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PostPosted: Mon 9:14, 27 Dec 2010    Post subject: Spring Training in Tiger Town

Like a number of major league baseball teams, the Detroit Tigers head to Florida every year for spring training. And if you want to see the Tigers play any preseason games, you might have to hitch a limo or luxury sedan to the airport and fly down Lakeland [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], FLA [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for a seat in the stadium.
Tiger Town is the Spring Training headquarters for the Detroit Tigers and the regular season home of its minor league farm team in the Class A Florida State League, The Lakeland Tigers. It's owned and operated by the City of Lakeland. The City of Lakeland's Parks and Recreation Department is responsible for maintaining the facilities.
Named in honor of the late Joker Marchant, Lakeland's former parks and recreation director [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Joker Marchant Stadium was used by the Detroit Tigers for Spring Training for the first time in 1966 at which time it contained seating for 4,900 spectators. Expansion projects undertaken in the early 1970's and the addition of new grandstands along the left field foul line in 1988 brought the stadium capacity to its current capacity of 7,100 seats. But just because the stadium is older than most in Florida, you can't start calling Joker Marchant "The Joke."
The Detroit Tigers began coming to Lakeland for Spring Training in 1934 and have been coming back each year ever since. The 70-year relationship between the Detroit Tigers and the City of Lakeland is the longest lasting relationship between a major League baseball team and a spring training host city.
The most impressive aspect of attending a Spring Training game in Lakeland is the fact that the Tigers have trained in this city for so long. With the exception of the World War II years (1943-45), Detroit has trained in Lakeland since 1934, the longest relationship between a franchise and host city in spring baseball history. The next closest isn't even that close: the Phillies in Clearwater since 1947. For an even more amazing fact, consider that 18 of the 30 MLB teams changed or established new spring homes in the '90's alone.
The ballpark has aged rather well. When you drive into the main entrance of Tigertown you'll be surprised at how new the outer facade looks. With a host of palm trees greeting your arrival, the ticket booth is the nicest of its kind, with the word "Tickets" emblazoned in big orange letters arched overhead. On either side of the ticket booth, the Tigers pay homage to their history with large banners containing artist's renditions of Tiger greats Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Norm Cash, and Al Kaline.
The first thing you notice when you enter Joker Marchant are the 698 bright orange box seats that comprise the first rows of seating below the main aisle in the grandstand that extends from first base to third base. The majority of the seats are above the main concourse and are aluminum bleachers with blue seat backs.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the stadium is the large grandstand section down the left field foul line [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which was built in 1988 and increased Joker Marchant's original seating capacity of 4,900 to 7,027.
The metal bleacher section is one of a kind due to its height and structure. Built in concrete, it's the only bleacher section in Florida that can't be removed once Spring Training is over. The section also towers high above the field. Sitting at the top and even with the outfield fence in left field [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the vantage point is as far away from the field as you can get, and is the Grapefruit League's premiere nosebleed seat.
It's from up here that you realize just how spacious the outfield is. At 420 feet to center and 340 down the lines, Joker Marchant has the most outfield territory of any ballpark in the state of Florida. If center field were just a little bit deeper [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the outfield dimensions would actually form a square.
Changes are on the horizon in Lakeland, with $10 million in renovations scheduled to be completed in time for the 2003 spring schedule. Enhanced seating, including the creation of a berm in left field, will increase Joker Marchant's capacity to 9,000.
While the team continues to plan changes to Tiger Town there's always the one constant that fans can count on -- the Tigers in Lakeland. And the team recently extended its lease with the city through 2016.
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father had wide with a towel submerged into the river, gently wipe the face for his son, when grazing muttering: with his father to combine her in the proximity of a belt plant laborers. It is understood namely 2 years antecedent, he was rescued in the waters of the Han River, a drowning Gutian four students.

