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July 8 in Tigers and mlb history:

1902: John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck the Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles and officially signs to manage the Giants at $11,000 a year, although he has already secretly signed a contract several days earlier brought to Baltimore by Giants secretary Fred M. Knowles. McGraw says, "I wish to state that I shall not tamper with any of the Baltimore club's players." But conspiring with National League owners John Brush and Andrew Freedman, McGraw swings the sale of the Orioles their way, enabling them to release Orioles Dan McGann, Roger Bresnahan, Joe McGinnity and Jack Cronin for signing by the Giants. Joe Kelley and Cy Seymour go to Brush's Cincinnati Reds.

1907: Bombarded by pop bottles in Brooklyn, irate Cubs manager Frank Chance throws one back into the stands where it cuts a boy's leg. Chance is mobbed and leaves the park in an armored car with a police escort after the Cubs' 5 - 0 victory. Three-Finger Brown emerges with the shutout win.

1921: In Detroit, RF Harry Heilmann goes 3 for 4 and hits a prodigious home run that is measured at 610 feet. After 79 games "Slug" has 81 rbi and is batting .423
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1934: Max Bishop draws eight walks in a doubleheader, tying his own major-league record.

1934: The Tigers score 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Browns 5-4 and stay within a half game of the Yankees at the All-Star break.
First-year player-manager Mickey Cochrane has the Tigers poised to end a 25-year pennant drought.
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1934: Just four days after throwing a no-hitter, Satchel Paige finds himself on the short end of another no-hitter, thrown by Willie "Sug" Cornelius. However, Cornelius' Chicago American Giants are unable to score, and the game is a scoreless tie after nine innings. Paige's Pittsburgh Crawfords break open the no-hitter in the 10th inning, and Paige beats Cornelius, 3 - 0.

1935: The American League continues its All-Star Game reign, winning the third event, at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, 4 - 1. Jimmie Foxx is the hitting star with a homer and three RBI. The rule that no pitcher can throw more than three innings unless the game goes into extra innings will be instituted after Yankee Lefty Gomez pitches six outstanding innings in the Mid-Summer Classic. Charlie Gehringer goes 2-for-3 in the third annual All-Star Game, at Cleveland Municipal Stadium #ASG

1941: At the All-Star Game at Briggs Stadium, Ted Williams, hitting .405 at the break, homers off Chicago Cubs P Claude Passeau with two out and two on in the ninth inning to give the American League a dramatic 7 - 5 victory. Williams's 4 RBI are matched by National League SS Arky Vaughan, who hits homers in the seventh and eighth.
9th Annual MLB All-Star Game Souvenir Program - Briggs Stadium, Detroit.
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1946: A special meeting of clubs deals with Mexican League defections and attempts by players to gain new rights. Some results: $5,000 minimum salary, $25-per-week training-camp expenses, a fixed period for spring training, 25 days for post-season barnstorming, maximum pay cut of 25 percent. A pension fund aimed at providing $100 a month for retired 10-year players will be funded by World Series broadcast rights and net proceeds from All-Star Games. Each league will have a player rep to baseball councils. The first player reps named are Yankees P Johnny Murphy and Dodgers OF Dixie Walker.

1947: Clutch pinch hits by Luke Appling and Stan Spence lead the American League to a 2 - 1 win over the National League in the All-Star Game at Wrigley Field. Schoolboy Rowe pinch-hits for Johnny Sain, becoming the first player to appear for each side. Rowe pitched three innings for the American League in 1936. Spec Shea is the first winning rookie pitcher in All Star history.

1949: Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson, brought up from Jersey City three days earlier, are the first blacks to play for the New York Giants. Thompson, who was also the first black to play for the St. Louis Browns in 1947, starts at 2B, and Irvin pinch-hits in the 8th for Clint Hartung. Thompson broke into the majors 12 days after Larry Doby's American League debut with the Indians in 1947.

