I strongly agree!! One of the very best stadiums ever in MLB. Doing what they did for Wrigley to Old Tiger stadium would have been golden and it would have saved thos legend! I never saw a game in person at this stadium, but watched plenty of Tiger baseball from TV all the way from California as a boy. ❤
For some reason Fenway and Wrigley were viewed differently than Tiger Stadium and Comiskey. Likely the money that the patrons could spend to attend games in a stadium that isn't up to current standards. Boston and North Chicago compared to Detroit and South Chicago. A large reno could've been done.....might have been more of a possibility if the stadium was in a better area.
Shame it couldn’t be loved like fenway and wrigley. These owners messed up big time. Tiger stadium would be a pilgrimage like the other two had it just be salvaged.
I can smell that place as I’m watching this. The spilled/stale beer on the ground, the bathrooms, the hot dogs, the cigarette smoke….great memories with my dad.
I last attended a game at "The Corner" 1999. It was during a homestand with the Brewers. It was great to see the place where my famly attened games since the 1950's. Our season tickes where in the box seats in the upperdack on the 3rd base side. I currently live in Phoeninx, AZ, and went back one more time. IN July of 2000 I attended one of the last "Field of Dreams" Fantasy camps and fulfilled a childhood dream, I got to suit up in an Authentic Tiger home uniform. (with my last name "Nelson" and the number 2 on the back). and played in several games over the weekend I was the catcher for most of the games, Pitched 3 innings, Played 1st and 3rd base, As well as Center field. I still have the full uniform, and the hat is framed. It was filthy, and full of Tiger Stadium grass and dirt stains. :-)
My first game with my Dad was 1966....I will never forget coming through the tunnel and seeing the magnificent Kelly green of the Tiger Stadium field and all green facade.... my hero #6....Stormin Nornan Cash, McAulliff with his foot in the bucket swing !!! Willie Horton !!!!! And the bull, #11 Bill Freehan...Thank you Dad,we sure do miss EVERYTHING.
As a 10 year old boy, I was at the game sitting in the left field upper deck on a scorcher of a day vs the A's when Cecil Fielder hit a bomb over the Stadium, his 41st. I looked up, the ball disappeared to the roof overhang right over my head, and never came back. 3rd time ever. Still have that ticket stub and I'll never forget it. I miss her... Comerica is terrible. These owners might have sold a few more fancy box seats to rich people or companies, but they destroyed their team's legacy and history in the process. People went to see the games, but also to see the uniqueness of those old ballparks. Going to see games with my Dad in the 80s, who went to the same stadium with his dad in the 50s and 60s... is really special. No other sport had such unique stadiums and dimensions of their playing surfaces. Baseball killed its stadiums and that surely harmed attendance long term. Shame.
I think the tigers are cursed because of it. Babe Ruth had roots there. Born on the same day as fenway and they're winning world series after we get a new ball park.
I strongly agree with you, its a true shame to see Old Tiger stadium go. Its a legend still, but tangible no more. Greed saw it destroyed. For shame owners. But... three cheers to the memories, just like old yankee stadium and Jack Murphy stadium and others.
fortunate to have seen a dozen or so games here with my dad as a kid. good memories. Playing daft punk during pregame in '99 before they blew up. Only in Detroit, I love it.
I had some really memorable times there! July 20, 1967 I, and a group of other Navy recruits , watched the Tigers play a night game, after which, we boarded a bus for Basic Training at Great Lakes Naval Station. A lot of guys were from Detroit, which was a cool city back then. Three days later, Detroit exploded in rioting, with 43 dead.Still makes me sad today. I also was there when the Tigers clinched the AL pennant in 1968. Oh what a night. I had the chair that I took from there for many years
This is pretty cool footage for me, because I was 6 years old when I went to a game at Tiger Stadium for the only time. It was this series against the Cardinals. I'm not certain which game, but it could have been this one. I didn't know anyone on the Tigers roster, but I was excited to see Mark Maguire! I'm pretty sure I sat in the upper deck on the 3rd base line. I remember sitting behind a support beam for part of the game. I also remember coming out of the dark concourse and seeing the green field for the first time. This video is a little over 10 years old now, but thanks for uploading it.
