What does old Tiger Stadium site look like now?

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To keep us from stealing the historic dirt from the infield!

The gate is actually open, but there is an issue with people taking dirt from pitchers mound.

People are stealing dirt? Seriously?! That has got to be a new low, even for the scrappers.

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People are stealing dirt? Seriously?! That has got to be a new low, even for the scrappers.

Im serious!

I was over there just about every weekend last summer helping fix up the grounds, and there was never any dirt on the pitchers mound.

People would literally come there to visit, and scoop up a hand full of dirt and take it home in a cup or a little plastic baggie.

We would put down a bag of fresh clay one week, and it would be completely gone the next week. The people out there who think they got authentic dirt, have no idea that the 100 year old historic dirt they thought they where scooping up was just put down the week before.

It got so bad, we where thinking of putting up a sign asking people not to steal it.

[smogboy]

People are stealing dirt? Seriously?! That has got to be a new low, even for the scrappers.

For sentiment sake, who wouldn't want to scoop up some dirt that they think Jack Morris, Mark Fidrych, Mickey Lolich, or some other MLB pitcher once stood on? It's a touching thought but little do they realize that most of that dirt is removed, replaced, and re-sculpted after every season.

It's a touching tribute to a place that held so many good memories for people.