1951: The feud between Joe DiMaggio and Casey Stengel reaches a head in the 2nd inning against the Red Sox. Because of a misplay in the 1st, Stengel sends reserve Jackie Jensen out to CF to relieve the Yankee Clipper after he has already taken his position. The Red Sox clip the Yankees, 6 - 3.

1952: The National League defeats the American League 3 - 2 in the 1952 All-Star Game behind the pitching of Philadelphia's Curt Simmons and Cub Bob Rush in Philadelphia. The game is ended after five innings because of rain. Cub Hank Sauer's homer with Stan Musial aboard in the 4th proves to be the deciding run.

1953: 18-year-old rookie Al Kaline gets his first major league hit off Luis Aloma in a loss to the white sox.

1955 Earl Torgeson hits two 3-run home runs, including a walk-off shot off Athletics pitcher Johnny Sain in the 11th inning.
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1955: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Coleman Sr. as a free agent.

1956: The Giants connect for a team-record seven home runs in a 11 - 1 home win over the Pirates. Willie Mays, Daryl Spencer and Wes Westrum each connect for 2. Hank Thompson, Westrum, and Spencer hit consecutive homers in the 4th inning.

1956: Boston's Ted Williams becomes the 12th player to drive in 1,500 runs when he hits a single in the second game of a doubleheader sweep against the Orioles.

1957: The owners decide to re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick to another 7-year term when his present contract is up in 1958.

1958: At Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, in a contest which features no extra-base hits (13 singles), the American League edges the Senior Circuit, 4 - 3, in the 1958 All-Star Game. The Yankees' Gil McDougald singles to score Boston's Frank Malzone with the deciding run.

1961: At Yankee Stadium, Whitey Ford tops the Red Sox, 8 - 5. Mickey Mantle hits a home run in the 4th, off Tracy Stallard, for his 10th roundtripper this year in support of Ford.

1962: With home runs in his first three at bats, 41-year-old Stan Musial of the Cardinals not only becomes the oldest player to hit three in a game but also ties the major-league record of four straight home runs, as the Cards whip the Mets, 15 - 1. His home run in the second game the day before won the game, 3 - 2.
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1966: In New York, the Senators win the opener, 7 - 6, then blow a four-run lead in the nitecap to lose, 7 - 5. Mickey Mantle is 5 for 8 in the doubleheader, including a homer in each game. The second homer, off Jim Hannan, is a 461-foot sky shot over the monuments into the CF bleachers. Mick follows with a sure double in the 5th but tears a hamstring muscle rounding first and will be sidelined for two weeks.

1972: The Detroit Tigers signed John Hiller as a free agent.
1972: The Tigers lose to the White Sox, as Detroit's John Hiller returns to the mound 18 months after suffering a heart attack. Hiller relieves starter Bill Slayback, and gives the Tigers 3 innings of 2 run 4 hit ball with a walk and 2 strikeouts. Hiller will pitch in 24 games and give the Tigers 44.1 innings. The following 2 seasons he will become dominant.

1979: Dan Petry makes his major league debut 7.1 innings of 3 run ball in a loss to the brewers.

1980: At Dodger Stadium, the 51st All-Star Game features J.R. Richard (10-4) and Steve Stone (12-3) as the starters, with Richard going just two innings because of various back and shoulder problems he's been having. The National League battles back to win its 9th consecutive Midsummer Classic, 4 - 2, pinning the loss on Dodger defector Tommy John. Reds outfielder Ken Griffey goes 2 for 3 with a solo home run to win the game's MVP Award.

1991: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later to the Cleveland Indians for Steve Cummings. The Detroit Tigers sent Eric Stone (minors) (July 8, 1991) to the Cleveland Indians to complete the trade.

1995: At Tiger Stadium, players on the Tigers and the Kansas City Royals wear throwback uniforms of the Detroit Stars and Kansas City Monarchs in the first annual salute to the Negro Leagues.

