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The Year of the Bird
A look back at the peak season of Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrych’s legendary career
By Joe Lapointe
Tags: Detroit Sports, Sports, Detroit Tigers, Mark Fidrych, baseball, MLB, Cover Story
Fundraiser seeks to help struggling ex-Detroit Tiger who never gave up on baseball
Blessitt is among an estimated 179 former pro baseball players who weren’t on a major-league roster long enough to qualify for a pension
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Ike Blessitt, Detroit, Detroit Tigers, baseball, gofundme, fundraiser
Ex-Detroit Tiger struggles to get by after giving life to baseball
At 72, the former Detroit Tiger lives in a cramped house in desperate need of repair on the city’s east side
Tags: Detroit Sports, Detroit Tigers, Ike Blessitt, baseball, Video
Historic Negro League ballpark in Hamtramck to get new life with $2.6M in renovations
Tags: Negro Leagues, Hamtramck Stadium, Turkey Stearns, sports, baseball, Hamtramck, history, Wayne County, Warren Evans
Detroit Tigers legend and 1968 world champ Al Kaline dead at 85
By Dave Mesrey
Tags: The Scene, Al Kaline, Detroit Tigers, Ty Cobb, baseball, Video
In defense of Ty Cobb, perhaps the Detroit Tigers’ most infamous and misunderstood ballplayer
By George Hunter
Tags: Books, Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers, baseball, Detroit, racism, George Hunter, The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, Cover Story
Jack White will play a charity baseball game at Hamtramck's historic Negro League ballpark on Thursday
By Lee DeVito
Tags: City Slang, Jack White, Hamtramck, Negro League, baseball, Detroit
U-M scouted racially diverse players and is now competing in the College World Series finals
By Sonia Khaleel
Tags: News Hits, Umich, U of M, baseball, scouting, Michigan baseball, Omaha, Vanderbilt, college world series, finals
Detroit Opening Day party guide
By Metro Times editorial staff
Tags: Culture, Detroit Tigers, baseball, Opening Days, Cover Story
Why baseball is the best sport ever and anything else you've been told are lies
By Devin Culham
Tags: Culture, Detroit Tigers, baseball, Opening Day, Cover Story
How the Tigers are crafting their future identity with heroes from the past
If you rebuild it, will they come?
By Mike Dionne
Noted baseball fan Jack White donates $10k to restore Hamtramck Stadium
Tags: The Scene, baseball, Jack White, Detroit, Hamtramck, Hamtramck Stadium, Friends of Historic Hamtramck Stadium
Man takes sledgehammer to Comerica Park, shattering windows and doors
By Violet Ikonomova
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, smash, sledgehammer, comerica, baseball, shattered windows, shattered doors, boarded windows, boarded doors
Topless dude at Tigers game gives endless winter weather a brave 'fuck you'
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, shirtless man, topless man, stands, Tigers, Comerica Park, baseball
'Year of The Tiger' exhibit reflects on Detroit Tigers World Series win in 1968
By Jerilyn Jordan
Tags: The Scene, Tigers, Detroit Tigers, Baseball, Detroit baseball, World Series, Championship, 1968
Don't be a litter bug: Here's a map of all the trash receptacles downtown for Opening Day
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Detroit Tigers, Opening Day, baseball, trash
A selection of Detroit Tigers Opening Day parties
Tags: Metro Detroit, Detroit Tigers, Opening Day, Baseball, Cover Story
Justin Verlander finally won a World Series, and the Tigers could not be more proud
By Alysa Zavala-Offman
Tags: The Scene, justin verlander, world series, baseball, detroit tigers
Detroit Tigers partner with ride-sharing app, announce new perks
Tags: The Scene, Detroit Tigers, Comerica Park, Uber, ride sharing, baseball, biesbolcats
Tigers still very much a contender in a wide-open AL Central Division
By Alex Muller
Tags: Detroit Tigers, baseball, American League, Cover Story
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Pot-friendly Michigan music venue scales back programming
Black women-owned cannabis cultivator Calyxeum opens its first dispensary in Detroit
By Layla McMurtrie