July 10 in Tigers and mlb history:
1911: Sherry Magee, star OF for the Phillies, knocks out umpire Bill Finneran with one punch after being ejected for disputing a called third strike. He is suspended for the season, but upon appeal he will be reinstated after five weeks and 36 games. The Phils win, 4 - 2, behind Grover Cleveland Alexander, who strikes out 9.
1914: Detroit's Billy Purtell and Marty Kavanagh combine to nab Eddie Collins with the hidden ball trick. It comes in the 9th inning and helps preserve an 8 - 8 tie with Philadelphia.
1916: For the second time this season, White Sox pitchers toss shutouts in a doubleheader, this time against the Red Sox. Lefty Williams wins, 4 - 0, then Reb Russell follows with a 3 - 0 victory. With the temperature at Fenway Park in the 90s, this is the first of three consecutive doubleheaders for the two Sox.
1920: After banging out 11 straight hits, Tris Speaker is stopped by Tom Zachary of Washington. It's the record until Pinky Higgins of the Red Sox will rack up 12 in a row in 1938. Speaker will hit .388 for the season.
1932: Indians flychaser Johnny Burnett collects a record nine hits in 11 at-bats in an 18-inning game iin which the A's outscore the Tribe, 18 - 17. Jimmie Foxx hits 3 home runs, and has 16 total bases and 8 RBI for the A's. After Philadelphia starter Lew Krausse is knocked out in the 1st inning, Eddie Rommel is forced to hurl 17 innings in relief as manager/owner Connie Mack, trying to save train fare, has brought only two pitchers; Rommel gives up a record 29 hits.
1934: The second annual All-Star Game produces Carl Hubbell's amazing feat of striking out five future Hall of Famers in a row. Charlie Gehringer singles off Carl Hubbell, off to a shaky start with two on base in the first inning, Hubbell uses his screwball to fan Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx. He adds Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to start the second. After three scoreless innings he leaves with the National League ahead, 4 - 0. The American League rallies, scoring nine runs off Lon Warneke, Van Mungo and Dizzy Dean, while Mel Harder pitches five shutout innings in relief of Red Ruffing to hold the lead. Frankie Frisch and Joe Medwick hit homers. Earl Averill's three RBI are decisive for the AL's 9 - 7 victory.
1935: The Tigers' 10 game win streak ends, despite a record-tying 10 doubles in a 12 - 11 loss in Washington.
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1281599057711042562/o3TECX4v?format=jpg&name=small
1936: At Forbes Field, Chuck Klein hits 4 home runs in one game, including the tie-breaker in the 10th, helping the Phillies defeat the Pirates, 9 - 6. The Indianapolis, Indiana native barely misses hitting an additional homer in the 2nd when right fielder Paul Waner catches his drive against the wall. At 36, Klein is the oldest player ever to hit four homers in a game, and the first National Leaguer in the 20th century to do so.
1945: The All-Star Game at Fenway Park is canceled because of travel restrictions. During the break in the schedule, 7 inter-league games are played for war charity. Plans for a USO-sponsored all-star game in Europe do not materialize, although the war in Germany is over and fighting in the Pacific will be over in 6 weeks.
1948: For the 6th time this year, Vern Stephens and Bobby Doerr of the Red Sox hit back-to-back homers as Boston beats the 2nd-place A's, 4 - 0. Jack Kramer scatters nine hits in the shutout to win his 7th straight. Ted Williams sits out the game with a damaged ligament, the result of being hit in the ribs while playfully sparring with Sam Mele on the train down from Boston yesterday.
1951: 2nd All-Star Game at Tiger Stadium. Ty Cobb throws out 1st pitch. Tigers George Kell and Vic Wertz only AL-ers to hit HRs. Using four home runs from Stan Musial, Bob Elliott, Ralph Kiner and Gil Hodges, the National League All-Stars defeat the American League at Detroit's Briggs Stadium in the 1951 All-Star Game. Kiner hits a home run for the third year in a row.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhGzuXCXcAAQvf_?format=jpg&name=small
1953: The Detroit Tigers selected Ralph Branca off waivers from the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1956: In the 1956 All-Star Game, Ken Boyer of the Cardinals makes three sparkling plays at 3B and gets 3 hits as the National League defeats the American League, 7 - 3. Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and Stan Musial all homer. Mays's pinch-hit 2-run home run off Whitey Ford is his 7th straight hit against the Yankee lefty.
1960: Harmon Killebrew of Senators and Tigers catcher Hank Foiles can only wait as game is delayed in 12th inning due to heavy fog. Senators won it 5-4 in 15 innings. Foiles in his Tigers debut (traded from Cleveland) cranked out 5 hits.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_HgA5lXoAAzdN2.jpg
1962: At newly-opened D.C. Stadium, John F. Kennedy becomes the first president ever to throw the ceremonial first pitch at an All-Star Game. Thanks to the game's MVP Maury Wills scoring two of the team's three runs and Willie Mays's amazing game-ending catch, the National League beats the Junior circuit, 3 - 1 in the first of two Mid-Summer Classics to be held this summer.
