Brad and Kristen Schopieray celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary last week with a trip from their home in South Lyon to the corner of Michigan and Trumbull in Detroit. They brought gloves, a ball, a lifetime of nostalgia, and then proceeded to play catch on the grassy expanse of outfield where Tiger Stadium used to be.
After throwing the ball for 15 minutes in centerfield, they moved to the infield, and tossed the baseball for a while there, too.
The Schopierays’ presence — it was late morning on a midweek summer day — tells us a lot about the latest battle over the grounds of the former Tiger Stadium.