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DETROIT TIGER STADIUM DEMOLITION BEGINS, CORRUPTION AND LIES - WINNING
Jul 2, 2008 | 9:41 PM
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JUNE 30, 2008 - DEMOLITION OF TIGER STADIUM BEGINS, THE GREEN TO THE RIGHT IS ORIGINAL STADIUM SECTION  photo by: David L. Malhalab 

    The demolition of historic Detroit Tiger Stadium has begun. The construction crews, in a perfectly timed effort, punched an 8' hole into the center-left field outer wall, as City government was virtually incumunicado, the swirl of corruption stories, and the school board vote on their deficiet would make the beginning of demolition a small footnote in and on the news, and so it began.  

   The dark forces of corruption that have marked the 'demolition by neglect' of Tiger Stadium are winning. Since 1999, when Tiger Stadium was closed, the City has made no serious effort to encourage development or use of the Stadium as and entertainment venue - because Mike Ilitch, owner of the Tigers, Red Wings and Little Ceasar's Pizza didn' want competition for his entertainment facilities.

    Ilitch the billionaire and his wife, who owns Motor City Casino a baseball throw away, a short stroll to the 'field of dreams' should have developed the Stadium as another premiere entertainment facility -develop it as an historic site, that would draw tourists to Detroit, but NO - Ilitch took $420,000 a year ($2-$12 million dollars) for the maintenance and security of Tiger Stadium since 1999 and allowed it to fall into disrepair and neglect. Is Ilitch a FELON??. The FBI has been asked to investigate. You should boycott - Little Ceasar's Pizza.

    Ken Cockrel, Jr, president of the Detroit City Council said, "your boy (Peter C. Riley) was right. He (Ilitch) owes us the money, and I will do everything to get it back"... that was over a year ago. Before the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation members - LIED - to the Detroit Planning Commission in a presentation of their case for demolition.

   The Commission knew they were being lied to - and rejected the Corporation proposal - for demolition. That was before Scott of the DEGC - LIED - to the Corktown Residents Council, telling them that it was 'too dangerous' for their members to tour Tiger Stadium, for a fact finding effort.

   There have been numerous proposals to utilize, renovate and preserve Tiger Stadium, but the City never fully cooperated with the proponents - allowing Tiger Stadium to sit idle and decay.

    The final chapter in the history of Tiger Stadium maybe demolition, but it may also include information on 'convictions' of Ilitch, George Jackson and others who allowed a City jewel to be demolished and left only as a memory of what was, what might and could have been.

     Maybe their will be Justice - for historic Tiger Stadium, but I still want the Stadium.       

      FOR MORE INFO:  Please donate to help save the Old Tiger Stadium   CLICK...

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former_detroiter read my blog view my photos
Jul 3, 2008 | 3:06 PM

I hate the atmosphere at Comerica Park and will never attend anything there. I went once and was totally disgusted with the "moderness" and carnival vibes of it all. Back in the day I was a bleacher creature. Life was simple then for us rowdy creatures. Steamed hot dogs with tons of mustard, a few beers, breezes flowing in off of the river and honest to goodness baseball and baseball players. We didn`t need fireworks, fountains in the outfield, ferris wheels and whatever else they offer now. Only a few players had major endorsements. Corporate America hadn`t invaded our turf yet. The City had quite a jewel in old Tiger Stadium. It`s a shame it`s also off to the pawn shop with some of our other jewels. Maybe it has something to do with the youthful City admin or the Illitch`s attempt at retaining their youthfullness. It`s only as you mature and get the wisdom age offers that you begin to fully appreciate and cherish the values of the past.
jax276 read my blog
Jul 3, 2008 | 7:23 PM

I was my mother's youngest child and she, God rest her soul, was a baseball fanatic. My father and brothers were too busy most of the time so my mother and I would go to games at Tiger Stadium on many a sunny afternoon. She taught me to keep score of games like a pro when I wasn't old enough to cross a street without my hand being held. I remember many a Thanksgiving Day game freezing my feet off watching the Lions and Green Bay play wondering how those guys could run around without jackets playing football in the snow.

With each sleazy deal and each brick that falls, those precious memories seem farther and farther away. My parents are both long gone now and soon so will the place filled with some of my fondest of childhood memories. I can even remember my father blowing his stack when they changed the name from Briggs Stadium as he felt it was too modern. I am not the only one that grew up at Tiger Stadium and could sit for hours recalling the days of childhood there.

The loss of the stadium in a way seems fitting with all that's going wrong in this city right now, but Kilpatrick will leave and the city council will also. There will come a day when Detroit will stand again as a leader but once the old stadium is gone it's finished. You can't put a price on memories so I hope Ilitch and Kilpatrick and all the other low life's that sold a beautiful piece of Detroit's history and all our memories for 30 pieces of silver someday somehow choke on what they've done.
DAVID7750 read my blog view my photos
Jul 3, 2008 | 9:24 PM

jax276 -
Keep writing down your memories here...
the space is free - share with everyone..
and everyone else - share your memories here.

Don't let the memories die - be forgotten
put them down in black and white - so all can
remember and reminisce.

