Even if you have a car, bus, limousine or ride in a luxury limousine from anywhere in the suburb of Detroit Comerica Park a big draw this summer, mainly due to the success of the 2006 season and the Tigers this season with a record with that 500 for the year so far.
The famous park is almost 10 years and is another in a series of picturesque parks had fallen ball in the heart of a great metropolis.
And of course, Tiger will be the theme of thispark. Its all-brick exterior is surrounded by stones brought Tiger head with a baseball between his teeth. Tigre giant menacing frowns, looking at the two main entrance doors, both right-field line. Comerica Park has a tile in place is more likely to be perceived - the area between the two sides of the avenue knight wallpaper.
The wall serves as the Tigers Wall of Fame, with the last names of six Tigers left-center wall immortalized. OnHall referred to above, there are six 13-foot sculptures of former Tigers Al Kaline size, Hal Newhouser, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Ty Cobb and Willie Horton. Besides Cobb, have a number before it, the other five played the retirement engraved directly into one of the bricks under their statues.
The name of Tiger legends that have played before numbers were worn, decorate the right-center field distance of the brick. A notable exception is the name of Harwell, the famous TigerBroadcaster who moved into the 2002 season after 55 years in the cabin.
Comerica Park has many other functions, though not all are original. The first thing you notice when you are coming from the field of play, the big scoreboard in left field. A 147 m wide and 202 meters high, is the largest baseball. The idea was to Jacobs Field Jumbotron Cleveland, the biggest has been copied in Detroit and the role they borrowed somethinglarger.
Sitting on the scoreboard, on both sides, are a pair of shimmering orange and black tigers, whose eyes are green, when a tiger is a hit and run away from home in the classic Survivor song "Eye of the Tiger."
The park takes allegations of other architectures Jacobs Field, with the towers of light in the form of toothbrushes. While Tiger Stadium for the distinctiveness of the bank, nor light can be detected by the most in Detroit, Comerica Park is only visible from close range. Fieldis dug below street level, so that the ball park does not seem to be very large, as you approach from the outside.
Directly above the background of the latter in the center of the field is the General Motors Fountain, which remains throughout the game unless a break Tiger homer. It is used before and after games, if splashing water courses, which are choreographed to music.
The fountain is at the heart of the fireworks that occurs after every Tigers home game Friday night. SprayingWater up to 150 meters high, is the fountain is programmed to change the light and music. When you sit upstairs, you can easily head cap of General Motors behind the fountain, which is a sponsor.
Other hard facts about Comerica Park:
Physical Address: 2100 Woodward Avenue
Cost: U.S. $ 300 million (HOK Sport)
Construction began October 29, 1997
Public funding pays 38.3% (115 million U.S. dollars) the cost of the stadium.Tigers owner Mike Ilitch walk the remaining 61.7% (185 million dollars)
The naming rights: Comerica Bank will pay 2.2 million dollars a year by 2030
A dirt road that leads from the pitcher's mound to home plate, where to cut the batter outside the box is shaped like Home Plate
As a tribute to Tiger Stadium, the flagpole is located between the center and left field is initially in the game. What has changed after the 2002 season, when the wall was moved to left field
Original post was 40,000.In 2005, he moved from the bullpen in right field and 950 seats were in place
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