February 09, 2005
Tigers to indie team: Stay offa our lawn
Never let it be said that the Detroit Tigers didn't learn anything from ten years of battling the Tiger Stadium Fan Club over their new-stadium plans: An article in Crain's Detroit Business (paid subscribers only) reveals that the Tigers lobbied members of the city council in nearby Troy to block approval of an independent-league baseball stadium there. The team also paid for an automated phone message from councilmember Jeanne Stine to Troy residents, urging them to tell their representatives to oppose the plan. Does anyone still wonder why proposals to put a minor-league team in vacant Tiger Stadium have gone nowhere?
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It's sad. From what I hear the $400k that is spent to maintain the stadium hasn't been used to maintain it in functioning order for at least 3 years now. That's gotta lead to a pretty sad shape. And they had huge dumpsters outside the place late last fall, cleaning out fixtures that used to be in storage.
And they've removed the Stadium's plaque, and the Ty Cobb plaque, as well.
Posted by: Eric Blade at June 6, 2005 03:33 AM
Posted by: Eric Blade at June 6, 2005 03:33 AM
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