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It is a shame some investor didn't come forward in time to stop this from happening.

This is really a sad day. Lots of memories there.

Lee, its killing me. I want to drive by it, I just can't. I'm having a real tough time with this. I was talking to some guys at work, who are also having a tough time with it. We all agreed its like one more link to our youth being taken away. We all have our individual stories. Maybe that would be a good forum in its own right.

My mom and I ate in Mexicantown after the game yesterday and I drove by it on the way home. Had I known construction was beginning today, I would have stopped and drove/walked around it a bit more.

I still remember walking out of the tunnel into the stands and seeing the green of the field. I've never seen a green so GREEN. I remember seeing Bill Madlock hit three home runs in one game and the Tigers hitting back-to-back-to-back HRs in the bottom of the 9th to force extra innings then Trammel knocking in the winning run in extra innings. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/...6280.shtml I remember how the stands would SHAKE when when the crowd got loud.

I really wish they had spent the Comerica Park money to refurbish Tiger Stadium instead.

And now we can demolish Tiger Stadium without a plan so there will be an empty lot.....

Man that's rough. I made a point to drive by when I went back for the Stanley Cup game, tons of memories.

My buds and I laughed like crazy at the thought of four fourteen year old kids fibbing to one of the parents that we had tickets, getting a ride down, hanging out until the 5th or so when security would walk back up the ramps and watch the game, we could just waltz right in, right into the bleachers. They were only $2.00 at the time, not very tight on checking, and if an usher did stay put, we just walked around.

That 84 year was stellar, but I personally enjoyed 87 that much more, what a great run to win the division from Toronto, all the celebrating, pregame at Hoots, heading to Reedys after the game, ugh, just too much character around there to be tore down.

I went to the Cards game last Wed. and drove by Tiger Stadium going in. I'd read they had started demo, but I didn't see anything going on from Michigan Ave.

With Kwami and his crowd still in charge it's no wonder nothing ever happened in terms of restoration, or at least a partial restoration. Frankly, I'll be surprised if they can even get it demoed in a timely fashion. The old train station (not far away) has not been demoed because they'd like to restore it. Of course, they've been saying that for 20 years now. So it sits, and sits, and sits, and collects wine bottles and human excrement. Truly a monument to Detroit.

Sadly, there are still thousands of seats left in the stadium, and they'll throw them in a dumpster before they'll sell them for $20 a piece. I know they had a sale already, it's just a shame so many of those seats will go to waste.

After the remove the steel and concrete they should use the empty lot to create a baseball diamond for the local kids to play on. Just like they did in Cleveland.

May have had a lot of memories for you, but Tiger Stadium was a poor place to view a baseball game-with all the steel posts and all. Comerica Parks is 10 times the baseball field TS was. And the neighborhood is FAR better now. Detroit has done a good job bringing the venues all back downtown and in close proximity to one another.

Quote:Tiger Stadium was a poor place to view a baseball game-with all the steel posts and all.

I disagree. A lot of that depends on your seats of course, but those posts allowed you to have some of the closest seats to the action of any stadium in baseball. The upper deck seats in Tiger Stadium were the BEST upper deck seats ever, in any stadium. The 5% of obstructed view seats allow a good 40% of the stadium seats to be closer.

When the next baseball stadium renaissance occurs, I hope stadiums bring posts back.

The place is a dump and needs to go. (as do most of the buildings in detroit)

Sorry old guys. It just needs to happen.

I have a lot of respect for tradition, but I can't see how anyone can argue CMP is 10 times the stadium for viewing baseball that Tiger Stadium was. TS was old and decrepit. It was a dump, frankly. And I saw a LOT of games there. CMP is much, much nicer. And the area surrounding the field is MUCH nicer-used to feel if you weren't packing heat don't go to Tiger Stadium. That's not the case now.

Change can be good, so long as it's not just for change's sake.

Nostalgia can keep us bound to traditions of the past whose time have come and gone.

Tiger Stadium was host to some of the most memorable events in baseball (and NFL too for that matter) history. But once the decision to build new instead of renovate was made, this day was inevitable.

BroncoPhilly Wrote:I have a lot of respect for tradition, but I can't see how anyone can argue CMP is 10 times the stadium for viewing baseball that Tiger Stadium was. TS was old and decrepit. It was a dump, frankly. And I saw a LOT of games there. CMP is much, much nicer. And the area surrounding the field is MUCH nicer-used to feel if you weren't packing heat don't go to Tiger Stadium. That's not the case now.

Oh, there is no doubt Tiger Stadium is 10x the stadium for viewing a game than Comerica. As ElFan said, the posts brought people that much closer to the action. Comerica, in an attempt to remove posts, pushed all the stands so far back, there are many seats where in the upper deck you can't see what's going on because you're so far back and in the lower deck you can only see half the field because you don't have a good viewing angle of the field.

The Upper Deck Box seats at Tiger Stadium were the best seats EVER to watch a baseball game.

There are still a bunch of "obstructed view" seats at Comerica Park too. The seats down the row from mine are marked as such because the rails above the section entrance have railings and glass that get in the way when looking at the infield.

I love watching games at Comerica, I like the open concourse and the the area around it..... BUT, not very many cities had a ballpark built in 1912. I would have loved to be able to tell a story about how I went to the 100 year anny for the thing, but the city/owners dropped the ball by not renovating the place throughout the years and keeping it in up-to-date.

So far, out of the new MLB parks I have been to, I like Seattles and San Francisco's the best. Denvers is a great place to see a game as well. Comerica, it REALLY depends where you get seats, more so than the others.

We've basically rebuilt MLB with our tax dollars, you all should be proud, otherwise, those poor owners couldn't afford to make their payrolls.

BroncoPhilly Wrote:I have a lot of respect for tradition

My generation doesn't. And we'll be running the country soon.

Man, what a dick.

Nothing speaks louder about the "Me Generation". Thanks for sharing JS.

Always proud to be a Bronco.

My....my...MY GENERATION...!!!

One thing about these old barns you have to remember is the maintenance it takes just to keep the things in some semblance of working order. Old plumbing and electric systems just have to be a nightmare to keep up. And Tiger Stadium sat outside 365 days of the year just getting pounded by the elements. It lasted a lot longer than the cookie cutter 70's stadium (Pittsburgh and Cincianatti to name a few).

I too have plenty of fond memories there. I went to some games in 68, saw the Bird pitch there, and heckled the heck out of Burt Capanarias the year after he threw the bat at the pitcher.

^ Tom Timmerman. That LCS was one of the better ones, too bad the A's went on to win it....