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The
Detroit Tigers baseball franchise played their first game
for the newly established American League on April 25, 1901
at Bennett Park in front of 10,000 fans. After trailing 13-4
entering the ninth inning, the team staged a dramatic comeback
to win the game 14-13. A legend holds that the Detroit Tigers
got their nickname, which they have held for over a century,
after a sportswriter (a graduate of Princeton University,
whose sports teams were called the "Tigers") wrote
that the team "fought back like tigers". The team
eventually finished third in the eight team league. Eleven
years later, an elegant stadium was constructed on the site
of Bennett Park and named Navin Field. In 1961, Briggs Stadium,
as it was then known, was renamed Tiger Stadium. Tiger Stadium
was used by the Tigers until the end of the 1999 season. Since
2000, the Tigers played in Comerica Park.
The team abandoned legendary Tiger Stadium, then
tied with Fenway Park as the oldest active baseball stadium,
in 2000 in favor of the new Comerica Park. Many longtime fans
complained that the "CoPa" lacked the charm of its
predecessor, while others saw it as a necessary replacement
of an aging facility. In 2003, the Tigers avoided the 1962
New York Mets' modern record for losses in one season by winning
five out of the last six games of the season. Since the mid-1990s,
the team's fortunes have been dismal; they last posted a winning
season in 1993.
In
2004, the team signed or traded for several talented but high-risk
veterans, such as Ivan Rodriguez, Ugueth Urbina, Rondell White,
and Carlos Guillen, and the gamble paid off. The '04 Tigers
had a 29 game improvement over the previous season, one of
the greatest improvements in baseball history.
Founded: 1893, in the minor Western League. In 1900
that league became the American League.
Home ballpark: Comerica Park
Uniform colors: Navy blue, White, and Orange
Logo design: An Old English font "D"
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