(Another) New deadline for preservation of Tiger Stadium

While Tiger Stadium continues to fall, the possibility of preserving a portion of the stadium remains. November 1st is the new deadline for the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy to come up with a financial plan in order to proceed with fundraising for the March 1st deadline. The March 1st deadline will determine whether or not a portion of the stadium and the ball diamond can be saved. There is now a Plan B for preserving the ball field and erecting a building to showcase Ernie Harwell's massive baseball memorabilia collection. The initial plan was to save about 3,000 seats between the dugouts and the field. Plan B is about $10 million cheaper than the initial plan which should help the Conservancy preserve at least the field.

On a side note - my Tiger Stadium page at Squidoo is currently ranked #170 out of hundreds of thousands of other pages. If you have a moment, take a look at it. It's a history of Tiger Stadium with pictures from before there was even a ball field at The Corner.

There are videos of the last ballgame at Tiger Stadium, the demolition of Tiger Stadium, and great facts and stories of this historic ballpark.

Listen to a song about Tiger Stadium

"The Corner" was written and sung by Ben Hassenger about his and others' memories of Tiger Stadium. He plans on heading down to The Corner from his home near Lansing to shoot a video. You can take a listen at his MySpace page or the Detroit Free Press.

I think he did a great job. It's got a nice beat to it and his lyrics paint a picture of what once was and will now only be a faded picture in our memories.

Video of Tiger Stadium Demolition

I found this video of Tiger Stadium's demolition on YouTube this afternoon. I don't mean to be so heavy these days on the demolition of Tiger Stadium, but it's not everyday that a historic Michigan structure with so many fans is ripped down.

This was recorded by someone from www.BuildingsofDetroit.com.

Tiger Stadium Demolition

Tiger Stadium, originally uploaded by &Martin101.

You can see this machine begin to rip into Tiger Stadium. This area is between the centerfield bleachers and the seats in left-field.

There's no going back now. In less than a month we'll know if even a portion of it will be saved as a museum or something. After that, Tiger Stadium will be no more.

Please, please, please do not put some awful looking Wal-Mart or some monstrosity in it's place.

Demolition work has begun on Tiger Stadium

Tiger Stadium has suffered it's first wounds in the demolition phase of it's existence. A gaping hole was torn in the cement block wall behind the bleacher seats. For pictures see this article at the Detroit News. Demolition is currently only taking place between Trumbull and Cochrane while awaiting the August 1 deadline for the Tiger Stadium Conservancy or any other group to raise the funds necessary to save a portion of the stadium between the dugouts.

Get your Detroit Tigers tickets to a game at Comerica Park and make a final pilgrimage to Tiger Stadium before the game and before she is gone except for photographs and treasured memories.

Learn more about the history of Tiger Stadium

Watch this video and remember how Tiger Stadium looked back when the Tigers were still playing there -