Baseball during the 1967 Riots

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The Tigers played a DH on Sunday against the Yankees, losing the 1st game 4-2 and winning the 2nd game 7-3. They then went on the road, returning on August 8th.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/ml...gers/26588951/

In late July 1967, the Detroit Tigers moved a home series with the Orioles to Baltimore because the city's riot and curfew forced the closing of Tiger Stadium."I thought that was out of line," Jim Northrup said of the decision to move the games. "It was too dangerous to play ball in Detroit but we had to go on the road and leave behind our wives and kids? Back then, baseball players didn't question things. You just did what you were told."
The Sunday the riot began, Ray Lane and Ernie Harwell were covering a game at Tiger Stadium for WJR Radio.
"We didn't know it was a riot at that time," recalled Lane. "We weren't allowed to say anything about the smoke coming in over the leftfield stands. Jim Campbell and WJR told us not to mention it."