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Aug. 19, 2008.
Sun sets on what's left of the corner Aug. 23, 2008.
The empty stands, where seats had been removed and sold, on a wintry day on Jan. 31, 2009.
Tiger Stadium waits to learn its fate: preservation or demolition. Photo taken Jan. 31, 2009, seven months after demolition bega
The same day a city panel voted to raze the rest of the park, the area was littered, a sign of things to come for the site.
An excavator tears into the last of the outfield light towers Aug. 22, 2008, leaving only three of the original eight standing.
The Corner is reduced to only a corner Aug. 27, 2008.
A wind gust strikes up the snow on Tiger Stadium's sacred playing field Jan. 31, 2009.
Tiger Stadium thaws from its last winter April 2, 2009.
More than 80 people gathered June 3, 2009, to show their opposition to the decision to level the stadium. Photo: Marvin Shaouni
After the last of the right field light towers was felled Aug. 22, 2008, an excavator tugs down the tower's supports.
The hallowed playing field lies buried in snow on Jan. 31, 2009.
Tiger Stadium's blue seats were the only ones sold because the orange ones weren't under the overhang and rusted. Jan. 31, 2009
The stadium still loaded with seats on June 2, 2009, the same day a city commission voted to level the ballpark.
Supporters of saving the stadium held an 11 p.m. rally June 3, 2009, at the Corner. Photo by Marvin Shaouni.
An excavator rips down the last of the outfield stands Aug. 23, 2008.
The demolition the previous fall allowed Detroiters a wintry peek into the ballpark. Photo taken Jan. 31, 2009.
The exposed innards of the stadium were boarded up. Photo taken Jan. 31, 2009.
The ramp to the upper deck June 2, 2009, the day Detroit's Economic Development Corp. commission voted 7-1 to level the park.
Tiger Stadium sits alone June 3, 2009, awaiting its pending demolition. Photo by Marvin Shaouni.
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