Tiger stadium previously known as navin field and briggs stadium was a baseball park located in the corktown neighborhood of detroit michigan it hosted the detroit tigers of major league baseball from 1912 to 1999 as well as the detroit lions of the national football league from 1938 to 1974.
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June 15 1948 last tigers game.
May 16 1928 december 25 1989 commonly called billy was an american major league baseball second baseman and manager who in addition to leading other teams was five times the manager of the new york yankees first known as a scrappy infielder who made considerable contributions to the championship yankee teams of the 1950s he then built a reputation as a.
April 20 1912 first night game.
It wouldn t take a whole lot of work to get it going again.
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In the 71 all star game oakland s reggie jackson propelled a baseball that crashed into the light tower atop the right field roof.
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Thirty years after williams hit his famous homer into the upper deck at briggs stadium in the midsummer classic another lefthanded slugger was making history in the ballpark.
On july 24 2001 1 500 people saw the motor city marauders play the lake erie monarchs in the first game played there since the tigers were the team in residence.
Norm cash did it 4 times mickey mantle did it 3 times kirk gibson did it 3 times jason thompson did it twice mickey tettlton did it twice tony clark did it twice the following is a list of players that did it once.
Tiger stadium opened in 1912 the same day boston opened fenway park but baseball had been played on the site since 1896 five years before the tigers or the american league existed navin field the original name of the park was built on the site of old bennett park.
It was named after owner frank navin and it was renamed briggs stadium in 1938 two years after walter briggs took over the team.
It was declared a state of michigan historic site in 1975 and has been listed on the national register of.
It hosted the detroit tigers major league baseball team from 1912 99 as well as the national football league s detroit lions from 1938 74.
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Tiger stadium detroit tigers 1912 1999 by kevin reichard on december 1 2007 in major league baseball visits its first day was overshadowed by the news the titanic hit an iceberg and sunk in.
September 27 1999 surface.
It was a monstrous blast.
Listed is a 1971 mlb all star game tiger stadium detroit reggie hits historic roof top hr you knew it was going to be a different type of an all star game when dock ellis served up a dandy for the sports writers in the days leading up to the contest ain t no way ellis who was black told reporters they gonna start two brothers against each other in the all star game ellis was pitching.
Tiger stadium previously known as navin field and briggs stadium was a baseball park located in the corktown neighborhood of detroit michigan.
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