If people didn’t like the idea of Comerica Park replacing Tiger Stadium, can you imagine how a domed stadium of 1970s vintage would’ve been received in Detroit?
Detroit Tigers owner John Fetzer announces that the Tigers have signed a lease to build a $126 million domed stadium along the river in downtown Detroit. The complex will seat 52,000 for baseball, and 60,000 for football. Lawsuits, a failed bond issue, and the construction of the Silverdome in nearby Pontiac will eventually kill the idea.
This photo spread appeared in the 1972 Tigers Yearbook.
We know how that worked out. Five years later the Tigers pivoted toward a renovation that didn’t quite materialize the way this model, published in the 1978 Tigers Yearbook, had it drawn up.
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