2023 Mileage: 224.0
This afternoon, I rode while watching Tiger Town, a 1983 movie that was shot in Detroit and was the first movie ever shown on the Disney Channel.
Totally leaving aside its quality as a movie, it would have been far and away worth watching because of its inclusion of shots of Tiger Stadium, as well as Detroit figures such as iconic longtime (and Hall of Fame) manager Sparky Anderson, broadcasters Ray Land and Al Ackerman, and, best of all, beloved and legendary broadcaster Ernie Harwell.
Most poignantly, early in the film, a shot is shown of Tiger Stadium, and a character says, "Oh, it'll be here forever!" One could only wish that were so ... Michelle and I attended the penultimate game ever played there, on September 26, 1999.
I hadn't known of this movie, nor had I known that the song "Go Get 'Em, Tigers," which features prominently in the late part of the film and was important in the Tigers' 1968 World Championship season that stamped me as a fan for life, was shown in the credits to have had its lyrics written by Ernie Harwell. I will most certainly come back to it again, though.
This gave me a virtual ride of 17.7 miles in 1:18.
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