1997: The American League defeats the National by a score of 3 - 1 in the annual All-Star Game, played in Cleveland. Indians C Sandy Alomar Jr. hits a two-run home run and is named the game's Most Valuable Player. Alomar is the first hometown player to homer since Hank Aaron in Atlanta in 1972.

2000: The Tigers defeat the Brewers 4 - 2 in 15 innings. Eight Tigers pitchers strike out 20 Milwaukee batters in the game as Brewers set a new franchise mark.

2001: A librarian finds an 1823 reference to "baseball" marking the earliest known reference to the game.

2015: The Rolling Stones play Comerica Park.
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2016: The Detroit Tigers signed David Martinez as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/crumpro01.shtml
Roy Crumpler 1920.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/barfocl01.shtml
Clyde Barfoot 1926.

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Salty Parker 1936.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lerrin_LaGrow
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Lerrin LaGrow 1970, 1972-1975.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/younger02.shtml
Ernie Young 2003.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gerbemi01.shtml
Mike Gerber 2018.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harrijo05.shtml
Josh Harrison 2019.

Tigers players and managers who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/taylowi01.shtml
Wiley Taylor 1911.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Red_Rolfe
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/rolfere01.shtml
Red Rolfe manager 1949-1952.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Skeeter_Webb
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/webbsk01.shtml
Skeeter Webb 1945-1947.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Veryzer
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/veryzto01.shtml
Tom Veryzer 1973-1977.

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https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/you-make-the-call-5/
YOU MAKE THE CALL.
Totally Tigers

You Make the Call is a new segment where readers must make a decision.

Every week we will identify an issue that is going on with the Tigers. And it?s an issue that must be resolved by A.J. Hinch.

Readers must choose one decision from the 2 or 3 offered as the one you feel is the best way to address the issue.

As always, we ask readers to take some time to comment and explain their rationale. Please remember to keep your comments to the 4-sentence maximum rule.

Let?s kick this off!

The Tigers are in scramble mode now with their starting rotation. Given Turnbull?s setback, the team is getting short on bodies.

Casey Mize has begun his innings reduction and Tarik Skubal will be limited starting after the break. Wily Peralta, Matt Manning and Jose Urena are your other starters. When Boyd returns, that fills out the rotation with 3 starters and 2 openers.

But doesn?t something need to be done with Urena? He has been ineffective for weeks. So what do they do given all the info above? You make the call.

What would you do with Jose Urena?

1. Keep him as a starter.

2. Use him as an opener.

3. Move him to the bullpen.

VOTE
 
https://www.stitcher.com/show/locke...rangers-recap-and-throwback-thursday-85278423
Locked On Detroit Tigers Podcast: Another one! The Detroit Tigers cannot stop winning series and that's awesome. 36 minutes.

Kyle Gibson gets his first loss of the year and your Tigers have 40 wins on the year. Zach Short, Casey Mize, Gregory Soto, and much more! How long did it take you to guess our Throwback Thursday player?
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tarik-skubal-tough-luck-loss-vs-twins
'He's very tough': Skubal impresses vs. Twins.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2021/7...inal-score-game-recap-tarik-skubal-eric-haase
Twins 5 - Tigers 3: The squander monster bites back in Minnesota.
The Tigers had every chance to win this one, but fumbled them all away.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...359#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=633359
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...fense-costs-tigers-5-3-loss-twins/7900564002/
Tigers' double-play defense has a costly relapse, spoils Skubal's night.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...roit-tigers-score-minnesota-twins/7910785002/
Replays ruin Detroit Tigers' series opener in 5-3 loss to Minnesota Twins.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2021/0...art-crumbles-as-tigers-fall-to-twins-5-3.html
Tarik Skubal?s perfect start crumbles as Tigers fall to Twins, 5-3.
Mlive
 
July 9 in Tigers and mlb history:

1902: The A's Rube Waddell and Boston's Bill Dinneen battle for 16 innings before the visiting Philadelphians push across two runs in the 17th to win, 4 - 2.

