September 25 in Tigers and mlb history:
1907: Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner steals four bases, including second base, third, and home in the 2nd inning against the Giants. Not to be outdone, his teammate Fred Clarke also swipes four bases for the only time in his career.
1908: Detroit's Ed Summers pitches two complete-game wins over the A's, winning the opener, 7 - 2. The second game is a 10-inning battle with another rookie, Biff Schlitzer, that ends 1 - 0 on a Claude Rossman drive for an inside-the-park home run. Summers allows just two hits. With the White Sox idle, the Tigers move to a half-game out of first.
1922: The Giants beat St. Louis, 5 - 4, in 10 innings, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant and the Giants' 10th in 41 years in the National League.
1932: Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in the last game of the season to finish two short of Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60. Foxx adds two singles but the A's lose, 2 - 1, to the Senators' Alvin Crowder. Crowder wins his 26th and 15th straight game, one short of the American League record held by Walter Johnson, Smoky Joe Wood and Lefty Grove. Foxx finishes with 169 RBIs while teammate Al Simmons ties for 2nd with 151.
1934: The Detroit Tigers signed Cy Perkins as a free agent.
1940: Bobo Newsom wins a clutch doubleheader for the Tigers, pitching 2 innings of relief in the opener against the White Sox, and going the distance in the nightcap for his 21st win.
1944: Going into the final Monday of the season, the Tigers hold a one-game lead over the Browns with the Yankees now out of the running. Russ Christopher of the A's beats the Tigers 2 - 1, to produce a tie for the lead.
1952: Hal Newhouser of the Tigers wins his 200th game. It is his last win for Detroit, who will release him in early 1953.
1955: Detroit Rightfielder Al Kaline becomes the youngest batting champ in history, as he takes the American League crown at age 20 with a .340 average. The future all-time great will also lead the league in hits with 200, and total bases with 321. Kaline will finish 2nd in the MVP vote to Yankees catcher Yogi Berra.
1967: In an afternoon game, the Angels top the leading Twins, 9 - 2 in Minnesota, to move the idle Red Sox into a first-place tie. Detroit loses, 2 - 0, to Yankee lefty Al Downing.
1968: In Mickey Mantle's last appearance at Yankee Stadium, he slices a two-out 1st-inning single off Cleveland's Luis Tiant, the only hit for the Yankees. Tiant tosses his 9th shutout of the year, tops in the American League, to win, 3 - 0. El Tiante's ERA drops to 1.60
1971: The Detroit Tigers signed Ed Glynn as an amateur free agent.
1971: With rookie C Tim Hosley hitting two homers and driving in five runs, the Tigers trip the Yankees, 10 - 7. Les Cain pitches six innings for the win. Cain finishes with a 10-9 record with 145 innings, but contends he is forced to pitch by Manager Billy Martin while he has a sore arm. Cain later claims that it did permanent damage to his arm and he sues the Tigers. In a landmark decision, the Michigan Bureau of Workman's Compensation will order the Tigers to pay Cain $111 a month for the rest of his life. A lump sum payment is later agreed upon.
1977: Detroit pounds out 18 hits against Boston's Reggie Cleveland, but they still lose 12 - 5.
1978: The Detroit Tigers released Charlie Spikes.
1989: Boston's Wade Boggs goes 4 for 5 in a 7 - 4 win over the Yankees to become the first player in major league history to achieve both 200 hits and 100 walks in four consecutive seasons. It is Boggs's 7th straight 200-hit season overall, extending his own modern major league record.
2012: The Atlanta Braves traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Jeff Baker. The Atlanta Braves sent Greg Ross (minors) (September 25, 2012) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harledi01.shtml
Dick Harley 1902.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Johnny_Sain
Johnny Sain pitching coach 1967-1969.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/putmaed01.shtml
Ed Putman 1979.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/butersa01.shtml
Sal Butera 1983.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wapnist01.shtml
Steve Wapnick 1990.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ryanky01.shtml
Kyle Ryan 2014-2017.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/holloke01.shtml
Ken Holloway 1922-1928.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ray_Hayworth
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/haywora01.shtml
Ray Hayworth 1926, 1929-1938.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/richano01.shtml
Nolen Richardson 1929, 1931-1932.
from baseball reference
