Twins vs Tigers - July 11, 2008 @ Comerica Park

Yes, that's right. I went to Comerica Park to see the Tigers play the Twins. I did not have any tickets to see this game in advance. The only reason why I decided to go was because the weather was supposed to be perfect. If the weather was going to be bad, I would have probably not even gone at all. I arrived at Comerica Park at 12:30 pm. The gates were going to open at 5:00 and I had lots of time. The first thing I did was go to the Tigers ticket office to buy tickets for the game.

Here is a photo of me infront of the Tigers Box Office.

The guy working in the Box Office gave me a whole bunch of Tiger schedules for my collection.

After I got my Tiger tickets. I decided to go and check out the Tigers Team Store.

They have a 2 floor shop with everything you could think off. I purchased a Tigers t-shirt and some other little things.

The best part about the Tiger's Store was that you could see a bit of the field from the 2nd floor. Here is what the view looked liked.

After, I finished looking in the store. I decided that I would walk around the whole stadium from the outside and take some photo's.

Here is a picture of me infront of the stadium.

I want to get in there to SNAG!!!

I also got a photo of Ford Field which is right across the street from Comerica Park.

Another cool thing about Comerica Park is that you can also see inside the stadium from Centre Field.

Here is a view to homeplate from Centre Field.

I also took a photo of the scoreboard from the outside.

Yes, there are lots of ramps at Comerica Park to get up to the Upper Deck level.

After, I walked around the whole stadium and took loads of photo's with my camera I went to get a bit to eat at a local restaurant.

When I finished eating and took a rest from walking. I went to the gate to start linning up. I had about a 35 minute wait but luckily there are many places to sit down, compared to other stadiums.

Then it was showtime! The security guards and ushers are so friendly compared to other stadium's I have been too. I got my bag quickly checked and ran inside the stadium.

I ran to deep right field. I spotted Justin Verlander and Joel Zumaya shagging baseballs out there. Then one baseball came my way and just fell short and landed on the warning track. Verlander ran over to pick it up and he picked it up and turned his back, but then turned back around and threw me my first baseball of the day. This baseball was an Official Training Baseball. I then caught another baseball on the fly for my 2nd baseball of the day. Once again this was a Official Training ball.

Then the Tigers BP ended and it was the Minnesota Twins turn to have Batting Practice.

I got my first ball of the day from the Twins thrown by Boof Bonser. Then I asked Scott Baker for a baseball that he had in his hand and he tossed me my 4th baseball of the day.

I also got Livan Hernandez to toss me my 5th baseball of the day. He remembered me from last season when I asked him for a ball.

The highlight of my day was getting Ron Gardenhire to throw me my 6th baseball of the day. I yelled out his name as he was catching ground balls in BP and got him to toss me a ball. What is it this season with me getting baseballs thrown by Major League managers?

As I walked back to RF. I was looking in the rows to see if there were any baseballs and look what happened to be sitting in one of the rows.

Look at the baseball carefully. This is not a regular Major League baseball. Here is a zoom in of it. Yes! I had finally snagged a 2006 All-Star game baseball. I have no clue on why the Tigers were using these. This baseball was sitting here all BP and know one else had seen it. I snagged my 7th baseball of the day in style!!

Here is a photo of my 8th baseball of the day. I had got this baseball infront of the Twins dugout by a coach that I could not identify.

After BP I asked Justin Morneau to autograph my baseball and he did. I also got the chance to talk with him for 10-15 minutes after BP. Here is a photo of the baseball.

I also got Denard Span to autograph my ticket stub from the game.

Here are some photo's that I took during the game. I walked around the whole stadium taking photo's.

I also stood by CF and tried to see if I would find any baseballs in the trees from batting practice.

Before leaving for home, I decided that I would go for a ride on the Baseball Ferris Wheel.

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 Here is me on it!!!

I also got 1 collectable Comerica Park cup.

Stats:

1) 8 Baseballs at this Game

2) 2 Autographs (2008 Homerun Derby Winner: Justin Morneau)

3) 1st Collectable Cup this season

4) 1st 2006 All-Star ball of the season

5) 35 Photo Post!