Navin Park, Detroit, Mich.
Navin Park, Detroit, Mich.
Year: 
1916
Publisher: 
C. T. Photochrom
Type(s): 
Postcard
Identifier(s): 
R-39161
Language: 
English
Source: 
Mike Skreptak Collection; Dexter Box
Notes: 
Postmarked 1916; "The Detroit American League Club Home is located at Trumbull and Michigan Avenue and covers and entire block. To reach Park take Trumbull or Michigan Cars going west"; Jack Madden (author of the postcard) tells his father that he saw Ty Cobb play in a baseball game there; addressed to Mr. Ben Madden. Navin Park, aka Navin Field, opened in 1912. It was renamed Briggs Stadium in 1938, and then Tiger Stadium in 1961.
Subject(s): 
Navin Park (Detroit)
Parks
Cobb, Ty, Baseball Player
Briggs Stadium (Detroit)
Tiger Stadium (Detroit)
Baseball
American League (Baseball)
Madden, Jack
Trumbull Avenue (Detroit)
Michigan Avenue (Detroit)
Stadiums
Place(s): 
Detroit (Michigan)
Rights: 
Public Domain
Repository: 
University of Windsor
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