TWENTY-THREE
DETROIT, MICHIGANChester had been awed by Denver’s Kramer Park, and overwhelmed by Kansas City’s Blues Stadium. But Detroit’s Briggs Stadium was in a class by itself. Home of the 1945 pennant contending Detroit Tigers, Briggs Stadium was a monster monument of steel and concrete three times the seating capacity of Blues Stadium.
This was the big time. A real major league park.
Briggs Stadium was double-decked all around. The roof down the right field soared skyward, one hundred feet high, and the facade came out a few feet over the playing field. This was a hitter’s park. The foul lines were close for pull hitters like himself. As a backdrop in straightaway center field, the scoreboard was the largest Chester had ever laid eyes on. The expanse of grass was an even green. The
