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Missing Detroit Tigers' Opening Day? Here are nine greats from the past

The Free Press' Anthony Fenech and Mandi Wright share the sights and sounds of Comerica Park before the Detroit Tigers' 2019 home opener. Detroit Free Press

Thursday was supposed to be one of baseball’s holiest of holidays: Opening Day (the earliest in MLB history, at that), with the Detroit Tigers originally set to play in Cleveland at 1 p.m.

Instead, the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the 2020 season’s start back at least to mid-May — and that’s an optimistic time frame —leaving the Tigers and MLB are in limbo.

But we won’t let that stop us from remembering some of the highlights of Opening Day for Tigers teams of the past.