1904: The Giants' Iron Joe McGinnity wins two today, both in relief. In the opener Joe takes over for Christy Mathewson in the 8th with the Giants ahead, 2 - 1. The Cards tie it in the 8th, but New York scores three in the 9th to win, 5 - 3. It's d?j? vu in the nitecap, as McGinnity relieves Hooks Wiltse and the Giants score two in the 9th to win, 5 - 2. McGinnity's record is now 22-2.

1912: Christy Mathewson tops Three-Finger Brown, 5 - 2, despite allowing 11 hits and not striking out one Chicago batter.

1927: The Tigers pound the Yankees 14-4 at Navin Field (Tiger Stadium). It will be the worst loss of the Yankees' immortal 1927 season. Johnny Neun goes 5-for-5 with 5 stolen bases. Breaks Ty Cobb's franchise record for stolen bases in a game. Remains the only player in major league history to get 5 hits and 5 stolen bases in one game.
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1929: Cardinals OF Chick Hafey, with eight straight hits in his two previous games, gets two more before the Phils' "Fidgety Phil" Collins stops him. His 10-for-10 streak ties the National League record. The Cards win 7 - 4.

1937: The Detroit Tigers selected Charlie Gelbert off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds.

1937: Joe DiMaggio hits for the cycle as he delivers two home runs, a triple, a double and a single helping the Yankees maul the Senators, 16 - 2. The "Yankee Clipper" will accomplish this feat only once again, in 1948.

1938: Hank Greenberg hits 2 home runs against the White Sox to reach 25 on the season. He will chase Babe Ruth's record of 60 but finish with 58, which remains a franchise record. #Legends
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1940: At the 1940 All-Star Game in Sportsman's Park, five National League hurlers combine to throw the first shutout in All-Star history. Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Whit Wyatt, Larry French and Carl Hubbell three-hit the junior circuit, 4 - 0, with the help of Max West's three-run homer.

1946: With seven Red Sox teammates on the American League squad, Ted Williams stages a power show with two homers, two singles, a walk, 4 runs scored, and 4 RBI to lead the AL to a 12 - 0 laugher over the National League at Fenway Park. The highlight of the 1946 All-Star Game is Williams's home run off a Rip Sewell blooper pitch.

1948: At Boston, Johnny Sain becomes the National League's first 11-game winner, beating Robin Roberts and the Phils, 13 - 2.

1951: At a joint meeting between players and owners, agreement is reached on night curfews and the retention of the reserve clause.

1951: Harry Heilmann dies in Southfield, Michigan, at age 56. He will be inducted into the Hall of Fame the following year.
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1951: The Detroit Times hosts a 50th birthday party for the Tigers at the Masonic Temple.

1953: At Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phillies reliever Bob Miller replaces Robin Roberts ending the starter's consecutive complete game streak at 28. The future Hall of Famer (class of 1976) had finished every game he started since beating the Cardinals last season on August 28th.

1955: Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-5, and Bob Turley tosses a two-hitter in a 4 - 0 win over Washington.

1956: The BBWAA, by a narrow margin of 14-12, votes to establish the Cy Young Award to honor the major leagues' most outstanding pitcher. Commissioner Ford Frick initiated the idea because he felt hurlers were not recognized in the MVP voting, but ironically the first recipient of the Cy Young Award, Dodger Don Newcombe, will also win the Most Valuable Player Award.

1957: At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, the American League nips the National League 6 - 5 in the 24th All-Star Game. Both teams score 3 in the 9th inning, but Minnie Minoso's running catch with the bases loaded chokes off the NL's last-half rally.

1958: On Capitol Hill, Casey Stengel and Mickey Mantle appear in front of the Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee which is investigating the baseball monopoly power in regards to sport's antitrust exemption.
After 'The Old Perfessor' gives 45 minutes of rambling and confusing testimony, Senator Estes Kefauver laughs when Mickey Mantle answers his inquiry about the topic with, "My views are just about the same as Casey's."

1959: ML baseball announces that the 1960 season will open one week later than this year in hopes of getting better weather.

