Tenuous Connection 1 - Navin Field / Briggs Dream Car / Ray Liotta / Joe Jackson

[Otto Puzzell]

A human, and a car. Each linked to the other, in a Kevin Bacon way. Can you make the connection? It's not that hard, really.  

No points for naming the human and/or the automobile. Only a complte answer, illustrating the connection, takes the point.

[qwaszx]

Tom Tjaarda's wonder

[Otto Puzzell]

Hello, qwaszx , and welcome to AutoPuzzles. 

I don't think your reply matches the question posed in the puzzle.

[SACO]

John Tjaarda and prototype Lincoln Zephyr 1933 ?

[Otto Puzzell]

John Tjaarda and prototype Lincoln Zephyr 1933 ?

That's not Tjaarda, nor a Zephyr

[SACO]

Briggs Manufacturing?

[Otto Puzzell]

Briggs is correct - so, what is the connection ?

[rickjames8]

I believe the actor is Ray Liotta, who starred opposite Martha BRIGGS in unforgettable?

If that is the answer you're looking for, I'd give the point to SACO for getting the Briggs bit - I just googled the two names.   ;-)

[Otto Puzzell]

Welcome to AutoPuzzles, rickjames8

That is Ray Liotta.

Much more super-freaky work to be done to solve this one.

[Otto Puzzell]

Up to the Experts..

[JMC]

Is the car connected to a movie he starred in?

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes, it is.

However, the car was not in the movie. It didn't even exist during the period the person that Liotta would later portray was becoming famous, and in some quarters, reviled. That fame was earned within the span of his character's first stint on Earth. 

I'm being very generous with that answer / clue. 

[Tackitt]

Are you referring to Liotta's portrayal of Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams?

[Otto Puzzell]

The puzzle pieces are falling into place 

[Tackitt]

Oh, for God's sake!  Liotta played Joe Jackson in the movie. Joe Jackson played for the White Sox. The White Sox's home field was in Chicago. Chicago was the home to the 1933 World's Fair.  The 1933 World's Fair was where Ford's Briggs body Special was debuted. whew!

[Otto Puzzell]

Check those sox.

Great work - but that's not it. 

[Otto Puzzell]

Pro time

[Ray B.]

At the April 20, 1912 opening of Navin Field (then Briggs Stadium and finally Tiger Stadium), Joe Jackson scored the very first run ever recorded there.
Walter Briggs Sr, who had opended the Briggs Manufacturing company in 1908, was the owner of the Detroit Tigers. One of his first actions was completing major renovation and expansion plans to Navin Field. He double-decked the grandstand and converted the park into a bowl. It reopened in 1938 as Briggs Stadium.

[Otto Puzzell]

Awesome detective work, Ray!  

2 Points