Tiger Stadium Final Game: Fick Grand Slam and Final Inning

[Mikeb9577]

The words "Thank you old friend" Gave me shivers, no joke.

[24sportsfan24]

I was at this game when I was 6 years old. My dad had a press pass so I was able to go on the field after the game and meet all the old time players... just thinking about it now brings me shivers. Easily one of my favorite stadiums ever and definitely my most memorable baseball moment.

[generalbullmoose]

A 28 second trot...can you blame him?

[Iceman2692]

It looks so tiny.

[JustinVerlander35]

I have a DVD of this game, amazing.

[carlinrulez666]

@JustinVerlander35

You got it from the Tiger Stadium box set?

[JustinVerlander35]

@carlinrulez666 It's a DVD box set called The Essential Games of the Detroit Tigers. It has 4 DVD's. Game 5 of the 1968 World Series, Game 5 of the 1984 World Series, Last game at Tiger Stadium, and Game 4 of the ALCS.

It only cost me like 20 bucks and it was well worth it.

[mgjohnson1]

The great Vin Scully said there wasn't an upper deck in the entire United States that put you as close and more on top of the action than the upper deck at Tiger Stadium. The radio and television announcers were only 50 feet from home plate and they wouldn't have time to react to foul balls. Tiger Stadium wasn't as much a stadium as it was a gigantic enclosed arena. I miss it dearly.

[FoodBankCompany]

Did anyone ever notice Robert Fick is wearing Norm Cash's number 25 and the Grand Slam ball hit the 1968 Pennant, which is the team Norm Cash was on.

[mingrassia33]

Oriole fan here. Can someone please tell me when they built the new ballpark in Detroit why they didn't try to make it look somewhat like Tiger Stadium? It always looked so cool on tv with the blue facade and the outfield grandstand? The new ballpark in Detroit looks horrible on tv.

[Knightmessenger]

@mingrassia33 That's a good question. and I have no idea why.

I think the new stadium looks worse in person than on tv. None of the seats are that good and the concourses are still crowded with lines. Ultimately, it looks generic, symetrical and boring.

The only thing interesting is the view of the downtown buildings but that's not within the actual stadium.

[Deckers9870]

Thank you old friend! Classic line from Frank Beckmann.

[BRYANMEARS1975]

tiger stadium was my favorite ballpark along with old comiskey park in chicago

[Knightmessenger]

11 years ago today, also on a Monday.

You know if anybody has a good tape of this game? The official dvd set (Essential Games Detroit Tigers) is too bright, faded in color, does not have the replays (you just see the live shot) or the post game ceremonies.

[tmoore4075]

I love the call of Fick's home run. I remember sitting in my basement and watching this like it was yesterday. Thanks for the upload.

[frynross1]

The coolest part about the grand slam is that Fick is wearing Norm Cash's no. 25, and his grand slam ball hit the '68 world champions banner, which is when Norm Cash played for the Tigers.

[madscout96]

4:56 That girl obviously has never had a Vernors lol

[ChevyManSS350]

Thanks so much for this great video. I really miss this place!

[EagleLC21]

absolute bomb

[knicksfan89]

and just about to get the dvd of this game as part of the essential games dvd

[knoxjay]

Man , this stadium brings back so many memories for me , i truly loved it , and i was never there! Watched Detroit TV with George Kell and Al Kaline for years , and though i am a Jays fan , i loved the intimacy , at least percieved of the park. To be honest i dont like the looks of the new one one bit....

[cojo823]

talk about an intentional home run derby pitch to Fick!

[playajake18]

i didnt see anyone post this comment so i will say it doesnt anyone know that the street behind the left field wall is called kaline drive

[playajake18]

i kno right

[captaino16]

That first hitter wasn't wearing a number. Anybody know who it was and why he wore it?

[glcuzz]

@captaino16 they were wearing the numbers of old Tigers......he was wearing Ty Cobb - - who was playing in a day when they had no numbers.....

[mahz6]

@captaino16 The batter was Gabe Kapler.

[lpncubs3]

The day and location of my first baseball game.