1961: The Tigers take over first place with a doubleheader sweep of the Angels. Frank Lary's 13th victory in the opener, a 1 - 0 three-hitter, is followed by Jim Bunning's 6 - 3 win in the nitecap.
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1961: At Los Angeles, Frank Robinson hits a pair of homers, a double and a single to drive in seven runs and the Reds coast over the Dodgers, 14 - 3.

1962: At a meeting held in conjunction with the All-Star Game - First Game, the ML players request a reduced schedule for the 1963 season. They also vote unanimously to continue playing two All-Star Games each year.

1963: Willie Mays is held to a single, but dominates a 5 - 3 National League win in the All-Star Game. He also walks, steals twice, scores twice, bats in a pair, and makes a great catch. It is Stan Musial's 24th All-Star appearance, a record. Musial's teammates comprise the starting infield for the NL.

1968: Appropriately, pitching dominates the All-Star Game in the first All-Star Game played indoors. Willie Mays, playing in place of the injured Pete Rose, tallies an unearned run in the first inning against American League starter Luis Tiant to complete the scoring for the day - the first All-Star effort to end 1 - 0. Don Drysdale, Juan Marichal, Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver, Ron Reed and Jerry Koosman hold the American League to three hits.

1970: Dalton Jones of the Tigers loses a grand slam against the Red Sox when he passes teammate Don Wert on the base paths. Jones pinch hits for Jim Price and belts a 2-2 pitch from Vicente Romo into the RF upper deck for a grand slam. However, he passes Wert between first and second and is called out, ending up with a 3-RBI single.
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1972: The Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 batters, including an American League-record 8 in a row and 3 on nine pitches in the 2nd inning, as he stops the Red Sox on one hit. Carl Yastrzemski's one-out single in the 1st is the only safety: Ryan then racks up his eight K's and retires the last 26 consecutive batters. Sonny Siebert loses the 3 - 0 battle. For Ryan, he is the third pitcher to twice fan the side on nine pitches.

1973: In a record-setting walkathon between the Reds and Expos, 25 bases on balls are handed out as Montreal strolls to an 11 - 6 win. Well off the American League's two-team mark of 30, this tops the National League record of 23, last reached on July 7, 1911. Six Montreal pitchers walk 16, one short of the record for an NL team, while Reds pitchers Clay Carroll and Tom Hall walk 9. Hal King pinch hits a grand slam for the Reds in the 6th inning, his second pinch dinger in nine days.

1979: The fans elect three Red Sox to start in the American League outfield for the All-Star Game: Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice and Fred Lynn.

1984: Heading into All-Star Break, the Tigers are 57-27: 7 games ahead of the Blue Jays in the AL East. The Tigers started 35-5 and then went 22-22.

1986: The Detroit Tigers traded Dave LaPoint to the San Diego Padres for Mark Thurmond.

1987: Mike Schmidt hits his 513th career home run off Atlanta's Zane Smith to move past Eddie Mathews and Ernie Banks into 10th place on the all-time list, but the Phillies lose to the Braves, 11 - 6.

1988: Nolan Ryan wins his 100th game as an Astro, 6 - 3 over the Mets, and becomes the 7th pitcher in major league history to win 100 for two different clubs. Ryan won 138 games for the California Angels in the 1970s.

1991: Cal Ripken Jr.'s 3-run home run lifts the American League to a 4 - 2 win over the National League in the annual All-Star Game. Andre Dawson homers for the NLers who lose for the 4th straight year. Ripken, who also won the pre-All-Star Game Home Run Derby, is named the game's MVP.

1995: Kirk Gibson is safe at home after colliding with Pat Borders and the Tigers beat the royals 4 - 2.
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1996: The National League defeats the American League, 6 - 0, in the All-Star Game. Ken Caminiti and Mike Piazza homer for the winners. Piazza's homer goes into the upper deck and he also adds a RBI double. The game is the first All-Star contest in which no walks are issued by either team. Cal Ripken Jr. starts the game, despite suffering a broken nose when he accidentally catches a forearm from Chicago P Roberto Hernandez, who slipped on the tarp during the AL team photo shoot.

