From The Detroit News, "The Home Newspaper":

April 03. 2011 7:27PM
Old Tiger Stadium gets a spring cleaning

Mark Hicks / The Detroit News

The old Tiger Stadium site just underwent a bit of spring cleaning.
At least 60 volunteers from local groups including Motor City Blight Busters and the Mower Gang spent a few hours today helping restore the legendary site.

The crews brought shovels and tools to clear brush and whack weeds. They collected 84 bags of debris and installed donated baseball bases, said Tom Nardone, founder of the Mower Gang, which rehabs city parks. "It just looks a lot nicer and cleaner."

The groups also planted more than 1,000 sunflower seeds along the former outfield fence line. Corn could be added when the weather warms, Nardone said.

"By midsummer there should be a fence of sunflowers and corn — like the 'Field of Dreams,'" he said, referring to the 1989 baseball film.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110403/...#ixzz1IVYJbpWu


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Glad to see the Mower Gang [[some of my heros) and Motor City Blight Busters cleaning up this site. It goes right along with French's work to clean up the Michigan Avenue ROW through this stretch. What is the status of the Tiger Stadium site these days? Sunflowers and corn sound great....will the city allow it?