DETROIT (AP) -- Part of Tiger Stadium's upper deck came crashing down Monday, nearly a decade after the final major league game there and hours after a judge refused to stop the historic ballpark's demolition.
If you're covered in wrinkles, whiskers and cobwebs, perhaps you fondly remember haberdasher Abe Stark's Hit Sign, Win Suit billboard at the base of the right-field scoreboard in Brooklyn's legendary Ebbets Field. Chances are you feel more fondly about it than the ads that assault the senses in today's arenas.
We asked some additional writers to weigh in with their favorite venues: Harvard Stadium Boy and man, undergrad and ancient grad, I've been attending games at Harvard Stadium since 1959. In typically Harvardian fashion (Class of '73), let me be overweeningly prideful about the place: It is no less than hallowed ground. Foremost, it is, like so much connected with the school, the first -- the nation's oldest stadium, built in 1903. It is also important. In 1906, when football was in danger of being abolished because of its fatal violence, Yale's Walter Camp proposed widening the field to open up play. But the stands at Stadium were immovable, so the forward pass was introduced instead. (So, you can blame Harvard Stadium for Terry Bradshaw.) More than that, though, in its current incarnation -- a modest 30,898 seats, filled (if then) only biennially for The Game with Yale -- Harvard Stadium is football on a perfect scale. With the stands snug to the field, every seat is a good
Retired Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell has withdrawn his proposal to revive the long-vacant Tiger Stadium as a venue for boxing, amateur football and amateur baseball with 10,000 to 14,000 seats.
They're building a plush new ballpark for the Tigers in Detroit, and that's fine. It'll be ready next spring. It won't come cheap ($295 million), but Tigers owner Michael Ilitch and a consortium le...
DETROIT (AP) -- Part of Tiger Stadium's upper deck came crashing down Monday, nearly a decade after the final major league game there and hours after a judge refused to stop the historic ballpark's demolition.
If you're covered in wrinkles, whiskers and cobwebs, perhaps you fondly remember haberdasher Abe Stark's Hit Sign, Win Suit billboard at the base of the right-field scoreboard in Brooklyn's legendary Ebbets Field. Chances are you feel more fondly about it than the ads that assault the senses in today's arenas.
We asked some additional writers to weigh in with their favorite venues: Harvard Stadium Boy and man, undergrad and ancient grad, I've been attending games at Harvard Stadium since 1959. In typically Harvardian fashion (Class of '73), let me be overweeningly prideful about the place: It is no less than hallowed ground. Foremost, it is, like so much connected with the school, the first -- the nation's oldest stadium, built in 1903. It is also important. In 1906, when football was in danger of being abolished because of its fatal violence, Yale's Walter Camp proposed widening the field to open up play. But the stands at Stadium were immovable, so the forward pass was introduced instead. (So, you can blame Harvard Stadium for Terry Bradshaw.) More than that, though, in its current incarnation -- a modest 30,898 seats, filled (if then) only biennially for The Game with Yale -- Harvard Stadium is football on a perfect scale. With the stands snug to the field, every seat is a good
Retired Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell has withdrawn his proposal to revive the long-vacant Tiger Stadium as a venue for boxing, amateur football and amateur baseball with 10,000 to 14,000 seats.
They're building a plush new ballpark for the Tigers in Detroit, and that's fine. It'll be ready next spring. It won't come cheap ($295 million), but Tigers owner Michael Ilitch and a consortium le...
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