Despite this, there were also several superstar hitters, the most famous being Honus Wagner, held to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Detroit's Ty Cobb, the " Georgia Peach.

Game 3 in Raleigh featured a triple-overtime thriller ( won by Detroit's Igor Larionov, the oldest player to score a last-round goal ), which sportscasters called one of the best finals games in history.

This was the fourth highest percentage in the United States for this category, the highest for a community outside of Oakland County, Michigan and the only one of the top seven places in this category that was not one of Detroit's northern suburbs.

It became heavily populated between 1910 and 1930 as one of Detroit's first commuter suburbs ; in the previous century Grosse Pointe was home to cottages, resorts, farms, and widely spaced lakefront mansions.

Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard.

Leaving a sock hop at Detroit's Graystone Ballroom one evening, Ballard accidentally was separated from her brother Billy, with whom she had attended the event.

Police confrontations with patrons and observers on the street evolved into one of the deadliest and most destructive riots in United States history, lasting five days and surpassing the violence and property destruction of Detroit's 1943 race riot.

Detroit's leading black-owned clothing store was burned, as was one of the city's best-loved black restaurants.

At both the 2010 and 2011 events, an ad hoc organization calling itself The Friends of the Nain Rouge has protested the banishment parade, arguing that the Nain Rouge is not to blame for the city's ills and that considering Detroit's population loss, no one should be banished from the city, particularly those who have been there the longest.

As was the case of Boston's Fenway Park and Detroit's Tiger Stadium ( two ballparks that opened one year earlier, in 1912 ), the intimate configuration prompted some baseball writers to refer to Ebbets Field as a " cigar box " or a " bandbox.

Grosse Pointe is one of the most affluent suburban areas in Metro Detroit, sharing a border with northeast Detroit's historic neighborhoods.

The trunkline starts in Downtown Detroit and runs through the city in a northeasterly direction along one of Detroit's five major avenues.

North of Monroe Avenue, the street runs through the Randolph Street Commercial Buildings Historic District before M-3 crosses under the People Mover again and turns northeasterly along Gratiot Avenue, one of Detroit's five major thoroughfares.

Inspired by one of his medical school professors, who taught preventive medicine and directed the laboratories at the Michigan State Health Department, Scheele followed up on a recruitment visit by Public Health Service ( PHS ) officers from Detroit's Marine Hospital.

The museum is one of Detroit's most popular tourist destinations.

The last victory, combined with Detroit's loss to Washington, enabled St. Louis to finish one game ahead of the Tigers in the American League.

As a printer, he was also a member of Detroit's Typographical Union 18 and was one of its two delegates to the International Typographical Union convention in Detroit in 1878.

The building also is home to the Fisher Theatre, one of Detroit's oldest live theatre venues.

There is a one block gap in Jefferson Avenue on Detroit's southwest side, between Clark and Scotten Sreets.

On November 7, 1959, Rogers married Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson, who became one of the major figures in Detroit's Motown record label.

WUDT-CA was the first Spanish-language television station to take to the air in the state of Michigan since W66BV, Detroit's prior Univision affiliate, flipped to being a TBN network translator in the early-1990s ; WUDT was also one of only three Univision network stations ( with KUNS-TV in Seattle and Univision O & O WQHS-TV in Cleveland ) in markets bordering Canada.

He was a partner in one of Detroit's top law firms for 20 years until he left to teach and write.

In the 1927 – 28 season, Holmes ' final one as a professional player, he appeared in all 44 of Detroit's games.

Calka raised $ 8, 000 to pay for their transfer from France to Detroit's Woodmere Cemetery, where Slovik was reburied next to his wife.

Despite Detroit's much better regular season record, the Oilers pulled off a six-game upset for their first playoff series win since 1998.

The MC5 earned national attention with their first album, Kick Out the Jams, recorded live on October 30 and 31, 1968, at Detroit's Grande Ballroom.

