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title
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Home, Sweet Home : Memories of Tiger Stadium : From the Archives of the Detroit News
author
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publisher
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Sports Publishing, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
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1582611378
print isbn13
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9781582611372
ebook isbn13
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9780585033396
language
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English
subject
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)--History, Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)--History--Pictorial works, Tiger Stadium (Detroit, Mich.)--History, Tiger Stadium (Detroit, Mich.)--History--Pictorial works.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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GV875.D6H64 1999eb
ddc
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796.357/64/0977434
subject
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Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)--History, Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)--History--Pictorial works, Tiger Stadium (Detroit, Mich.)--History, Tiger Stadium (Detroit, Mich.)--History--Pictorial works.
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HOME SWEET HOME MEMORIES OF TIGER STADIUM
The Detroit News
MARK SILVERMAN, Publisher and Editor
JENNIFER CARROLL, Managing Editor
BOOK CREDITS
STEVE FECHT, Photo Editor
DAVID KORDALSKI. Cover and Book Design
ALANWHITT, Copy Editor
JEFF SAMORAY, Research
Copyright 1999 The Detroit News. All rights reserved. The reprinted articles and photographs were originally published in The Detroit News. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photographing, recording, taping or in information storage and retrieval systems without the written permission of the publisher.
Hardcover: ISBN 1-58261-136-x; Paperback: ISBN 1-58261-137-8
Library of Congress Number: 99-63138
Published by Sports Publishing Inc.
www. SportsPublishinglnc.com
Printed in the United States
Page 3
FOREWORD
By Al Kaline
Just about every summer since I was 18 years old I've had a home at Tiger Stadium. I was there 21 years as a player, and now through all these years as a broadcaster, it has remained a special part of my life.
It was the closeness of the fans that rememberthe way you could hear people talking in the stands, talking as I stood in the on-deck circle. They might not even be talking to you, but you could hear their conversations so clearly, as if you were sitting next to them.
The upper deck, too, was so closeprobably as close as any upper deck in baseball ever was, or ever will be. A player could sense that fans enjoyed a game a little more at Tiger Stadiumthat feeling of people sitting in stands so tight to the field that they could touch you.
I remember playing right field with that upper-deck overhang behind me. Opposing players, left-hand hitters especially, loved coming here. I knew so many players who were injured who wouldn't miss their chance at playing in Detroit. They'd get taped up, wrapped up, just like I would do whatever it took to play in Fenway Park in Boston.
I remember parking my car and walking through the stands, getting to know the concession people and saying hi to all those folks every day.
It will be emotional on that last day at Tiger Stadium. I'm preparing for it. I'm going to feel it more than I want.
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At one time it was considered unseemly to attend Sunday Baseball Games, but on August 18, 1907 the Tigers hosted the New York Highlanders at Bennett Park and a new era arrived.
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Cornerstone of memories
By George Cantor The Detroit News
There is more to a city than wrecking crews can destroy Much more than mere brick, steel and concrete.
A city is shared memory, an emotional legacy to be passed on from one generation to the next. It is the sound of birds and traffic, the angle at which the sunlight falls on an early spring afternoon, the texture of its daily life that makes one city unlike any other.
That is why this glorious hulk of a ballpark matters. Whether it was called Bennett Park or Navin Field, Briggs or Tiger Stadium, it came the closest, more than any other single edifice or institution, to defining the soul of Detroit.
Even in our most impoverished, most divided, most hopeless hours, this is where we gathered to be enriched, to unite, to hope.
It will continue to matter long after the Tigers have moved out, long after it is reduced to twisted metal and stone, long after the outfield grass withers and the bleachers collapse and Al Kaline's old locker in the corner clubhouse disappears.
Because five generations of Detroiters will see it in their minds, feel its damp in their bones, hold its memories in their heart's deepest core.
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Hall of Famer Charlie Gehringer made the most of his opportunities in 1934,
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