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Detroit Tigers History And Information

The Detroit Tigers are a professional Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. On April 25, 1901, the Detroit Tiger baseball played their first game at Bennett Park in front of ten thousand fans. There is a legend says that the Detroit Tigers got their nickname when a sportswriter, whose sports teams were called the "Tigers", wrote that the team "fought back like tigers".

A stadium was constructed for the team next to Bennett Park called Navin Field. Later, it was renamed Tiger Stadium. Unfortunately, the structure was used by the Tigers team until 2000.

     Hank Greenberg made his first postwar appearance with the Tigers on July 1, 1945. A massive crowd of more than 55,000 fans flooded Detroit's Tiger Stadium to welcome the war hero home. And Greenberg didn't disappoint, slugging a home run to help the Tigers win the game. "I was playing from memory," Greenberg recalled in Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of their times. I'd hardly hand a bat in my hands since I'd left in 1941, and after I hit that home run they gave me an unbelievable standing ovation."

An even bigger thrill took place on September 30, the last day of the season. The Tigers were engaged in an excruciatingly tight pennant race with the Washington Senators, and needed to win this game to capture the flag.

Going to the ninth inning, The Tigers trailed, 3-2. They managed to load the bases with two outs, and guess who strode to the plate against Senator pitcher Nelson potter? Hank Greenberg. On Potter's second pitch, Greenberg unleashed a mighty swing and sent the ball rocketing into the left field stand. That one swing sewed up the pennant for the Tigers, who went on to win, 6-3.