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July 28 in Tigers and mlb history:

1948 - Detroit's Dizzy Trout shuts out the Red Sox 13 - 0, to stop Boston's win streak at 13 games. Hoot Evers paces the Tigers 18-hit attack with four hits.

1949: Detroit pitcher Dizzy Trout hits a 9th-inning grand slam against the Senators to help the Tigers to a victory.

1951: Charlie Gehringer succeeds Billy Evans as General Manager of the Detroit Tigers. He will continue in this capacity for the Tigers into 1953.

1993: Detroit 3B Travis Fryman strokes five safeties as he hits for the cycle in the Tigers' 12 - 7 loss to the Yankees. He is the first Tiger to cycle in 43 years, when Hoot Evers and George Kell accomplished the feat.

1994: The Players Association executive board approves of August 12 as the date for a strike.

2001: The Twins get P Todd Jones from the Tigers in exchange for P Mark Redman.

2010: With the trading deadline approaching, a few clubs are making moves. The Tigers, reeling from a number of injuries, obtain 3B Jhonny Peralta from Cleveland for minor league P Giovanni Soto.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/woodbo01.shtml
Bob Wood 1904-1905.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/perryha01.shtml
Hank Perry 1912.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/glaisjo01.shtml
John Glaiser 1920.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/steinbe01.shtml
Ben Steiner 1947.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ted_Lepcio
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lepcite01.shtml?redir
Ted Lepcio 1959.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lu_Blue
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bluelu01.shtml?redir
Lu Blue 1921-1927.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Steve_Souchock
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/souchst01.shtml?redir
Steve Souchock 1951-1955.

from baseball reference
 
http://www.westofwoodward.com/2016/07/the-voice-of-turtle-episode-40-how.html
West Of Woodward Tigers Blog Podcast The Voice of the Turtle Episode 40: How sweep it is! 2 hours.

Topics in this week's episode include:
- SWEEP!
- The bullpen is... good?
- Miguel Cabrera might be heating up (finally).
- Road games are no longer a thing.
- What does the trade deadline do to this roster?
- Aroldis Chapman and his baggage are on the move.
- Chris Sale slices and dices his way into the limelight.
- Listener questions!
- What does Mike Aviles have to do to get DFA'd?
- Special guest Matt Kory decides who really should have won the 2013 World Series.

Contents:
2:26 - Rounding the Bases: forcing Al Avila's hand.
30:44 - Warming in the Pen: there's no place like home.
44:11 - High and Tight: Just give the Cubs the trophy now.
1:00:35 - Into the Mob Scene at Home: how many innings can Lucroy pitch?
1:25:33 - The 7th Inning Kvetch: Matthew Kory on the Dombrowski Regime.
 
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