I came across this beautiful picture of a night game at Tiger Stadium today, and I nearly cried. Why was it so important for the Tigers to move out of this gem of a stadium? Tiger Stadium was a classic like Fenway Park and Wrigley Field, except it was built with its own style. The second deck built right on top of the lower seats made all the fans feel like they were right on top of the field. You don’t get that with the giant bowl stadiums of today, no matter how “retro” they make them look. If you’re sitting in the upper deck, you might as well be watching the game from an airplane at 40,000 feet over the stadium. Not so with Tiger Stadium. You could have cheap seats in the upper deck and you could still shout insults at Bob Gibson on the mound, and if it was a quiet moment in the game he’d actually hear you!

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