1998: Brewers owner Bud Selig, who served as acting commissioner for nearly the last six years, is named by the owners to be baseball's ninth commissioner. To avoid conflicts of interest, his ownership of the Milwaukee franchise will be placed in trust.

2002: Despite chants of 'Let them play!' from the sellout crowd of 41,871 at Milwaukee's Miller Park, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig declares the 73rd All-Star Game a 7 - 7 tie after 11 innings. No player is selected to receive the first Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award, named in honor of the late Boston Red Sox legend who died five days ago.

2007: Tigers have three starters in the All-Star Game in San Francisco: Ivan Rodriguez, Placido Polanco, and Magglio Ordonez. Jim Leyland manages the AL squad and adds Baseball legend Al Kaline as his bench coach.
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2008: It was 10 years ago today that demolition began on Tiger Stadium in Detroit.

2008: Miguel Cabrera hits a 2-run walk-off home run and the Tigers beat the indians 8 - 6.
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2011: Derek Jeter becomes the 28th member of the 3000 hit club with a 5-for-5 day against the Tampa Bay Rays at New Yankee Stadium. The second of the 5 hits, a homer off David Price in the 3rd inning, gets him to the milestone. He then adds two singles and a double as the Yankees defeat the Rays, 5 - 4.

2012: Prince Fielder becomes the first Tiger to win the Home Run Derby.
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2013: Miguel Cabrera sets a franchise record with his 29th home run before the All-Star break, the 350th of his career in a loss the the white sox. Hank Greenberg hit 58 home runs during the 1938 season, but had 22 home runs before the All-Star Game on July 6 of that year.

2015: The Rolling Stones play Comerica Park.
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2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Alex Presley as a free agent.

2018: The Detroit Tigers released Junichi Tazawa.

2019: The American League defeats the National League, 4 - 3, in the 2019 All-Star Game to record its 7th straight win in the Midsummer Classic. Each team hits a solo homer, by Charlie Blackmon for the NL and Joey Gallo for the AL, but it is pitching that dominates the show, as reflected by Shane Bieber who is named winner of the Ted Williams Award as the game's MVP after striking out all three batters he faces in his inning of work.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hollica01.shtml
Carl Holling 1921-1922.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shevlji01.shtml
Jimmy Shevlin 1930.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/myattgl01.shtml
Glenn Myatt 1936.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ned_Harris
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harrine01.shtml
Ned Harris 1941-1943, 1946.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bud_Black_(blackbu01)
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/blackbu01.shtml
Bud Black 1952, 1955-1956.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Coot_Veal
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/vealco01.shtml
Coot Veal 1958-1960, 1963.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Harry_Heilmann
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heilmha01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/harry-heilmann/
Harry Heilmann 1914, 1916-1929.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Don_Lenhardt
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lenhado01.shtml
Don Lenhardt 1952.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kingch01.shtml
Chick King 1954-1956.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-to-host-summer-baseball-bash
Former Tigers set to appear at Summer Bash.
Tigers official site

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-game-minnesota-twins-summer-bash/7908596002/
Detroit Tigers planning mid-July party, with Jim Leyland and Mickey Lolich in attendance.
Freep

Gates will open at 3:30 p.m., an hour earlier than usual, for pregame autographs as well as pregame batting practice for the current Tigers. In addition to the former players listed above, Tigers alumni signing autographs on the Comerica Park concourse include 1968 World Series champions Mickey Lolich, Tom Matchick and Jon Warden; 1979 American League All-Star Steve Kemp; Tigers AL championship manager Jim Leyland, 2006 AL champion Craig Monroe and 2012 AL champions Phil Coke, Andy Dirks and Doug Fister. Several alumni will also participate in a pregame question-and-answer session with fans.
 
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