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A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium by Richard Bak,
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Final Detroit Tigers game at Tiger Stadium - The final game at Tiger Stadium was played on September 27, 1999 between the Detroit Tigers and the Kansas City Royals. The Tigers were victorious 8-2.
Tiger Stadium - Tiger Stadium is a stadium located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, USA. It hosted the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team for nearly a century before that franchise moved into the new Comerica Park in 2000.
Michigan Central Station - Michigan Central Station (also known as Michigan Central Depot or MCS), built in 1913 for the Michigan Central Railroad, was Detroit, Michigan's passenger rail depot from its opening in 1913, when the previous Michigan Central Station burned, until the last Amtrak train pulled away from the station on January 6, 1988. The building, located in the Corktown district of Detroit near Tiger Stadium about two miles southwest of downtown Detroit, still stands today, though it remains unoccupied.
Comerica Park - Comerica Park is a baseball stadium located in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was constructed as a replacement for the popular, but aging, Tiger Stadium for the Detroit Tigers.
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