Local Businesses Waiting Anxiously For Opening Day
DETROIT (WWJ) Metro Detroit is 48 short hours away from Opening Day at Comerica Park — the unofficial local kickoff to spring, and an undeclared holiday for baseball fans. After a long, cold winter and...
View ArticleKids Get An Opening Day All Their Own
DETROIT, April 3, 2013 – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the Detroit Tigers will make health, fitness and the fight against childhood obesity the focus of a special Kids Opening Day at Comerica...
View ArticleParts Of Comerica Field Still Frozen Just 2 Days Before Opening Day
DETROIT (WWJ) April showers may bring May flowers, but what happens when March and early April bring nothing but cold winds and freezing drizzle? Heather Nabozney, head groundskeeper at Comerica Park,...
View ArticleCuts Expected To Silence Tigers Opening Day Flyover Tradition
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - An Opening Day tradition in Detroit is expected to be silenced this year due to cuts as part of the automatic reduction in the federal budget. The flyover of military aircraft from...
View ArticleEat ‘Em Up Tigers! Baseball Season Officially Begins In Detroit
DETROIT (WWJ) – The moment Tigers fans have been waiting for all winter long has finally arrived: Opening Day in Detroit. The Tigers are set to kick off their 14th season in Comerica Park against the...
View Article5 Things We Already Know About The Tigers
By Eric Thomas It’s too early to make any serious evaluation of the Detroit Tigers. Running onto the field to make judgments or pronouncements would be a fool’s errand. Commentary is daily, so this is...
View ArticlePhil Coke: Opening Day In Detroit Is Special
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) The big Tigers home Opening Day game has begun, and at least the first few minutes unfolded exactly as Phil Coke envisioned. What did he expect when fans heard his name? “I hope...
View ArticleAndy Dirks: ‘It Takes A Whole Team’
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) Anyone who thinks Tigers’ outfielder Andy Dirks doesn’t know his place on the team has to think again. Dirks fielded questions on Tigers home Opening Day Friday about the player...
View ArticleLeyland’s Opening Day Outlook, Superstitions, Pre-game Rituals
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) It’s not exactly his first time at the rodeo, but does longtime Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland have any longstanding pre-game rituals? “No, not really, I do probably have...
View ArticleStriped Suit Earns Jim Nelle The Title Of ‘Tiger Man’
Detroit Tigers fan Jim Nelle, 55, of Winterset Iowa and originally from Farmington Hills is known to fans as “Tiger Man” because of his Tiger striped suit. Asked how he could afford the great seats...
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