[playajake18]

r u serious how old were u

[lpncubs3]

4 years old

[spomante]

Can you make an individual post for the taco bell commercial. I have been looking for video of that commercial forever!!!! Drop the Chalupa!!!

[playajake18]

what the hell screw the commercial watch the grand slam

[tjltd211]

a decade today that this game took place

RIP tiger stadium

[WWE2K9X]

Ugly ass stadium.

[oldglory1999]

Really....

[WWE2K9X]

I have no idea why people like going to a stadium with things falling apart, crappy washrooms and obstructed views.

[oldglory1999]

You wanna know why, well everyone already new most of those facts, what you don't understand is that tiger stadium was filled and still is to this day with memories from all the games that took place there. your obviously either not from michigan or a tiger fan. It may not mean much to you, much to a bunch of us, that stadium will always mean something. Even though it's not there anymore, it's there in spirit. So there's your explanation

[playajake18]

@oldglory1999 preach it i liv in michigan and im a tiger fan tell that jackass that he doesnt know what he is talkin about even though it is not there anymore i still go there and play baseball search 2009 tiger break in and u will see me and my frend almost go to jail for that stadium and now that it is completly gone no seat or anything left me and him go to play baseball there all the time we live in corctown the neighborhood that the stadium was in

[GrandValley2011]

@oldglory1999:

Well said. I love that park.

[TheDJ596]

@oldglory1999 i feel you i know what you mean. It is never the same when you get something that replaces another thing that has been there for years and has grown up with you and created memories even if the new thing is supposed to be bigger and better you still wanna keep the old thing. I think its sad wen they take down any old park like tiger and yankee

[playajake18]

you've never been there when the tigers were still playing there hav u

[DimebagDarrellCFH13]

@WWE2K9X

Thats the fun and whats so great about old ballparks. But you seem to forget to mention the best views of the games and all the history makes up for not having a bunch of bathrooms and all this technology and bullshit. You must be some young kid who just wouldn't understand.

[AwesomoComics]

i beg to differ

[playajake18]

u beg to differ

[lpncubs3]

it was built in the 1800's you expect it to be all fancy with tech stuff. I like Comerica Park and all but they should have done what they did with New Yankee Stadium and make it look the same. Tiger Stadium 1896-2009 baseball isnt the same without you.

[playajake18]

@lpncubs3 actually tiger stadium was built on april 20, 1912 the same day as fenway park they just had an old stadium on the same location on michigan and trumbull

[lpncubs3]

@playajake18 yeah i know that i got the wrong information when i wrote that

[playajake18]

y dnt u go suck a dick

[playajake18]

what baseball city do u liv in whatever stadium that is its ugly

[DimebagDarrellCFH13]

@playajake18

fuck you, that was THE most beautiful park ever!

[oldglory1999]

Does anyone possibly have the entire game ( i mean commercials, ceremony, the whole 9 yards) on tape? I know their maybe copryright issues, but if someone does, i'd be willing to buy it

[playajake18]

i would be to

[lilnwty1]

RIP Taco Bell dog

[wolverine22blue]

hahah... Poor little fella.

[ernestbungle26]

GREAT video, thanks,God i'm 28 and man is my head and heat FULL of GREAT memories and old Tier Stadium, if only Detroi wasn't in such financial shambles, they could have made a GREAT museum out of one of the originals.I'll always cherish those memories of hot dogs nachos and family and friends and good ol Tigers baseball and good ol Tiiger Stadium.

[TVForces]

thank you so much for putting this on youtube. i just got back from the corner tonight. long live tiger stadium. i hope this is always on youtube so i can watch it over & over.

[GrandValley2011]

This is my favorite video on youtube.

[playajake18]

ur damn right

[banner74]

You know,I've been to a game at CoPa & I'd been to a few games at The Corner,there's just no comparing the two,The Corner is where every legendary baseball player you can name plied there trade,where generation after generation of fans watched,screamed & booed till they couldn't hardly talk,The Corner was steeped to overflowing in history and memories that you could feel every time you entered that hallowed ground.CoPa is a beautiful park,it just doesn't have that same mystique The Corner had.

