Wearing a new dark-blue Detroit Tigers baseball cap with an orange capital ``D'' stitched in the center, Tim Marston, a visitor from Indianapolis, says the stereotypes he has heard about Detroit are ``just wrong.''
``Everyone told me Detroit stinks, the downtown is dirty and I would get robbed if I went up there,'' says Marston, 32, as he stands outside Comerica Park, pulling peanuts from a brown paper bag. ``I admit I believed some of that myself. But look around. Everyone is having fun, the streets are clean, nobody bothers you, and there is a ton of things to do.''
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