Category Archives: Detroit Tigers

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 no [...]

Remembering Detroit Tiger Legend Ty Cobb … again

“He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.” — Jimmy Cannon “Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles [...]

2007 Detroit Tiger All Stars

Maggs Sportin’ the Shades by MichSt Today’s Detroit News reports that the Tigers have five players on the American League All-Star team: starters Magglio Ordonez, Pudge Rodriguez and Placido Polanco and reserves Justin Verlander and Carlos Guillen. Jeremy Bonderman could make it six in online voting for the final spot, a feat not matched since [...]