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A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium by Richard Bak,

On April 28, 1896, baseball fans traveled in horse-drawn buggies to watch the Detroit Tigers play their first baseball game at the site on the corner of Michigan detroit michigan news and Trumbull Avenues. Starting out as Bennett Park, a wooden facility with trees growing in the outfield, Tiger Stadium has played a central role in the lives of millions of Detroiters detroit michigan news and their families for more than a century. Bennett Park was torn down detroit michigan news and replaced by a concrete detroit michigan news and steel structure named Navin Field in 1912, was expanded detroit michigan news and renamed Briggs Stadium in 1938, detroit michigan news and finally was given the name Tiger Stadium in 1961. Richard Bak traces the importance of the corner of Michigan detroit michigan news and Trumbull in the history of Detroit detroit michigan news and its people. During the last century, millions of fans have come to Michigan detroit michigan news and Trumbull to watch the Tigers' 7,800 home games, as well as to attend numerous Other sporting, social, detroit michigan news and civic events, including high school, collegiate, detroit michigan news and professional football games, prep detroit michigan news and Negro league baseball contests, political rallies, concerts, detroit michigan news and boxing detroit michigan news and soccer matches. A Place for Summer covers baseball in Detroit from its beginnings in the 1850s through the Tigers' 1997 season, detroit michigan news and offers a history of Detroit's playing grounds before Bennett Park, including the Woodward Avenue cricket grounds, the original Detroit Athletic Club, Recreation detroit michigan news and Boulevard parks, detroit michigan news and the many places where the Tigers played bootleg games on Sundays at the turn of the century. Bak presents attendance records from the Tigers' Western League days onward detroit michigan news and a complete account of every opening day since 1896. A chapter is dedicated to the football Panthers of the 1920s detroit michigan news and their more enduring successor, the Lions, who playedat Michigan detroit michigan news and Trumbull through 1974.
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