A Titanic survivor: The boy who was terrified by Navin Field in Detroit
A Titanic survivor: The boy who was terrified by Navin Field in Detroit Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water. There’s survivor accounts recalling how horrifying and extremely quiet the silence was after the thousands of people in the water all died and stopped screaming all around the same time. On the evening of April 14, 1912, in the chilly waters of the north Atlantic, the passenger ship RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and quickly sunk. Of the estimated 2,224 people on board, more than 1,500 died in the frigid waters in what was the worst peacetime maritime disaster in history. Less than a week later, while news continued to trickle in about the Titanic sinking and loss of life, the Detroit Tigers opened their new steel-and-concrete ballpark, called Navin Field. Located in the Co...