{"id":4126,"date":"2013-06-30T07:10:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T13:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:34:03","slug":"ballpark-tour-tiger-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/ballpark-tour-tiger-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Tiger Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Tiger Stadium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong>Detroit<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Team:<\/strong> Tigers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong> 1912 &#8211; 1999<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong> 1<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Stadium opened as Navin Field on April 20, 1912, the same date as Boston&#8217;s Fenway Park. \u00a0It would serve as the home of the Tigers until the final game on September 27, 1999, an 8-2 Tiger victory over the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>My one and only trip to Tiger Stadium was during its final season, on August 2, 1999, when rookie Kip Wells made his major league debut for the White Sox, picking up the win in the victory against the Tigers. \u00a0The stadium reminded me of the old Comiskey Park, with the dark ramps and tunnels leading out to the glorious green of the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stadium Name:\u00a0Tiger Stadium Location: Detroit Home Team: Tigers Years in Service: 1912 &#8211; 1999 Visits: 1 Tiger Stadium opened as Navin Field on April 20, 1912, the same date as Boston&#8217;s Fenway Park. \u00a0It would serve as the home of the Tigers until the final game on September 27, 1999, an 8-2 Tiger victory over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[597,1663,2286,3540,126,613,230,49],"class_list":["post-4126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-comiskey-park","tag-fenway-park","tag-kip-wells","tag-navin-field","tag-royals","tag-tiger-stadium","tag-tigers","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}