I drove up from Cleveland with a friend of mine in 93 , to catch a Jays Tigers game. It was a Sunday afternoon I think. We sat in foul territory in the upper deck in right field . My favorite ballpark hands down . I do like Comerica a lot but I wish they would have just renovated Tiger Stadium, or built a brand new duplicate
I played an exhibition vintage baseball game there after the Tigers had vacated. Standing at home plate and hitting a ball created a wild echo from all of the empty seats surrounding you. It's like being in the middle of a parabolic reflector with all of the seats sending the sound straight back to you.
I was at the last game that had "kids run the bases day" that year. I used my empty little caesars cup to fill it up with dirt from first base when they weren't looking. I still have it in a glass jar and you can see dried/dead grass and a few sunflower seeds. 😄
Man I miss the old ballpark. My last game there was 9/23/99 vs Cleveland. The Tigers got the win and I was able to get on the field after the game. I was too old to run the bases but I was able to get some dirt from the infield warning track as a keepsake. Unfortunately I lost the dirt during a move but those memories will last forever.
It was amazing. I’ll cherish the 4 games I got to go there. My favorite one was sitting in the right field overhang watching the heart of those killer late 90s mariners teams bat! Or seeing griffey , McGriff, and Boggs hitting them right field roof in batting practice. Just awesome! I wish we had the technology we have today back then cause I would’ve gotten so much great footage!
Thank you 4 saving this showing it to us.. I remember watching Cecil Fielder put a ball over the upper deck. I was a kid at the time. I hate new stadiums. The old ones were better
I think I heard him talking about the flagpole. He said it was an accident that they weren't supposed to get that thing or build it out onto the field. But they decided to leave it. It was a really cool feature whenever we visited because well it was 440 ft away from the plate and you hardly ever ever saw a ball hit over the center fielders head that got down there around the pool area. It was very rare to see that
I went to this stadium a number of times as a kid was always mesmerized by the size of it. The stadium now is not like going to a ball game as Tiger Stadium
I was there that weekend and that was my last game attending Tiger Stadium. It was a ridiculously hot day for only being the 1st Sunday afternoon in June. Well into the 90 degree temps and the place was packed that day. Fun game though....Saw a few homers as the ball was jumping out of there.
The tour guide is almost correct (Fenway Park and Navin Field did open on the same day, April 20, 1912, but this was when the brand new Titanic had been on the bottom of the Atlantic for five days already)! These two parks started out as single deckers with the pavilions down the foul lines detached from the main grandstands at first (well in Fenway's original configuration, the left field bleachers were just about attached to what later became grandstand seating). I have sat in about most of the same areas as shown on this tour (and then some, but not ever in the bleachers, overhanging second deck in right field or the third deck)! The bad part about having bleachers next to box and reserved seats is the smell of people in the bleachers who need to bathe more often (yep, I experienced that in left center reserved seating on a really hot day that only turned pleasant after the sun went down that during that nights game in June of 1988)! Overall, I miss this place, and what they need to do in the new park is to add quite a bit more seating while still showing the skyline of downtown through the centerfield area (where there aren't any seats with Adams Avenue being just outside the wall), and bring back the live organ to games there! At Tiger Stadium, they had one between 1966 and 1990 and had a keyboard player with his own equipment from Livonia there in 1993 and 1994, but afterward, as in this video, the same pop music that one hears in stores, restaurants, etc.
I've been a season ticket holder for nearly 40 years I was at all modern day world series 😊I was at the last home game and last game ! I ran the 99 Detroit marathon and the finish line was in the stadium,I felt like Kirk Gibson,when I finished ☺️
I was there in July 1999 for a series against Boston... Prior to the first game of that series, a storm blasted thru the area and damaged part of the stadium.. After a 45 minute delay at the start, the show went on.
