Category Archives: Detroit Tigers

The Week for April 7-13, 2008

How Sweet It Is -Gladwin, Michigan by jfactor1
Our Michigan April Event Calendar says that this week is pretty much the best week to plan an event if you want to be the only game in town because we've got nothing to suggest.
If you have an event to suggest, a comment on the news, a link [...]

Play Ball! Detroit Tigers Opening Day 2008

Play Ball !!! by suesue2
The Detroit Tigers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 14-13 on their first-ever opening day on April 25, 1901 and over the 107 years of Tiger baseball since, they have compiled a 57-49-1 record in their home openers (Detroit Tigers Opening Day at Baseball Almanac).
In just 11 days (5 hours, 47 minutes, 32 [...]

Tickets for Detroit Tigers Spring Training 2008

Anyone... please sign it, photo by K'mish
Tigers Spring Training tickets go on sale this Saturday (Jan 11) at 10 AM. You can order tickets online or by calling 866-66-TIGER and get all the details on spring training from MLB.com. Check Absolute Michigan keyword Tigers for all kinds of Detroit Tiger goodness including our feature on [...]

Photo Friday: At the old ball game… by kcjacoby

On Monday morning I started looking through photos from folks I know in Detroit and started seeing all kinds of pictures from Tiger Stadium. Over this whole week, photos have been popping up from a lucky group of photographers who had the equivalent - if you're a lifelong Tigers fan like me - of a [...]

Farewell to Comerica

comerica park by jhoneyman49
I'm not sure if this photo of Comerica Park was taken last night at the last Detroit Tiger home game of 2007, but it's a gorgeous photo of a gorgeous ball park.
With the season all over except for the last 3 game series with the White Sox (and rooting for whoever plays [...]

Blogs We Dig: Roar of the Tigers

With the Tigers making a stretch run for the wild card against the New York Yankees, it seems just about essential to feature Samara Pearlstein's Roar of the Tigers as the latest Blog We Dig.
“It’s baseball. You never know what’s gonna happen in baseball…. We do everything together and we’re gonna win the game.” -Maggs, [...]

Tiger Stadium and Detroit Tigers update

While Absolute Michigan has been paying attention to efforts to save a portion of Tiger Stadium, I'd like to be absolutely clear in saying that Comerica Park is a gorgeous ballpark and I wouldn't have the Detroit Tigers playing anywhere else! If you have any doubts, the above photo Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park by [...]

Ernie Harwell's plan for Tiger Stadium

Tiger Stadium 1987 vs. Toronto Blue Jays by 1ManWithACamera
I have apparently been hanging with Rip van Winkle, and so missed the news that Ernie Harwell has come forward with an 11th hour plan to save Tiger Stadium from demolition. Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry spoke with Ernie Harwell about his plans and just hearing Ernie talk [...]

Photo Friday: Detroit Skyline by Paul Hitz

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say "Wow."
It's probably obvious from this photo that Paul loves his city. If not, a visit to the Detroit Tigers or Detroit Pistons groups he helps to manage might help, and the fact that he stepped in to oversee the complexity of exposure.Detroit should [...]

Five things you need to know for Monday, July 23, 2007

Extreme view of the auto industry
NPR had an interesting interview with Peter DeLorenzo of Autoextremist.com. Autoextremist is a site that purports to offer "the bare-knuckled, unvarnished, high-octane truth" about the challenges facing Detroit's auto industry. DeLorenzo is an auto industry consultant, and if you want octane-rich bare-knucklery with a minimum of varnish, look [...]