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Detroit Tigers Winter Caravan

Friday, January 20, 2012

Comerica Welcomes Tigers, Expands Baseball Grant Program

The Detroit Tigers Winter Caravan stopped at Comerica Bank's new Michigan market headquarters in Detroit to visit with employees. During the rally, the bank announced an expansion of a grant program to support baseball and softball programs in Michigan.

Comerica Bank announced Friday that it would be expanding the Grand Slam Grant program, which provided $10,000 grant to a Metro Detroit high school to improve its baseball or softball program, to include central and western Michigan. The announcement of a second $10,000 grant came before an employee rally with Detroit Tigers Jose Valverde, Doug Fister, Brennan Boesch and Max Scherzer, along with broadcaster Rod Allen. The visit was part of the Tigers Winter Caravan through Michigan. Detroit's Renaissance High School received the first Comerica Bank’s Grand Slam Grant. The grant was used for equipment, a new scoreboard and a youth clinic. Employees from headquarters, and some of the 217 banks in Michigan, who attended the rally also donated…

Thursday, January 19, 2012

VIDEO: Tigers Caravan Takes in History, Americana at The Henry Ford

The Detroit Tigers Winter Caravan made a stop Thursday at The Henry Ford where coaches including manager Jim Leyland to get a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum.

The Detroit Tigers Winter Caravan visited The Henry Ford in Dearborn on Thursday. Manager Jim Leyland and coaches Gene Lamont and Lloyd McClendon toured the museum and received a behind-the-scenes look at the new Driving America Exhibit, which opens to the public on Jan. 29. The Detroit Tigers Winter Caravan continues Friday. The Tigers will open the 2012 season April 5 against the Boston Red Sox at Comerica Park.

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4:59 am on Monday, January 23, 2012

The Henry Ford gallery in Dearborn, Mich., is reopening after an extended period of remodeling to unfold an account of America's obsession with the automobile. Beginning Jan. 29, the exhibition “Driving America” will open to the general public. The $8 million project signifies the first major overhaul of the gallery in 25 years, said Henry Ford museum president Patricia Mooradian. Resource for …   more ›

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