One of the scariest found footage movies ever. They lull you into a false sense of security with the tour, but in the second half of the movie you have to watch the 1999 Tigers 😱
Randy smith was terrible. Some awful drafting and bad trades starting with the one they made gir Juan Gonzalez for half their team. Avila was a worse GM though. Thank god he is gone.
These new stadiums got nothing on these old gems. Like Fenway & Wrigley.......Tiger Stadium and the old Comisky in Chicago should of never been torn down. It's like destroying an old classic car and getting a Ford Taurus.
It’s a shame there’s a tour guide didn’t mention the All-Star game where Reggie Jackson hit that upper deck home run shot that hit the light tower had that light tower not been there that ball would’ve went out of that park I remember watching the game live as a kid was never a big Reggie fan but that was impressive and you can look it up
I loved this place. I went to over a 150 games here in the last 10 years of being open. My wife and I had our first date here and so many more magical moments. Being realistic though they had to have a new stadium. The grand ole lady was just to outdated and even being renovated it wouldn't have worked like many people thought. It would have cost twice as more than a new stadium and after 15 years they would have had to move on. I think what they did with the old field now is awesome, having the Detroit police athlete league park there.
So... Why was this Cathedral not preserved????? Wrigley and Fenway are still playing games... it just takes renovations like we see year to year with the other old stadiums...
There's more money for owners and politicians in building a new park. Comerica Park, which is a frying pan during day games and a terrible place to see a game, will probably be renovated or replaced sometime in the next ten years. It's been open 20 years now and by current standards it's outdated already.
@@METALBUG999 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_43P2HSgW4I.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xUuGPZ7p9i4.html Wrigley was almost completely rebuilt over the last five years. The ballpark you see now is almost completely brand new. Other than the section in CF, the bleachers were completely torn down and rebuilt, the lower deck around the diamond was demolished, all the clubhouses were expanded, and an entirely new seating structure was then rebuilt over top of that. Other than the steel girders, everything in the upper deck is brand new as well. Wrigley should be good for another 50 years before renovations would be needed again.
12:08, Daft Punk playing at Tiger Stadium. That’s as close to Heaven as it gets. I miss the old girl. The only thing I don’t miss is the urinal troughs. LOL.
Always sad to watch this. Tore it down and built a cookie cutter park that won’t be here 25 years from now. Meanwhile Fenway and Wrigley are cherished, renovated and still vibrant.
I miss these old dirty stadiums. I don’t need amenities to watch baseball or any other sports for that matter. Just need the basics. Hot dogs. Nachos. Peanuts. Beer. And a decent view.
Truly a shame when this legendary stadium was not renovated and saved. Imagine all the historic events held here, the games, the memories. Why America and ownership allowed this is sad, we should save our relics and preserve them, not tear them down to make a few bucks.
I went to a Tigers game the last summer that this stadium was used. I wished I had not gone. It was filthy, decrepit, every surface was sticky, and it smelled of vomit. The organization knew they were moving at the season’s end, so they made no effort at keeping the place up. Even the grass was dying. Very depressing. My childhood memories were of a wonderful place. Not this dump. But it had to go. The new park is state of the art. I hope to go back to Michigan to watch a Tigers game at Comerica some day. Maybe, just maybe, the new place was built with an emphasis on nostalgia, and not on cookie cutters…
You have some nerve talking about beautiful Tiger Stadium that way. It had almost 100 years of history. They should've renovated it, none of the new stadiums have any character anymore.
They could have easily renovated the park in stages lie they have done with Wrigley. Comerica Park is a cavernous frying pan with zero character. Most of the seats are too far from the field and there is ZERO shelter. They COULD have built a new park that was good like PNC or AT&T or even Nationals Park and it would have been fine, but the replacement was a fail.
Comerica is boring. It was even worse when it first opened. The bullpens in right field. The dimensions totally ridiculous. Obviously the designers knew nothing of the history and sentiment of tiger fans.
Tell me you’ve never been to PNC Park without telling me you’ve never been to PNC Park. It’s basically a copy of Comerica. Same architect even - just a year later, smaller, and with a view of bridges. To like one and not the other - you must be vision-impaired or a moron.
