The Site Formerly Known as Tiger Stadium
If my colleague Dayn Perry has taught us anything — besides that drinking in the AM isn’t a crime or anything so shut up everyone I’m not an alcoholic — it’s that everything we love will die.
Confirming that notion is this image, courtesy Google Earth and entirely embiggenable should it have been clicked, of Detroit’s Tiger Stadium as it looks today.
Carson Cistulli says terrible things at The New Enthusiast.
I would say that the image is only semi-embiggenable. I would also say that I road-tripped (as opposed to regular tripped) to see Tiger Stadium in September of it’s final year as a ball park. It’s sad to think that that park could be to the Tigers what Fenway is the Red Sod
or Yankee Stadium is the Yankees, a shining example of baseball’s history in the modern world. Not to mention a cash cow (as opposed to a regular cow).I regular tripped to Tiger Stadium with the aid of a case of Bell’s Deb’s Red Ale and a bag of mushrooms.
That photo seems old. I’ve been by the site and it’s pretty much just a grassy field with not much in the way of anything indicating baseball was played there at this point.
Go drive by today and take a look…..you haven’t been by in at least a year.
That is partially true, I think it was early last spring. I’ll have to take a look I suppose.
Olethros might have the best comment ever:
1) A reference to the best beer ever – Bell’s – breakfast, lunch & dinner in Ann Arbor. Unobtainable on the East Coast.
2) Mushrooms – an essential part of the Michigan experience
3) Ole Tiger Stadium – steel, cyclone fencing & iron girders
If you had only somehow dropped Mike Greenwell into your post (see Rudy Pemberton) baseball glory could have been yours!
olethros says:
December 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm
I regular tripped to Tiger Stadium with the aid of a case of Bell’s Deb’s Red Ale and a bag of mushrooms.
Good news if you live out east, Bell’s is expanding their capacity and once the expansion is done, they will finally be distributing east of PA.
Aw, I’m blushing.
Also, Deb’s Red was a special beer brewed specifically for Eugene V. Debs day at Tiger Stadium. I only got my hands on a case because a) I managed a liquor store in college, and b) they released it to the general public once in commemoration of Tiger Stadium’s final season.
thanks for that wonderful piece of info Nathan
you did sum up my college experience in one sentence