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A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium
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A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium Hardcover - 1998

by Richard Bak


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On April 28, 1896, baseball fans traveled in horse-drawn buggies to watch the Detroit Tigers play their first baseball game at the site on the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues. Starting out as Bennett Park, a wooden facility with trees growing in the outfield, Tiger Stadium has played a central role in the lives of millions of Detroiters and their families for more than a century.

During the last century, millions of fans have come to Michigan and Trumbull to watch the Tigers' 7,800 home games, as well as to attend numerous other sporting, social, and civic events, including high school, collegiate, and professional football games, prep and Negro league baseball contests, political rallies, concerts, and boxing and soccer matches.

A companion to the narrative history, almost two hundred rare photographs capture the spirit of 140 years of baseball in Detroit. A Place for Summer furnishes a sense of the relationship between the community, its teams, and the various fields, parks, and stadiums that have served as common ground for generations of Detroiters.

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  • Title A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium
  • Author Richard Bak
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Great Lakes Books Series, Detroit, MI
  • Date 1998-06-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780814325124 / 0814325122
  • Weight 2.1 lbs (0.95 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.37 x 1.27 in (23.67 x 16.18 x 3.23 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Great Lakes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Michigan
    • Locality: Detroit, Michigan
  • Library of Congress subjects Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) - History, Tiger Stadium (Detroit, Mich.) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-2509
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

About the author

Richard Bak is a freelance writer and is the author of Turkey Sternes and the Detroit Stars (1994) and Cobb Would Have Caught It (1991), both published by Wayne State University Press.
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