Fans Can Leave Prayers For Tigers In Wall Near Ballpark

DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Fans flocking to Detroit's Comerica Park for the 2016 baseball season can leave written pleas for their favorite team's success -- or for other reasons -- in a prayer wall next door to the stadium.

A 9-foot-tall wooden wall at adjacent St. John's Episcopal Church is expected to be dedicated Sunday, according to The Detroit News.

The dedication coincides with St. John's annual prayer service for the Tigers before the start of the regular season.

Church member Joe Alff tells the newspaper he got the idea for the wall after seeing one resembling Jerusalem's Western Wall at a church in Illinois.

Alff enlisted a neighbor to build the St. John's wall.

He says the church is putting together a team to periodically "pray that God answers" the prayers.

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