Fifty years ago, the spring of 1968 was a time of turbulence in the City of Detroit. The ashes from riots the previous summer were still smoldering. Signs of destruction were all around, including along Michigan Avenue, where the Tigers would begin their season on April 10. Just days before Opening Day, Martin Luther King Jr., the great civil rights leader was gunned down at a Memphis hotel. Tension was in the air.
During the riots in the summer of 1967, there was one thing that all the citizens of Detroit could agree upon: the Detroit Tigers.