Baseball

Ely Hydes was walking to a Detroit Tigers game at Comerica Park, when he fell 15 feet to the ground after a part of concrete broke on the Spruce Street pedestrian bridge above M-10.

Coincidentally the story of the film is about an aging Detroit Tiger who is attempting a Swan Song season and make it to the World Series. This is of course what happened the very next year, as the Tigers would go on to be World Series Champions.

20,000 Detroit Tiger fans booed the New York Yankees after they intentionally walked Miguel Cabrera in the 8th inning, preventing him from getting his 3,000th career hit.

Harry Caray was an original. He was an unabashed fan of baseball. He rooted for the home team. But he was also one of the few baseball announcers who told you how it was, even with something as simple as a batter not getting a timely hit when one was really needed. "He...popped it up", Caray would bellow with disappointment. Caray called a lot of baseball game, and eventually was inducted into the broadcast wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. That Hall of Fame career had an early stop in Kalamazoo where Caray worked for broadcast pioneer and future Detroit Tigers owner John Fetzer

Babe Ruth's first professional career home run with the Providence Grays at Hanlan's Point in Toronto, Canada on September 5, 1914 which landed in Lake Ontario

Lugnuts baseball is back in April with an REO Speedwagon tribute coming in May. It'll be the biggest party this side of REO Town and we'll show you the specialty jerseys you can look forward to seeing (and maybe getting) this year.

If you're a baseball fan and like exploring the history of the game, we hope you have a really big piggy bank.

This is a rather unusual item to find on an auction site, but it does include a signature.

Strikeout Baseball is a new version of America's Pastime that can be played with as few as four people. It sounds crazy, but Strikeout Baseball is being backed by Lansing native, and Hall-of-Fame pitcher, Jon Smoltz.

Chicago White Sox Hall of Famer Frank Thomas and investors are buying the "Field of Dreams" complex in Dyersburg, Iowa.