Easy Tiger River out in the cold river 40 meters,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], near to drowning. At this point, parked at the pier on the Sinopec gas station worker Zhanwei Bing Chen Zhujiadun water, also seen in the river, he immediately hurled from the boat easy to Tiger a life preserver. to save energy. About 200 meters downstream, he dragged a lighter fetter, this ambition be her mother shoved to the shore, has arrived Zhanwei Bing, who will she carried to the beach. Carried on in the mother, his left foot Wei a bit. See the ambulance arrived,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he quietly left the scene, went family and took a shower, and then return, according to Hui understand who sacrifice to save the message in the upstream.
his brave deeds in people's jaws lips: Yesterday 9:40 Xu, Port District, Wuhan City Changfeng Township Duoluokou Han River side of the village, a mother a river to perpetrate suicide, Zeng Hui Fenyong to the rescue, annihilated.

10:00 or so, he suddenly saw a male wearing a red sweater floating in the river for help. At that time he did not know Duoluokou happened Village partition of the river, not time to meditation, to take off his wrap and jumped down.
Zhu dad was my mother's husband Yang Zhao Hui clearly remember the position when rescue. He annotated that 9 o'clock yesterday morning, for the family chores, her mother quarreled with him, leaving one He followed after, pulled his wife in the Hanyang a dike, but she broke free, saw her flee toward the embankment beneath, jumped into the river water.
Zhu rescued 61-year-old mommy, who lives in Duoluokou countryside. Yesterday p.m., correspondents rushed apt the Wuhan branch of common adore of the hospital, she has been resuscitated, merely were emancipated after, can not be accurately recalled.


Easy Tiger inquiry, Zhu is able to float so in no way her mother, her body may be overweight, plus wearing a sweatshirt and a sweater, buoyancy is lofty, the river has not been quite fortunate to swallow.

25 years old, he saved the drowning trees and gallant, smart relay in-law





human weep and shook that the mother of 2 kilometers downstream drift, 25-year-old youth in Wuhan and has easily made the Tigers the same act according to knowledge - he jumped into the trees and, You than 40 meters, and finally rescued by her mother.



26 leap annuals antique, he skirmished to paint a faultless arc of life
Zeng Hui Fenyong saving in time, 25-year-old Yi Wuhan young tiger is 2 km downstream Chen Zhujiadun waters mend their own wooden pier.
blue T-shirt, black jeans, white socks, Zeng Hui a river to save the time of wearing, still intact. He took off his black boots,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was once widely for tightly in his arms: According to Hui rescue feat: Yesterday 9:40 Xu, a walk in the riverside, he saw something drowning, quickly took off his shoes, leap, jumped into the river to the rescue,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but was its own river swallowed.

hero rescued her mother's husband recalled the final period
yesterday 15:30 Xu, Zeng Hui's body lying above the side of the Han River. Blisters above his peel was too sallow river, his face still remained sediment.


see entire these people, all sad tears. They know thatin the cold river was drowned after 4 hours, a miracle has not occurred.
Distraught father, sister, brother, clutching the hand of a hero do not ambition to let go lightly to retention the tiger
recalled the episode
father, sister, stroking the body has been crying photo Hui Photo: journalist Ching Ming
Metropolis Daily News (Cambridge intern reporter Xu Jiu Tian Chang Zhou Hui) yellow body bags slowly closed, the 26-year-old Suizhou to the Han Young workers who along to Hui, father and sister have not listened weep, do not watch the tears of numerous onlookers.
This is a sad time: 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the Han River Duoluokou Village, Zeng Hui's body had equitable been rescued. His dad was earth wide, and my sister had willow, frantically rushed over, kept pressing his breast. How they do not trust in the morning too jump relatives, has left them worked.

Yang dad said he had 71 years old, walking, catch up to only shrieking for help. There was just a young man in a contiguous river rove, heard his wail and saw someone struggling in the river, came quickly, emulate the jump down. Seeing the flow downstream of Zhu mother is floated onward, Yang all the course Daddy would grab up on the shore. When he went to Chen Zhujiadun pier, her mother had been rescued by dissimilar young man. He asked her appoint, young man but would not mention. After the ambulance arrived, he followed his wife to the hospital.
until the interview with this reporter, the Yang Hui Zeng Daddy That has been the consumption of that message. He was silent a long while, said: After 80 glorious
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