Column: Line Drives — Hallowed ground just another field

[This is my column in the June 19 issue of The Commercial Review.]

To me, it was just another field.

An abandoned block in Detroit’s city limits, the fenced-in patch of overgrown grass is easy to miss.

Passersby and commuters in and out of the city may glance at the nine-acre plot and not think twice about it.

That’s what I did.

It was just a field — another remnant from when Michigan’s largest city was booming and thriving with life and culture.

To others, the field had more significance.
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