Updated post from Kevin’s blog, MyMediaDiary from April 2013. I’ve often wondered about the emotional hitching post that is a ballpark. And when anyone says “ballpark” we all know that it’s not referring to any other sports field besides baseball’s. I only live a few miles from five little league fields that I spent five summers of […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
New Podcast: GM’s “Google Years” of the 1950s and 1960s with Ken Pickering
Ken Pickering, GM’s retired Executive Director, Engineering and Design Services, joins Digging Detroit’s Kevin Walsh and Pete Kalinski to discuss his career in the exciting years of design in the 1950s and beyond. Moving from western Pennsylvania to WWII to GM Hard work combined with some great breaks Harley Earl & Bill Mitchell How long a car […]
Why I Love Baseball – Remembering May 26th, 1995 at Tiger Stadium
Lee Patrick Sullivan is a Detroit native, and journalist living in Washington, DC. He has worked for CBS News, the BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg-TV and CNN. Despite his career taking him to London, New York and Washington, DC he has never wavered from his loyalty to his beloved Detroit Tigers. My love of the Detroit Tigers […]
Episode 6: The Navin Field Grounds Crew
Professional baseball was played at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull for nearly a century. The Detroit Tigers played their final game in 1999 and it took 10 years for the city to complete its demolition. In just 5 years, the weeds and trash had grown so thick that few signs remained of the once manicured lawn […]