Tiger Stadium Drive Around

By Byron Bennett | October 15, 2014

Five years ago the last vestiges of Tiger Stadium met the wrecking ball. The decade-long march toward that moment, beginning with the final game on September 27, 1999, culminated with the demolition and removal of the last standing section of the stadium on September 21, 2009. The following video was taken in December 2002, over three years…

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I Still Can’t Believe They Tore Down Tiger Stadium

By Byron Bennett | November 7, 2013

From 1896 until 1999, professional baseball was played in Detroit at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Trumbull Street, or as locals called it, “the Corner.” In the one hundred plus years of baseball at the Corner, there have been four different stadium incarnations. The first was Bennett Park, constructed of wood with room for…

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