April 22, 2008

Clocking Ticking Louder on Tiger Stadium Decision

While Friend of the Fungo Gary Gillette and the non-profit Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy work feverishly to raise funds to avoid, ahem, razing the ballpark, the City of Detroit’s demolition wheels are in motion.
At the very least, a demolition team is likely to start razing about 75% of the ballpark in May or June, as [...]

January 6, 2008

Tiger Stadium Seats, Continued

On Oct. 17 of last year I wrote about the arrival of my Tiger Stadium seats. Since then we’ve received almost three dozen comments from Tigers fans in the Detroit area and beyond in which they talk about everything from the condition of the seats when they arrived (almost universally dirty) to finding blue paint [...]

October 17, 2007

Breaking News: My Tiger Stadium Seats Arrived

I haven’t been able to un-box them, but my Tiger Stadium seats arrived today. If you’ve ever wondered how much two molded plastic stadium seats weigh, I can tell you: 90 lbs. At least that’s UPS’s estimate.
I’ll upload some photos soon but in the meantime, here’s some quick info on them:

Filthy. A good hose-down and [...]

September 17, 2007

The Ultimate Impulse Buy

Just ordered mine. Ships in November!