March 27 in Tigers and mlb history:
1879: Miller Huggins is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A second baseman adept at getting on base, Huggins will lead the National League in walks four times, score 100 or more runs three times, and regularly collect 30 or more stolen bases and an on-base percentage near .400. He will start as a player-manager with the St. Louis Cardinals before heading to the New York Yankees in 1918. Huggins will lead the Yankees to six American League pennants and three World Series titles, and his "Murderers' Row" club, which will win 110 games before sweeping the 1927 World Series, will be considered one of the greatest teams in history. Huggins will be selected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1964.
1948: Former slugger Hank Greenberg, who tormented the Cleveland Indians for most of his career as a member of the Detroit Tigers, is hired as the Indians' farm club director by Bill Veeck.
1958: The Detroit Tigers traded Pete Wojey and $20,000 to the Cleveland Indians for Milt Bolling and Vito Valentinetti.
1964: The Los Angeles Angels returned Leo Marentette to the Detroit Tigers following previous purchase.
1965: The Chicago Cubs purchased Bill Faul from the Detroit Tigers.
1973: Veteran pitcher Jim Perry of the Minnesota Twins becomes the first player in Major League Baseball to approve of being traded under the new "ten and five" rule. The Twins send Perry to the Detroit Tigers for Danny Fife and cash considerations. Perry, a 24-game winner in 1970, will win 14 games for the Tigers this year.
1973: The Atlanta Braves release former 30-game winner Denny McLain, ending his career at the age of 28. In 1972, the Braves had acquired McLain from the Oakland Athletics in a straight-up swap for first baseman Orlando Cepeda.
McLain won the American League Cy Young Award in 1968 and 1969.
Denny McLain averaged 23 wins and 290 innings per season for the Detroit Tigers from 1966-1969.
1978: The Detroit Tigers released Vern Ruhle.
1986: Major League Baseball's Rules Committee votes to change the designated hitter rule for the World Series, allowing a DH to be used in all games played in the American League club's home park, but not in the National League's. Since 1976, the DH had been used in all games in even years.
1989: Sports Illustrated publishes a story about Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose's gambling activities. Rose will eventually agree to a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball as part of an agreement with Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1989: The Detroit Tigers released Dwayne Murphy.
1995: The National Labor Relations Board files for an injunction to restore previous work rules to the game, as part of the settlment of the 1994 strike.
1996: The Detroit Tigers released Ricky Trlicek.
1997: The Detroit Tigers released Jose Bautista.
2003: The Detroit Tigers released Bill Haselman.
2004: The Philadelphia Phillies purchased Pablo Ozuna from the Detroit Tigers.
2006: Two days after minor league umpires said they intend to strike, management's lawyer denies that unfair labor practices have been committed.
2007: The Detroit Tigers released Brandon Watson.
2012: The group led by former NBA star Magic Johnson and executive Stan Kasten emerges as the winner of the bidding process to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers from owner Frank McCourt under supervision of a bankruptcy court judge. The winning bid is estimated at $2 billion, the highest amount ever paid for a North American professional sports franchise; an additional payment of $150 million will secure the land around Dodger Stadium that McCourt originally wanted to keep for himself. The huge prize tag will allow McCourt to make hundreds of millions in profit, even after paying back the loans he took out to purchase the team for $430 million in 2004, and the $131 million owed his wife Jamie as part of a divorce settlement. The purchase must now be submitted to the bankruptcy court by April 6th, and the sale completed by April 30th.
2014: The Detroit Tigers released Wil Ledezma.
2015: The Detroit Tigers released Luke Putkonen.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/daltomi01.shtml
Mike Dalton 1991.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jensewi01.shtml
Willie Jensen 1912.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Consolo
Billy Consolo coach 1979-1992, 1995.
from Baseball Reference
