What ever happened to Tiger Stadium?
Feb 24, 2021 15:09:34 GMT
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Tiger Stadium bid farewell to its home team in 1999 after 88 seasons. The next chapter at Michigan and Turnbull took another decade to decide. In the end, there’s still baseball at the corner.
Though the Tigers played their final game at the ballpark on Sept. 27, 1999, there were no set plans for what to do with the site after that. Unlike ballpark transitions in many other cities, the Tigers’ new park was built nowhere near their old one, nor was Tiger Stadium being used for other pro sports. Thus, while the Tigers went down the street to Comerica Park, their old home sat largely vacant for a decade.
There were occasional events at Tiger Stadium, like a summer college league game in 2001. The Billy Crystal-directed movie 61* -- depicting the 1961 home run record chase between Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris -- was filmed there in 2000, with Tiger Stadium serving as Yankee Stadium. The park held a Super Bowl party in '06, when Ford Field hosted the big game. Otherwise, it pretty much sat in limbo, its field maintained, but its structure deteriorating. While the city of Detroit, which owned the stadium, looked for buyers to redevelop the land, preservationists looked for ways to save the stadium in some form. In some ways, the park became a microcosm of Detroit’s larger struggle between modernizing the city and preserving its rich history. Meanwhile, the neighborhood around the stadium, known as Corktown, began a renaissance as businesses and residents began to move in.
Tiger Stadium bid farewell to its home team in 1999 after 88 seasons. The next chapter at Michigan and Turnbull took another decade to decide. In the end, there’s still baseball at the corner.
Though the Tigers played their final game at the ballpark on Sept. 27, 1999, there were no set plans for what to do with the site after that. Unlike ballpark transitions in many other cities, the Tigers’ new park was built nowhere near their old one, nor was Tiger Stadium being used for other pro sports. Thus, while the Tigers went down the street to Comerica Park, their old home sat largely vacant for a decade.
There were occasional events at Tiger Stadium, like a summer college league game in 2001. The Billy Crystal-directed movie 61* -- depicting the 1961 home run record chase between Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris -- was filmed there in 2000, with Tiger Stadium serving as Yankee Stadium. The park held a Super Bowl party in '06, when Ford Field hosted the big game. Otherwise, it pretty much sat in limbo, its field maintained, but its structure deteriorating. While the city of Detroit, which owned the stadium, looked for buyers to redevelop the land, preservationists looked for ways to save the stadium in some form. In some ways, the park became a microcosm of Detroit’s larger struggle between modernizing the city and preserving its rich history. Meanwhile, the neighborhood around the stadium, known as Corktown, began a renaissance as businesses and residents began to move in.
