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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

Jul 6, 2022

Late that rainy night, in a cluttered room on a high floor of Detroit's Pontchartrain hotel, they kept tapping on the door, soft, female knuckles knocking on hard wood. The young women said they only wanted the autograph of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, the sensational rookie right-handed pitcher of the Detroit Tigers...

The Year of the Bird

Thirty-five years ago, in a race-based tempest, the Pistons’ ‘Bad Boys’ trash-talked the Boston Celtics’ star

When the Bird got the Worm

By Joe Lapointe
May 25, 2022
After delays, new metro Detroit pro hockey team Motor City Rockers ready to play in Macomb County

The team was originally announced in 2020, but the pandemic postponed its launch

By Lee DeVito
Apr 29, 2022
When rookie Jackie Robinson came to Detroit in 1947

A small story about a great man at the peak of his fame

By Gary Gillette
Apr 15, 2022
Detroit’s Fowling Warehouse to open Ypsilanti location

It’s like bowling, but with a football

By Lee DeVito
Apr 8, 2022
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

By Steve Neavling
Apr 5, 2022
NFL announces Detroit will host 2024 NFL Draft

It's “a huge win for Detroiters," Gov. Whitmer says

By Steve Neavling
Mar 28, 2022
25 years ago, a Joe Louis bloodbath helped propel the Detroit Red Wings into a glorious era

Darren McCarty’s gory vengeance on Claude Lemieux is core hockey lore

By Joe Lapointe
Mar 23, 2022
Detroit Tigers’ Negro Leagues Weekend is a ‘major’ celebration

By Vanessa Ivy Rose
Jul 15, 2021
Newly fired Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia might have a burner Twitter account where he defends himself, calls Kaley Cuoco 'hot'

By Jerilyn Jordan
Dec 2, 2020
New Detroit Lions ownership would 'completely support' signing Kaepernick, though it's unlikely

By Jerilyn Jordan
Jun 24, 2020
Detroit City FC announces title partnership with Stroh's in 2019

By Sonia Khaleel
May 13, 2019
Detroit Tigers announce opening day lineup with nostalgic Nintendo spoof

By Lee DeVito
Mar 28, 2019
New downtown arena still can't help Detroit Pistons increase attendance

By Jessica D'Alfonso
Jan 24, 2019
LeBron James has stolen a dream from Detroit again, lawsuit says

By Anthony Spak
Apr 18, 2018
Detroit March for Our Lives demonstration attracts thousands to downtown protest

By Anthony Spak
Mar 24, 2018
Detroit Tigers announce Bark at the Park dates for 2018 season

By Anthony Spak
Mar 19, 2018
Comerica Park to host yoga class this summer

By Alysa Zavala-Offman
Jun 13, 2017
Where to party in Detroit for Opening Day

By MT Staff
Apr 5, 2017
Tigers still very much a contender in a wide-open AL Central Division

By Alex Muller
Apr 5, 2017
Three reasons why the Detroit Tigers will make the playoffs

By Don Drysdale
Apr 5, 2017

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