Let the history of historic Detroit Tiger Stadium be written here for everyone - young and old.
Thank you for the memories...David
car7858 read my blog view my photos
Jul 4, 2008 | 8:33 AM

David-I have one for you too; I was working for an automotive silk screen company named Carter Screen in Livonia. My boss Doyle had season tickets to Tiger Stadium & he went once a year for the annual season ticket holder batting practice on the field. We had a drawing to see who would go with him from the company & I won! Doyle took 10 swings & I* took 5-I hit two soft grounders towards short. I will always remember being on that field where so many greats like Ty Cobb, Al Kaline, Mickey Lolich, Kirk Gibson and so many others played. It was indeed a priceless feeling to see the old scoreboard with KC on it and the old football on it from when the Lions used to play there.
Frankawitz read my blog view my photos
Jul 4, 2008 | 9:38 AM

But just like Olympia Stadium they will sell off every brick just like the Old Red Barn, I look at it's loss as another notch in the Mayor long list of Historical Buildings he has Destoried, there was a article in National Trust Magazine how the Mayor has toren down at the time 76 Historical Building in his first term, So this Great Stadium will fall like so many places that made Detroit a Great City. Just like the Train Station. If Kwame doesn't get something in return it will be destoried.
Longshot read my blog view my photos
Jul 5, 2008 | 4:13 AM

DAVID7750

Why don't you stop being Jealous of Mike Ilitch.

How many blogs and posts on this man so far?

Mike Ilitch has built up Detroit and brought more people back into this city more than any man in Detroit, outside of Roger Penske & G.M.

He kept his teams in Detroit, in arena's in Detroit. When Pistons and Lions Owners went elsewhere. The constant rant on Ilitch shows how pathetic you are. Bet as a cop you did everything in your power to provoke people into becoming violent, so you could show yourself the big bad cop.

A little insecure don't you think?

Face it, your a loser that couldn't fit one toe into Ilitch's shoes.
DAVID7750 read my blog view my photos
Jul 5, 2008 | 10:46 PM

'THE LADY IN BLUE' SPEAKS - LISTEN - COMMENT

ORIGINAL POST ON: DETROITYES.COM


Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2008
Posted on Saturday, July 05, 2008 - 12:04 am:

Today, there is a real crime being perpetrated at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull, and it is urgent that as many people as possible learn that things are NOT necessarily as the city of Detroit would have them believe. Within and adjacent to city government, it is equally important that certain individuals realize that the public as a whole is not — nor has been — in the least fooled by the political posturing and inept attempts at stadium preservation that have characterized the last few years of the drama surrounding the old ball park. The implied malice of punching an eight-foot hole in an outer wall rather than using a ten-foot gate adjacent to the hole has provided an eloquent underscore for the lies and half-truths that that city officials have foisted on the public for the last nine years.

In truth, the destruction of Tiger Stadium has very little to do with a ball park. It is the final denouement of a story of greed, selfishness, and, on the part of the city of Detroit, blind stupidity. Some weeks ago (before demolition began), I challenged the Detroit City Council to look hard at the stadium issue — not from the standpoint of sentiment, or even educated respect for history, but from the perspective of fiscal responsibility and intelligent city operation. For Council to do this, it would first have had to admit that no fair chance ever was offered to the individuals and corpor
DAVID7750 read my blog view my photos
Jul 5, 2008 | 10:52 PM

'THE LADY IN BLUE'
continued..original post: DETROITYES.COM read

corporations that, for the last nine years, sought a more sensible resolution to the stadium issue, and that, in fact, the city was (and continues to be) aggressive in preventing such proposals from being fully developed.

Council obviously did not rise to the challenge. However, I have appended my letter to them below. I call reader attention in particular to the bullet lists of multi-million dollars of lost opportunity. My hope is that at least one person attending this forum may find something in that letter to cause him or her to say, for whatever reason, "Oh my God! What have we done? What have we let happen?" and thus the loss of one structure may at least help to provide insurance for other landmarks in similar straits.
ReverendCirca53 read my blog view my photos
Jul 7, 2008 | 2:34 PM

"Little Harry's" was demolished and there was an injunction. Ford Auditorium will be next. And yet the Train Station just sits moldering. Where is MLB?....National Trust for Historic Preservation?....Preservation Wayne?....Where's the Briggs and the Storers??..
jjpercha
Jul 7, 2008 | 6:11 PM

I remember catching an Al Kaline HR in 1974 and my Uncle ran a consession stand there and I gave him the Ball and he walked me over to the Tigers Locker Room and I got Al Kaline and all the Tigers to sign it. I still have it and will pass it down to my son when he turns 10, the same age as I when I caught the ball.

Who cant forget also Mark "The Bird" Fydrich
jerryb4187 read my blog
Jul 7, 2008 | 9:45 PM

i say burn it down and all of detroit while there at it . its nothing but a mess from the mayor to the council to the crack houses.
Kevin-McKague
Jul 7, 2008 | 9:51 PM

I have a lot of great memories from Tiger Stadium from my first game as a kid in '75, seeing the Tigers win the AL playoffs in '84, to taking my 2 1/2 year-old daughter to a game, sitting behind home plate with her for the last home game of '98. The guys sitting near us joked that my daughter wouldn't make it 3 innings before getting fussy, but she smiled and cheered the whole nine innings. I'll remember that day until I die.

I'm a truck driver, and was heading home when I heard about the imminent demolition of the stadium, so I found a place to park my rig nearby, and took some pictures before they put the fence up blocking the final sight-weers.

My pictures are here: http://www.bloggingformichigan.com/showDiary.do?diaryId
=2278
obbie read my blog
Jul 8, 2008 | 6:58 AM

Sometimes memories have to be in photos. Soon it will be another eye sore like the old glorious train station. Let it go.
SCUNNER11
Jul 9, 2008 | 9:34 AM

I will miss Tiger Stadium and the memories. Watching Tramm & Lou turning two,the Bird, and who can forget Herbie dancing with his broom. Kwame and the rest of his bums have no clue about sports and tradition, they could care less. COPA could not hold Tiger Stadium's jock and has no atmosphere to it, BORING. Anyway RIP old friend, we will always love you.
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