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.
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.
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 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. :-)
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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. 😄
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
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!
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 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
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 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
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 ua-cam.com/video/_43P2HSgW4I/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/xUuGPZ7p9i4/v-deo.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.
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.
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.
During 1999 M.L.B. season, 25 seasons back. It was Tigers' swan song season, baseball ⚾️ play in that ancient ballpark. Season later (Yr. 2000) club would transplant to their present ballpark in Det., Mich. New cross-town Comerica Ballpark. And speaking, Det., Mich., considering fact that city's located at Canada 🇨🇦/U.S. 🇺🇸 boundary line, why do you suppose that at Tiger 🐅 home games there that Canada's National Anthem, "O Canada" isn't performed just prior to U.S.'s anthem, "Star-Spangled Banner", even when Tigers square off against another U.S.-based team?
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.
I basically grew up here. My mom worked in the front office for 33 years. I miss the hell out of this place.
Same here.
They should've renovated it😫
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. ❤
How? And why? Do you see it’s design? They would have needed to completely redo it.
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.
its a shame it's no longer there. I would have loved to see in again.
I wish
I couldn't agree more with you!¡!!
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.
very well said.. if they could renovate Wrigley and Fenway, they could've done the same with Tigers Stadium.
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.
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 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. :-)
Excellent !!!!
Same here, the first and last game I attended at Tiger Stadium was July 10, 1999. I remember Jeromy Burnitz going deep for the Brewers.
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 worked here for 11yrs, 79 to 90. Great memories
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.
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I always thought Tiger Stadium was very interesting. It's a shame it was demolished.
Tiger stadium was a super great homerun baseball ⚾️ stadium
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.
Daft Punk was influenced by all the early House and Techno from Chicago and Detroit so it makes sense they would play them there
Great stuff! I've been looking for this kind of footage of The Old Ball Park. Thanks for posting!
What an atmosphere for baseball. Love the sound of the bat echoing.
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 praise the younger man giving the tour. He is really insightful and very forthcoming!
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.
Home! Baseball In Tiger Stadium Priceless!
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.
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. 😄
would have loved to have seen a ballgame here! probably my Favorite of the classic baseball stadiums.
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
It was great if you love history. You could feel the past like it was a field of dreams. But if you were a casual it sucked
Tiger Stadium was a great place to watch a ballgame. The closeness to the field was awesome.
CROSLEY, Old Yankees, Jack Murphy, Forbes, Comisky and old Tiger. Legend stadiums.
🐅 tiger stadium had super great roof base homeruns
Immaculate stadium. Beautiful.
This video is everything I ever wanted
Holy smokes no upper deck these days will ever have such a great view
I never got to see this stadium but as I get older I wonder what it would’ve been like to visit some of the great baseball stadiums like this!
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!
I wish I was there I never been in that Stadium I wish I made a time machine and go see it.
Went to games there many times from Windsor. What memories. Too bad it had to go.
Does it make sense that watching this makes me kinda sad??? I remember going with my grandpa to Tiger Stadium. Lost grandpa in December 2007.
makes all the sense in the world
Not at all! This place was Disney world for me growing up!
Awesome archive, thanks
Thanks so much for sharing this. Great to see the park again.
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
What a great video! :)
Wonderful video! But it definitely makes me sad this beauty doesn’t exist anymore! Spent many childhood days watching games at the Stadium!
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
Oh God, I remember that hot dog sign! I completely forgot about it!
Ah look at the old girl the tigers arent the same since they left Michigan and trumble
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 miss when each team had their own unique identity. Now days 90% of the stadiums look the same
Man those Kmart advertisements.
I was 2 months old when this video was shot. Wish I couldve experienced this stadium at some point.
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.
Yes we need a live organ at Comerica Park!!! Why won’t they put one in?? Wrigley is awesome with it!!! Love the organ music!!
I think he meant to imply that the Titanic dominated the news so much that week that no one paid attention to the openings of the two
@@johnr033 Wrigley's organ has such a deep, rich sound to it. Tv doesn't do it justice.
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.
Amazing.
The greatest stadium of them all.... 😞
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 😱
The rumor is that the ghost of Bobby Higginson still haunts those hallowed grounds
Ooooof
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.
Yep,work there in Summer of 1998-1999 😅Go,Tiger's ⚾️
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.
Legendary
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 kind of love it
Tigers had a gem. It was right up there with fenway and Wrigley. Cool video but it's a bit sad
Tell ya one thing...wind up sitting behind one of those columns during a game, you would be screwed. lol
God yes! I remember!!
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...
Detroit is a shithole dude it doesn't compare to Boston or Chicago
Greedy owner and shady city politicians.
Wrigley and Fenway won't last forever. tiger stadium had a lot of bad seats. attendance was bad.
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.
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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.
Comerica has slways been chintzy.Absolutely no character
PS, great footage!!!
Video quality looks damn good for 99. I didn't think digital video was available to the public then or am i mistaken?
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.
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.
According to a renovation proposal called the Cochrane Plan, it would have cost half the price of a new park.
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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.
During 1999 M.L.B. season, 25 seasons back. It was Tigers' swan song season, baseball ⚾️ play in that ancient ballpark. Season later (Yr. 2000) club would transplant to their present ballpark in Det., Mich. New cross-town Comerica Ballpark. And speaking, Det., Mich., considering fact that city's located at Canada 🇨🇦/U.S. 🇺🇸 boundary line, why do you suppose that at Tiger 🐅 home games there that Canada's National Anthem, "O Canada" isn't performed just prior to U.S.'s anthem, "Star-Spangled Banner", even when Tigers square off against another U.S.-based team?
Great vid…way better than comerica
The dimensions were so wrong, there's no way is was 340ft in LF and 440ft in center, it was more like 310ft in Left and 380ft in center.
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.
Really is the best tour guide EVER! I wonder what he's up to now.
CF. 440ft, today's player $500 million to hit 385ft, 410ft ?? Still avg only .220avg, and 25 HR ?? Should have kept, as a museum
Some people don’t know how to shut their yaps on a tour.
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Just had to tear it down, lots of corruption. Such a waste of a classic.
I love this video.
Babe Ruth's furthest home run ever was hit at that home plate.
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I spent a fair of my young life there. I wish I'd never met my ex wife otherwise I would of made it back in 99.
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.
Couldn't agree more esp since mlb talks about their history, etc. Tiger Stadium and comiskey should have been saved. Its all about the $$$
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…
Comerica is garbage. Cost is around $300.00 for 2 or 3 people. It's corporate garbage.
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 purposely let it go to hell so they could get funding for the new park.
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.
I’ve been to 23 MLB parks and it’s the WORST new build for sure. Only thing worse is Tampa and Toronto.
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.
@john Cleveland is generic but I think Toronto is pretty cool.
Reminds me of what a dump this ballpark was. Love the ball field there today, Corktown and Comerica Park!
You apparently didn't grow up here...GO WINGS 🇺🇲
What a foolish decision to close this and build that bland new stadium. Could be cashing on this historic place like fenway and Wrigley
The dumbest thing the Fetzer regime did was put in those ugly blue and orange seats and trim the stadium in blue.
The blue trim was great, maybe not the orange seats, but the old green trim was ugly
I remember being a kid and watching a giant crackhouse burn to the ground from the nosebleeds