Frank Navin

He's ill in Chicago, and I know that he, uh, sadly, uh, feels awfully sad right now, uh, that he's not here, and I know that all the ball players and everybody connected with the game certainly miss as well, and we wish he could be here.

In his place, Frank Navin of Detroit is acting as, uh, major domo for the American League.

Now, the American League is going out there on the-

At Vrbo, we understand that even the best of plans sometimes need a little support, so we've planned for the plot twists.

But look at what else was in that issue of the Sporting News in a column beside the main story.

The headline reads, Frank Navin, the owner of the Detroit Tigers, answering Cobb's charge that he had been pushed out because of the scandal, told the papers that no, he had dismissed Cobb as a manager because he had failed.

22 years with that franchise, and on the way out the door, the owner's public position was that he simply had not been good enough.

Cobb signed with the Philadelphia Athletics and played two more seasons, the last of them at 41 years old, hitting .323.

Then for the next several decades, the park was named after the owners.

It was called Navin Field after Frank Navin and Briggs Stadium after Walter Briggs.

And then in 61, it became Tiger Stadium.

And of course, in 2000, when they moved, it became Comerica Park.