What I remember most about Tiger Stadium was its aura. If you had never been inside, it looked like an old, beat up stadium in the middle of a less-than-desirable area of Detroit. Unlike most modern stadiums, the entire field was enclosed, and all you could see as you approached it was the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Steve B.’s Favorite Tiger Stadium Memories
Posted in Random, tagged baseball, baseball stadium road trips, brant brown, cecil fielder, oakland athletics, tiger stadium on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff’s Favorite Tiger Stadium Memories
Posted in Random, new york leg, tagged baseball, baseball stadiums, bill gullickson, devon white, jim thome, joe carter, ray durham, road trips, sports, tiger stadium on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In honor (or maybe in memoriam) of the recently begun demolition of one of our favorite baseball stadiums, the four of us will be sharing our favorite Tiger Stadium memories as we get closer to our trip to one of baseball’s last remaining historic vestiges.
Over the next few days, I will post them [...]
Hallowed Ground
Posted in new york leg, tagged babe ruth, baseball, baseball road trips, baseball stadiums, john philip sousa, josh gibson, sports, yankee stadium on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few facts I learned while watching the Home Run Derby last night on ESPN:
- Babe Ruth hit a homerun in the very first game played at Yankee Stadium.
- John Philip Sousa, the same guy who penned “Stars and Stripes Forever”, led the band on the field in a march prior to the [...]
Charting a course.
Posted in Random, tagged baseball, baseball stadiums, henry hudson, msn live search, road trips, sports on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now, not only can you read about the ultimate baseball road trip, but you can follow along on a map.
We’ve plotted our past destinations using MSN Live Maps so you can get a visual of where we’ve been. Trust me – it will look a lot cooler when we’ve been to every stadium, so [...]
Two months to go.
Posted in new york leg, tagged atlanta braves, baseball, baseball stadiums, new york city, new york mets, new york yankees, road trips, sports, tampa bay rays, yankee stadium on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two months from today we’ll be on an airplane headed to New York to see the first game of our New York doubleheader, the New York Mets versus the Atlanta Braves. The next day, we’ll head to Yankee Stadium to see a game with possible playoff implications: the New York Yankees versus the [...]
The fleecing of Yankee Stadium.
Posted in new york leg, tagged baseball, baseball stadiums, new york, road trips, sports, tiger stadium, yankee stadium on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The latest “Life of Reilly” column on ESPN.com poses an interesting question to those fans making their last (or in our case, first) sojourn to the venerable grounds of Yankee Stadium:
What kind of momento are you taking home from the stadium?
We see what the players will take, but they, unlike us, have access to the [...]
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