The History of Tiger Stadium: A Love Letter to Baseball at Michigan & Trumbull

This book is a fans love letter to baseball played at the Corner of Michigan and Trumbull in downtown Detroit first at wooden Bennett Park (1896-1911) and then at its steel and concrete replacement known by three names: Navin Field (1912-1937) Briggs Stadium (1938-1960) and finally Tiger Stadium (1961-1999). The Cathedral at The Corner was where-together with our great-grandparents grandparents parents uncles aunts siblings children godchildren and friends-we have cheered our Detroit Tigers. Although the structure is gone the memories remain. This book is a tribute to the characters on the field in the stands and those in the neighborhoods surrounding the ballpark as well as to the broadcasters who brought the action to us when we couldnt be there. It is from those characters and those who knew them loved them or both from which many of the books stories come from. Baseball is a game of statistics their inclusion critical to the history told but its the back stories that give the book its humanity humor and liveliness.