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| Tigers "Star Wars Night" 2012 |
Last fall, you
may remember Lucasfilm partnered with Major League Baseball for a series of
promotional events at MLB parks across the country to celebrate the release of
Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu Ray.
The Detroit Tigers hosted a “Star Wars Night” game at Comerica Park with
over 70 characters – possibly the largest turnout from the MLB/LFL promotion --
representing Great Lakes Base and Great Lakes Garrison. This season, the Tigers asked us back to bring the power of "The Force" back to the ballpark!
“I go to Michigan
a few times a year to watch the wolverines play football,” admits Legion – who
drove up all the way from Columbus to attend this particular event; not bad
considering he’s a Reds fan at heart.
And while he may not know many of the northern Ohio and Michigan members
who frequently troop together, he says that everyone made him feel at home –
which is one of the greatest things Great Lakes Base has going for itself. “It
was very fun to troop outside of Ohio,” said Legion.
In
fact, it is that sense of being part of a much larger team team, along with a
great partnership with Great Lakes Garrison that allows us to draw together
over 60 Star Wars characters for major events like this. This year’s “Star Wars
Night” with the Detroit Tigers was also the 9th largest crowd in Comerica Park
history!
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| "Let the Wookiee win!" |
Lumpy (dressed
as Chewbacca) and several of the guys got to meet Quinten Berry during the
pregame parade of Star Wars characters around the warning track at Comerica
Park. Meanwhile, members of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra treated the crowd with live Star Wars music. The National Anthem for tonight’s game
as performed by the legendary Four Tops, which according to Lumpy, “being on
the field for that was really a neat thing!!!” Darth Vader then threw out the first pitch, accompanied by a
pair of TKs along with G-Man and dankelzaga from Shadow
Squadron!
Footage of the
Star Wars character parade and first pitch were shown on the nationally
televised FOX Sports broadcast.
You can see clips of Great Lakes Base and Great Lakes Garrison from the FOX Sports Tigers/Yankees broadcast HERE.
*All video courtesy of Major League Baseball and FOX Sports
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| photo courtesy of dankelzaga |
Early in the
game, there was a 30 min. rain delay, during which time -- some of the boys
dropped in on Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in the FOX Sports broadcast booth to
have some fun. In fact, our teams
of Star Wars characters put in some "extra innings" of our own to keep fans
entertained, while they waited for the weather to clear and the game to resume.
Once the game
got back underway, things were NOT looking good for the Tigers as the “Evil Empire”
Yankees had taken the lead and were looking to crush “Star Wars Night” like a
formation of AT-AT Walkers. Then Omir Santos' game-winning sacrifice fly, in the bottom of the ninth gave
the Tigers a dramatic 4-3 win!
HEY YANKEES… that's what you get for taking over our locker room! Hope you boys enjoyed the smell of 30+ armor bins
and wet Wookiee fur! ;)
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