[gunnergahs]

DROP THE CHALUPA

[NHgirl1]

I feel for you guys with all of your strolls down memory lane......Fenway had it's moments when its future was questionable. So much rich history, so many memories. One of the last greats still standing. I know this last game at Tiger Stadium was certainly the end of an era, and I already mourn for the day this would happen in Boston.  God bless John Henry and co. and their dedication to preserving a classic landmark and national treasure.

[BobJ1979]

Fick's Home run was a lot like Reggie Jackson's in the 1971 All Star game....Except one light tower over.

[jayhawks25]

omg I remember that michael jordan commerical!

[pladsailboat331]

i was at that game

[carlinrulez666]

I would like to know why the Tigers fans voted Jack Morris the best pitcher, when the best Tiger pitcher is Hal Newhouser.

[banner74]

There's also a argument to be made for Mickey Lolich.

[carlinrulez666]

Lolich was a great pitcher for the Tigers. However, Newhouser has a better winning percentage (58% - 53%) and Newhouser was 57 games above .500 (207-150). Lolich was 26 games above .500 (217-191), even though he won 10 more games than Newhouser. Lolich did have a lower WHIP (1.23), than Newhouser (1.31). However, Newhouser had a lower ERA (3.06) than Lolich (3.44).

[carlinrulez666]

I am a Yankee fan, but I would like to have visited Tiger Stadium at least once.

[mdumas43073]

By the same token, this Detroiter would have loved to have attended a game at Yankee Stadium. (Particularly the old, pre-1973 model.)

[carlinrulez666]

I would like to have gone to the Yankee Stadium pre-1973 as well. I wasn't even born yet.

[pladsailboat331]

i was at that game i was only 4 but i remember all of it

[carlinrulez666]

Excellent. I went to the last game at Yankee Stadium. But, you are lucky since you went to Tiger Stadium. I was 13 when the last game at Tiger Stadium, was played.

[knoxjay]

What a shame these old classic stadiums keep leaving the MLB. I never was at a game in Detroit , but spent my childhood watching George Kell and Al Kaline call games , it really was a special place IMO , loved the quirky makeup of the old park.

[pladsailboat331]

i even remember the last game there the sounds the sights the smells were amazing. I remembe the grand slam and hearing eveyone sin take me out to the ball game better than ever and also when they showed comeica park on the big screen and everyone booed!! write me if you want to hear more

[pladsailboat331]

oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh yeah you said it emembe the hot dogs there??? I only went there when i was just a kid but i can still remembe it

[DisneyWorld85]

Man do I miss that ballpark...:-(

[ibtomato]

baseball sucks cock

[gowings4402]

don't watch it then dumb ass

[krappp1996]

DROP THE CHALUPA

[wholikesjello]

to think that stadium doesnt even exist anymore

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

And so does the old Yankee Stadium which is going to be ending very soon after the game is over.

[otnasolegna]

He means Brook's Lumber on Trumbell St.

[carsuck7]

oh and one more thing..go to 1:28..HE FAKES HIS EXITEMENT LIKE AN IDIOT...UVE GOT 2 BE KIDDING ME THIS GUYS A JOKE

[carsuck7]

oh by the way 1:20 ray lane says LOOK OUT FOR THE YUMBERYARD..first off its LUMBERYARD IDIOT, second off that fuckin made no sense at ALL

[garci1r]

Ok, not that I want to get f-bombed by you suck7, but he says Lumberyard, and there was a lumberyard beyond the right field wall. So maybe it was a little off since it hit the roof, but I think maybe he deserves a little slack.

[carsuck7]

are u kidding me, after he hit that home run and he was trotting the bases he rambles on and on about weird shit, like a dumbass that has torette syndrome..and he fuckin mumbles every word

[carsuck7]

ray lane sucks balls at announcing..he doesnt know what hes talking about at all and he mumbles everything..he may have down syndrome

[littlemonster2x2]

that was the stadium i gree with nick a lot!!

