Tigers head groundskeeper marks 22nd season in her ‘dream job’
Tigers host Indians at Comerica Park on Thursday
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It’s all thanks to Tigers head groundskeeper Heather Nabozny. She’s the first woman to ever hold that position in Major League Baseball.
Nabozny was brought on when Comerica Park was first being built in the late 1990s. At the time, Nabozny was one year into her new job the first women to ever hold the title as head groundskeeper for a MLB team.
Her path to the Detroit Tigers started as a teenager. She started working for her dad’s lawncare business in Milford. After two years at Northern Michigan University, she transferred to Michigan State University, for its Turf Management Program.
What is lost when an urban area is “renewed?”
That’s the question being asked by an exhibition called “Black Bottom Street View,” on display at the Detroit Public Library s Main Branch through March 15.
University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture professor Emily Kutil used a treasure trove of old photographs to recreate the long-gone Detroit residential area known as Black Bottom.
The neighborhood was the center of the city’s black community until it was torn down in the 1950s as part of an urban renewal effort that eventually included the construction of Interstate 75.
Kutil’s display groups photos by location to simulate the experience of walking through the streets of 1940s Black Bottom.