Yzerman's knee greatly pained him during the 2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs, but this did not stop him from leading the Red Wings from an early 2-0 deficit in their opening round series to defeat the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues en route to Detroit's fifth playoff series with the Colorado Avalanche, and the third time the two teams had battled to decide the Western Conference Championship.

Improvements came quickly and, in their remaining eight races in the East, Seabiscuit and Pollard won several times, including Detroit's Governor's Handicap ( worth $ 5, 600 ) and the Scarsdale Handicap ($ 7, 300 ) at Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York.

The defending Cup champions would win their first All-Star Game in 1950 by a 7 – 1 margin, thanks to Detroit's Production Line and the fact that five of the First and Second NHL All-Star teams were Red Wings.

Detroit's Garden Resource Program Collaborative also strengthens their gardening community by providing to their members transplants ; education on gardening, policy, and food issues ; and by building connectivity between gardeners through workgroups, potlucks, tours, field trips, and cluster workdays.

In Detroit's Comerica Park, some Tiger fans sported curly black wigs underneath their baseball caps in support of their long-haired right fielder.

Stanley Knox, Detroit's Chief of Police, denied the officers involved a Police Board of Review and refused to hear their side of the story, firing or suspending without pay all 7 officers at the scene.

So far, Detroit's 20 consecutive playoff appearances ranks tied for fifth in league history after 29 consecutive trips by the Boston Bruins from 1967 – 1968 to 1995 – 1996, 28 consecutive trips by the Chicago Blackhawks from 1969 – 1970 through 1996 – 1997, 25 consecutive appearances by the St. Louis Blues from 1979 – 1980 to 2003 – 2004, 24 and 21 consecutive berths by the Montreal Canadiens from 1970 – 1971 to 1993 – 1994 and 1948 – 1949 through 1968 – 1969 respectively as well as tied with their own streak of 20 seasons from 1938 – 1939 to 1957 – 1958.

The Cougars played their first game at the Olympia on November 22, 1927 and Detroit's Johnny Sheppard scored the first goal at the new building.

" The collaboration of two and their blend of art and technology gave the pottery its distinctive qualities as Detroit's contribution to the International Arts and Crafts movement and exemplified the American Craftsman Style.

In the 1994 film The Crow, based upon comic book of the same name, the protagonist, Eric Draven, and his fiancée are murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding on " Devil's Night " by a street gang on the orders of Detroit's most notorious crime lord, Top Dollar.

Detroit's soprano voice provided lead vocals on their biggest hit, " Stay ," which was No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for eight weeks in 1992.

* On October 2, 2009, WVMV / Detroit dropped their long-running smooth jazz format by playing a montage of jingles and airchecks from a prior format on the station, album-oriented rock WLLZ " Detroit's Wheels.

It was Detroit's twenty-second appearance in the Final, their last appearance being a win in 1998.

During NBC's pre-game show for Super Bowl XLIII, Detroit's affiliate WDIV-TV ran a ticker on their website, asking viewers to question his credibility as an NBC Sports panelist, given his past with the Lions.

That same year ( 1989 ), De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising became the earliest release of alternative hip hop, and numerous regional styles of hip hop saw their first legitimization, including Chicago hip house, Los Angeles electroclash, Miami's bass, Washington, D. C .' s go-go and Detroit's ghettotech.

It was Detroit's twenty-second appearance in the Final, their last appearance being a win in 1998.

The Wheels finished their lone season with the WFL's worst record at 1-13, and the worst luck as well: eight of Detroit's losses came by less than a touchdown, and they held fourth-quarter leads in seven games.

Under its new hot adult contemporary format, WNIC will still be Detroit's Christmas Station for the 2011 Holiday season, beginning their all Christmas format at 7: 10 on Monday, November 7.

' Our Italian Story ' focuses on some of Detroit's most prominent Italian-Americans, following their footsteps through their toughest challenges, their boom times and tracks them through wars and economic downturns.