Category Archives: Detroit Tigers

Detroit Tigers Opening Day 2007

Play Ball! Detroit Tigers Opening Day 2008

Opening Day at Tiger Stadium in Detroit - 1961
from Jeff Smith
The Detroit Tigers open the 2007 season and their American League pennant defense on Monday, April 2 at 1:05 PM against the Toronto Blue Jays at Comerica Park (FSN-Detroit). The Tigers have set their roster to start the [...]

Blogs We Dig: Blue Cats and Red Sox

scoring the game by Boston Fan in Michigan
Blue Cats and Red Sox is written by "a Bostonian at University of Michigan OBSESSED by baseball," but I guess how could she not be, coming from Boston. Luckily she manages to talk about other sports (and cities) as well, maybe because baseball isn't always in season? Baseball, [...]

Comerica heading for Dallas … can we get Nowitzki in return?

Comerica and Guardian by detroitsky
The Detroit News reports that Comerica Inc. announced yesterday that it will move its headquarters from Detroit to Dallas. The bank says that only 200 jobs will move, leaving about 7,300 Comerica employees in Michigan (read Comerica's full media release). The News includes a timeline that takes you from the 1849 [...]

Detroit Tigers Spring Training: Week 2

Guillen, Ordonez & Infante by hueytaxi
With about a week of Spring Training under their belt, the Tigers are starting to loosen up. Robert Green at Tigers Central offers 5 more ways to get to know your 2007 Detroit Tigers. He also talks about the "Detroit Difference" - players who all want to stay and [...]

Detroit Tiger Historical Photos!

Today on Michigan in Pictures, we have some great photos of the Tigers at Spring Training in Lakeland, Florida that no Tiger fan should miss.
We'll try and rummage around the attics of the internet and dig up some more. If you have some to share, either online or of your own, post a comment with [...]

Spring Training with the Detroit Tigers

In 2006, the Detroit Tigers came just about as close as you can to the top of the game of baseball. They start all over again in 2007 with spring training at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida. Pitchers and catchers don't report until Thursday, but you can get started today...

World Series 2006: Detroit Tigers vs St. Louis Cardinals

After an exciting 7 game NLCS series (and a week off after an ALCS sweep of the Oakland A's) the Detroit Tigers met the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2006 World Series. Check below for all kinds of information on the history of this rivalry, photos and reports from each of the games and links [...]

Detroit Tiger Manager Jim Leyland … for Governor?

Leyland Interview. by loridz
Jack Lessenberry has a column in the Metro Times that suggests with tongue only partially in cheek that a fan's sign of “Leyland for Governor” might have made more sense than most of this year's political ads.
Here’s why. The day after the pennant, there was a story in The Windsor Star (a [...]

Border Controls Strangling Windsor

storm over bridge by joojanta
MSNBC reports that the Canadian city of Windsor will get a brief but badly needed boost from across the US border this weekend as the city of Detroit and the Detroit Tigers host part of the World Series. Windsor (pop 300,000) long reaped the benefits of being within a one-hour drive [...]

Detroit Tigers Beat Oakland A's in 2006 American League Championship Series!

It worked so well for the division series between the Tigers and the Yankees that we used a single post to chronicle the ALCS between the Detroit Tigers vs. Oakland A's. Check below for all the details!