Tiger Stadium: What Makes a Ballpark

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 […]

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 […]