Tiger Stadium
The Corner: home of the Tigers from 1912 to 1999.
Tiger Stadium, known earlier as Navin Field and then Briggs Stadium, was the Detroit Tigers' ballpark from 1912 to 1999. It stood at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues in the Corktown neighborhood, which gave it the nickname "The Corner", and the Detroit Lions also played there in 1938–39 and from 1941 to 1974. Counting Bennett Park, which occupied the same corner before it, it was the oldest site in use in the major leagues by its final season. The last Tigers game there, on September 27, 1999, was an 8–2 win over the Kansas City Royals capped by a Robert Fick grand slam onto the right-field roof. After a decade of rejected redevelopment and preservation plans the stadium was demolished in 2009, and the old field became the Corner Ballpark for youth sports in 2018.
Quick Facts
- Nickname
- "The Corner"
- Address
- 2121 Trumbull Avenue
- City
- Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- Groundbreaking
- 1911
- Opened
- 20 April 1912
- Closed
- 24 July 2001
- Demolished
- 30 June 2008 (began), 21 September 2009 (completed)
- Owner
- Detroit Tigers (1912–1977); City of Detroit (1977–2009)
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