The day in which the Detroit Tigers open their home schedule for the season is always a big deal in Michigan. Many people take the day off of work (or take a half-day off) to either attend the game in person, or watch the game at a local establishment or at home on TV. It has become, as the title of this article suggests, an unofficial state holiday.
The Detroit Tigers rarely make it to the World Series. It's even more rare they win the World Series Championship. They did win in 1935, 1945, 1968 & 1984.
Every single person who attends the World Series this year between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs will be sitting in a seat that was made right here in Grand Rapids.
All of the seats in both Wrigley Field and Progressive Field were made by American Seating...
Baseball is back!
The return of spring training baseball is one of the sure signs that the end of winter is near, even if it's still too cold for baseball in Michigan.
Can the Detroit Tigers spring training results predict how the regular season will go?
World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner threw five scoreless innings of relief, and Michael Morse drove in the game-winning run with a bloop single as the San Francisco Giants beat the Royals, 3-2, in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series in Kansas City on Wednesday night.
Pitching a shutout can be a pretty hard thing to accomplish in baseball.
However, 13-year-old Mo'Ne Davis is doing it with style in leading Philadelphia's Taney Youth Baseball Association All-Stars to the Little League Baseball World Series.