[ashguy1]

I was listening to the tiger pre-game the other day in my squad car and someone talked about the Darrell Evans record breaker in the upper deck in 1985 and the kid that caught it...well that kid was me and it just brought back such memories of the old ball park and what it was like to go to a game there. I wish throw back games could be played there once in a while! I realize that wouldn't make sense cost wise but wouldn't it be cool!!!

[AMDKING63]

we love baseball and the game

[nickmordo]

OMG Ray Lane!!!! That is old school Channel 50!!

[nickmordo]

That was a REAL stadium. Comerica is nice and modern and all that, but Tiger Stadium had a feeling when you walked in. It spoke baseball. I miss it all the time. It was the first 12 years of my life.

[MichiganManiaInc]

Tiger stadium is, was, and forever will be one thing and that is. Best American Baseball Ever!

[SportLoverAlex]

Drop The Chalupa!

[ordealbyfire]

lol

[dftns19]

How can you watch this without it getting all dusty in the room?

[letsgoredwings19]

Good ol' Tiger Stadium. I loved it!

[RCmack]

I'm hungry for a Ball Park frank after watching this!

[Xone7]

I remember watching this game so well. I remember what I was wearing that day. Such great memories.

[seribro515]

mannn. I love this place so much. I hate to see it go.

[JDub900]

Thank you so much for posting this. I remember weeping during Ernie's speech when I watched the game the first time, and I teared up a bit watching this. CoPa is a beautiful facility, but there is something almost spiritual about baseball at "The Corner."

[utihc]

Amazing truly amazing, I was walking into comerica last thursday 4-3-08 and saw the old place and started to tear up. God do I miss that place it was like my summer home for the first 9 years of my life.

[krispy916]

I was at this game with my dad when I was 11 years old. Gosh, what a great game.

[69UM24OSU12]

It's good to see Todd Jones finish the game. He's the only current member of the Tigers who played in Tiger Stadium.

[burr1aj]

I will remember this event for the rest of my life. I was sitting in left field right behind the wall scoreboard. This is so awesome!

[mhz313]

STRIKE 3!! left him standing like the house on the side of the road

-ERNIE HARDWELL

[playajake18]

@mhz313 its harwell stupid

[mdumas43073]

It's a shame this great moment has to be accompanied by the insufferable Frank Beckmann on play-by-play.  Doesn't anyone have Ernie Harwell's radio call to link up with this?

[fins91]

touchdown MIIIIIIIICHIGAN

[generalbullmoose]

Not to mention the seemingly more insufferable Ray Lane...judging by this, anyhow.

[Sundevilhp29]

Tim-UNG-ga Biakabatuka!

[Lpeters199]

Insufferable? I nominate Howard Cosell.

[TheLilJay]

touchdown

[briancalifornia1]

Thats to bad they left tiger stadium it should have been left alone and upgraded like fenway park was In fact it opened the same day as fenway april 20 1912. They shouldn't leave historical ball parks with new and modern ones theres no very many active ones anymore it's a shame for americas past time

[ConfidentLefty]

This was Tiger Stadium's finale, but wasn't it also the finale of the man who served up that grand slam, Jeff Montgomery?

[playajake18]

@ConfidentLefty no robert fick now he is a free agent

[generalbullmoose]

@ConfidentLefty Yes, this was Montgomery's last game.

[dubscape]

I think having the World Series their last year would have been something.

[Balue115]

i wish they still played there it was great when they did

[NEPatriot]

That is a LITERAL GRAND SLAM! That ball was smoked, shellacked, creamed, crushed--or to put it in another way--it was MOIDERED!

[playajake18]

i think that ball landed in chicago

[sackc26]

They should've never left Tiger Stadium. Renovation should've been the option. Cheaper and with the extra money they could've cleaned up the area around it. I miss that place...

[MtrCity67]

I was at that game. This clip brought back a lot of memories. Thanks!

[drut1]

I only went there twice. Wished I could have stayed there forever..

[stringking7]

Wow, it sure brings back the memories. I'll never forget where I was when I watched that happening for real. Thanks for the nostalgia!

[djslickrock]

Thank you for this! It gave me goosebumps. I miss the Ole Girl.