The Comerica Park scoreboard displays a message welcoming fans to the 'Bark In the Park' on June 21, 2016. (Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Motor City Bengals celebrates the return of Comerica Park’s popular “Bark In The Park” promotion with the story of how a Detroit Tigers pitcher named Pug Cavet once dogged the Boston Red Sox.
In January 1914, the Detroit Tigers signed a 24-year-old left-handed pitcher named Tillar H. Cavet, whose nickname was “Pug.” E.A. Batchelor of the Detroit Free Press sent readers to their dictionaries when he explained that Cavet earned the moniker because of “the shape of his nose, which is decidedly retroussé.