Whether by car, bus, limousine or ride in any luxury sedan in suburban Detroit, Comerica Park was a major attraction this summer largely because of Tiger success of the 2006 season and is currently a record over .500 for the season year.
The park is famous almost 10 years and another in the line of retreat was picturesque stadiums Metropole is situated in the heart of a big city.
And, of course, TigerQuestion of the park is surrounded by brick stone head of a tiger, all with a baseball lodged between the teeth. Giant Tiger eyes the threat of seeing the two main doors in both the line right. Comerica Park has tile in place is likely that no one noticed much - the area between the two sides of the backdrop of wooded horse.
The wall is immortalized Tigers Wall of Fame, the names of six TigersWall in the center-left. In the previous edition, there are six 13-foot sculpture of the great former Tiger Al Kaline Hal Newhouser, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Ty Cobb and Willie Horton. also Cobb, who gave the figures above, the other five to retire at the point of playing statues brick directly recorded.
The last name of Tiger legends are born before the line numbers in midfield consecutive victories adorn brick. A notable exception is the name of Harwell,famous chain of Tiger who retired after the 2002 season after 55 years in the cockpit.
Comerica Park has many other functions that are not all of them, however, are original. The first thing you notice when you look in the direction of the field is great on the dashboard to the left. At 147 meters wide by 202 meters, is the largest baseball. The idea came from Cleveland, Jacobs Field Jumbotron, the most important, has been copied in Detroit on loan Function and did a bit 'bigger.
Perched on the dashboard both sides are a pair of orange and black tigers, whose eyes flash Green when Tiger hits a home run and a classic song tiger Survivor "Eye of the".
The park is also evidence from other architectures Jacobs Field, with the towers of light, such as toothbrushes. As the lights of Tiger Stadium distinctiveness of banks still in most places in Detroit, Comerica was> Park is visible from nearby. The field will be dug below the street level, so that the baseball stadium does not seem very important that you approach from the outside.
Just above the bottom of this gentleman in center field is the source of General Motors, which is inactive for the game, when a tiger Homer. It 'used before and after games when ejaculates streams, which are choreographed to music.
The well is also the center of fireworksoccurs after every home game Friday night the Tigers. jet of water 150 meters high, then the changing light and music programming. If you sit upstairs, you can easily see the head of General Motors right behind the fountain, which is a sponsor.
More reliable data on the Comerica Park:
Physical Address: 2100 Woodward Avenue
Cost: $ 300 million (HOK Sport)
Construction began on October 291997
Public funding of 38.3% (115 million dollars), is the cost of the stadium. Tigers owner Mike Ilitch legs remaining 61.7% ($ 185,000,000)
Naming Rights: Comerica Bank will pay $ 2,200,000 per year by 2030
A dirt road leads from pitcher mound Home Plate, where it is cut the dough into areas such as "Home Plate"
As a tribute to Tiger Stadium, the tree between the center and left field is the first in the game that changed afterthe 2002 season, when the left field wall was moved
initial capacity was 40,000 seats. In 2005, outside the right field bullpen and 950 seats have been moved to
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