For a two unfortunate years, I was a resident of the greater Houston metroplex. In fact, it’ll be 10 years this December that I moved there (and it was seven years ago this week that I escaped).
My stay in Houston coincided with the April 2000 opening of a new baseball stadium, then Enron Field, site [...]

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Did they burn cars in ‘68 too, or is Bobby mixing his championship metaphors?

First, the news:
The Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy and the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation have reached agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding that will ultimately transfer title to the stadium to the Conservancy and grant a long-term lease of the playing field. We want our supporters to know that we are encouraged by this development and [...]

What’s left of Tiger Stadium may soon become a pile of rubble just as the other 75 percent of the ballpark did this past summer. According to a Free Press story:
The Detroit City Council’s planning and economic development committee decided today that a preservation group must pay $219,000 to the city by Tuesday morning.

If that [...]

The wrecking ball at Michigan and Trumbull has caused Tigers fans across the nation to freak out. Or, to be precise, to express a desire to find a pair of Tiger Stadium seats.
How do I know this? Because of a stream of comments, pleas and offers for seats on a post I wrote last October.
If [...]

At last some good (possible) news for those who want to save part of Tiger Stadium.
According to a news release on Michigan Senator Carl Levin’s Senate Web site:
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Carl Levin (D-MI) today announced the inclusion of $13,500,000 for Michigan transportation and community outreach projects in the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and [...]

While Friend of the Fungo Gary Gillette and the non-profit Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy work feverishly to raise funds to avoid, ahem, razing the ballpark, the City of Detroit’s demolition wheels are in motion.
At the very least, a demolition team is likely to start razing about 75% of the ballpark in May or June, as [...]