1968: The American League and National League reach an agreement on next year's expansion format. The twelve teams in each league will be divided into two divisions playing a best-of-five game League Championship Series to determine the pennant winner.
The Tigers are assigned to the new American League East division next season as part of expansion and realignment. They will become the last team to win the AL pennant in the regular season before division winners meet in the LCS.
1977: In the first game of a twinbill with the Brewers, the Red Sox strand a major league-record tying 20 runners, but still win, 8 - 5.
1982: The Rangers' Larry Parrish hits his third grand slam of the week in a 6 - 5 win over the Tigers, tying the major-league record set by Detroit's Jim Northrup in 1968. Parrish also hit grand slams on July 4th against Oakland and July 7th against Boston. Parrish will manage the Tigers in 1998-99.
1984: Tigers send 6 All-Stars to #ASG at Candlestick Park. Jack Morris pitches 2 scoreless IP. Lou Whitaker goes 2-for-3.
1984: On the 50th anniversary of Carl Hubbell's legendary five consecutive strikeouts in the 1934 All-Star Game, National League pitchers Fernando Valenzuela and Dwight Gooden combine to fan six batters in a row for a new All-Star Game record in the NL's 3 - 1 triumph. After Valenzuela whiffs Dave Winfield, Reggie Jackson and George Brett in the 4th inning, Gooden, the youngest All-Star ever at age 19, fans Lance Parrish, Chet Lemon and Alvin Davis in the 5th.
1985: The Tigers beat the White Sox 1-0. Lou Whitaker drove in Tom Brookens in the bottom of the 8th for the game's only run as Jack Morris & Tom Seaver locked in a pitcher's duel.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dhw7Hk4W4AEjgK2.jpg
1990: Six American League pitchers combine for a two-hitter and a 2 - 0 victory over the National League in a rain-delayed All-Star Game at Wrigley Field.
1998: Deivi Cruz hits a walk-off double to score Joe Randa and give the Tigers a 3-2 win over the Blue Jays at Tiger Stadium.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEYcjoGXsAAA2xn?format=jpg&name=360x360
1999: The Tigers defeat the Brewers, 9 - 3, before 25,374 fans in Detroit. This enables the club to top the one million mark in attendance for the 35th consecutive season for the longest streak in American League history. The Dodgers hold the record of 55 consecutive years. The Tigers will go on to top 2 million for the first time since 1988.
2001: The American League defeats the National League, 4 - 1, in the All-Star Game. Baltimore's Cal Ripken Jr. thrills the crowd by hitting a home run and winning the MVP award at the affair. Derek Jeter and Magglio Ordonez also homer for the Junior Circuit.
2005: Justin Verlander pitches in the Futures Game at Comerica Park.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DETv-jUXYAIqS2l.jpg
2007: In the 2007 All-Star Game, Ichiro Suzuki goes 3 for 3 with the first inside-the-park homer in All-Star Game history to win the MVP award. The American League wins for the 10th straight decision, the second-longest run in Midsummer Classic history.
2012: The National League romps past the American League, 8 - 0, in the 2012 All-Star Game, for its third straight All-Star Game win. 11 pitchers combine on a six-hitter, with starter Matt Cain getting the win. Melky Cabrera hits a two-run homer and is named the game's MVP, while a third member of the Giants, Pablo Sandoval, cracks a three-run triple in the 1st. AL starter Justin Verlander is shellacked for five runs in that opening frame.
2015: The Detroit Tigers released Joba Chamberlain.
2019: Jim Bouton, an excellent pitcher as a young man turned knuckleballer after arm injuries cost him his fastball, but better known as the author of Ball Four, one of the best books ever written about baseball, dies at 80. Blackballed by baseball's establishment after his book was published in 1970, he dabbled in acting and sports journalism before making a comeback in 1978 and writing a number of other books, including one on his quixotic fight to preserve a historic ballpark in Pittsfield, MA. He had been suffering from dementia for the past few years.
Tigers players and managers birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bobby_Lowe
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lowebo01.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/lowebo01.shtml
Bobby Lowe 1904-1907, manager 1904.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/walshji03.shtml
Jim Walsh 1921.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Buddy_Groom
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/groombu01.shtml
Buddy Groom 1992-1995.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/alcanse01.shtml
Sergio Alcantara 2020.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dwight_Lowry
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lowrydw01.shtml
Dwight Lowry 1984, 1986-1987.
Baseball Reference
