After a $2.6 million renovation, the historic Hamtramck Stadium — one of the few remaining Negro League ballparks in America — was unveiled Monday with a ceremony and a Negro Leagues tribute baseball game.
The stadium, built in 1930 and the former home of the Detroit Stars, is one of five major Negro Leagues home ballparks in the U.S. The Friends of Historic Hamtramck Stadium, the nonprofit that hosted the event, has worked since 2012 to preserve and restore the stadium, to make it into a community resource and a recreational asset.
"Today we see how the years of vision by a few, the years of planning by many, and the years of both struggles and cooperation between government, organizations and community can have a major impact," Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib said.