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September 26 in Tigers and mlb history:
1911: At Shibe Park, the A's clinch their second straight American League pennant, defeating the Tigers, 11 - 5. Frank Baker leads the offense with a homer and two doubles. Detroit, which led the A's by 12 games in May, will finish 2nd, 13 1/2 games back.
1916: Washington manager Clark Griffith excuses several regulars for the remaining games of the season so he can use some new players. Included in the excused is 25-game winner Walter Johnson. In a league-leading 371 innings pitched, he did not give up a home run, an all-time record.
1926: In his final day in a Tiger uniform, Ty Cobb watches his replacement in centerfield gets 6 hits in a twin bill with the Red Sox to become the new batting champ as Heinie Manush edges Babe Ruth, .378 to .372, for the batting title.
1926: At Navin Field Bob Fothergill hits for the cycle against Boston.
1948: at Briggs Stadium: An afternoon contest with Cleveland attracts 57,588, the greatest turnout ever for a single day game in Detroit.
1955: The Red Sox beat the Yankees, 8 - 1, as Ted Williams goes 1 for 2. Williams finishes the season at .356, well ahead of Al Kaline's .340, but does not have enough at bats to win the batting title. The same thing happened in 1954. Williams was walked 136 times in 1954 and 71 times (an American League-leading 17 were intentional) this year.
A rule change will be made to recognize plate appearances, not times at bat, to determine the batting champion.
1961: In New York's 159th game, Roger Maris rips a Jack Fisher fastball into the right field seats at Yankee Stadium for his 60th home run. New York beats Baltimore, 3 - 2. There are fewer than 8,000 fans on hand to view this historic event.
1967: Cleveland's Luis Tiant beats the Red Sox, 6 - 3, despite Carl Yastrzemski's 43rd home run of the season. The Twins top the Angels, 7 - 3, behind two monster home runs by Harmon Killebrew, his 42nd and 43rd of the season. Mickey Lolich blanks the Yanks, 1 - 0, for Detroit to tighten the pennant race. The Twins (91-68) lead with Chicago (89-68) and the idle Red Sox (90-69) a game back, and Detroit (89-69) one and a half back.
1971: Ernie Banks gets his 2,583rd hit, a 1st-inning single off the Phils' Ken Reynolds, but the Cubs lose, 5 - 1. It is the last hit of Banks's 19-year major league career.
1971: Jim Palmer becomes the fourth member of the Orioles' pitching staff to notch his 20th victory, shutting out the host Indians, 5 - 0. Only one other team in major league history (the 1920 White Sox) boasted four 20-game winners.
1971: Willie Mays hits his 646th and last home run as a member of the San Francisco Giants. It comes off Steve Blateric in the 6th inning of the Giants' 12 - 5 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium.
2007: Michael Young collects 200 hits for the 5th year in a row, matching the record held by Charlie Gehringer for a middle infielder.
2012: The Tigers beat the Royals, 5 - 4, and when the White Sox lose to Cleveland, 6 - 4, they take sole possession of first place in the AL Central for the first time since July 24th. In the 5th inning, Alex Gordon robs Detroit's Miguel Cabrera of a home run by catching a ball over the left field fence; the catch may turn out to be costly, as Cabrera is putting in the most serious bid for a Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski's 1967 feat.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sullijo05.shtml
Joe Sullivan 1935-1936.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/streuwa01.shtml
Walt Streuli 1954-1956.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcraeno01.shtml
Norm McRae 1969-1970.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stewale01.shtml
Lefty Stewart 1921.
from baseball reference
1911: At Shibe Park, the A's clinch their second straight American League pennant, defeating the Tigers, 11 - 5. Frank Baker leads the offense with a homer and two doubles. Detroit, which led the A's by 12 games in May, will finish 2nd, 13 1/2 games back.
1916: Washington manager Clark Griffith excuses several regulars for the remaining games of the season so he can use some new players. Included in the excused is 25-game winner Walter Johnson. In a league-leading 371 innings pitched, he did not give up a home run, an all-time record.
1926: In his final day in a Tiger uniform, Ty Cobb watches his replacement in centerfield gets 6 hits in a twin bill with the Red Sox to become the new batting champ as Heinie Manush edges Babe Ruth, .378 to .372, for the batting title.
1926: At Navin Field Bob Fothergill hits for the cycle against Boston.
1948: at Briggs Stadium: An afternoon contest with Cleveland attracts 57,588, the greatest turnout ever for a single day game in Detroit.
1955: The Red Sox beat the Yankees, 8 - 1, as Ted Williams goes 1 for 2. Williams finishes the season at .356, well ahead of Al Kaline's .340, but does not have enough at bats to win the batting title. The same thing happened in 1954. Williams was walked 136 times in 1954 and 71 times (an American League-leading 17 were intentional) this year.
A rule change will be made to recognize plate appearances, not times at bat, to determine the batting champion.
1961: In New York's 159th game, Roger Maris rips a Jack Fisher fastball into the right field seats at Yankee Stadium for his 60th home run. New York beats Baltimore, 3 - 2. There are fewer than 8,000 fans on hand to view this historic event.
1967: Cleveland's Luis Tiant beats the Red Sox, 6 - 3, despite Carl Yastrzemski's 43rd home run of the season. The Twins top the Angels, 7 - 3, behind two monster home runs by Harmon Killebrew, his 42nd and 43rd of the season. Mickey Lolich blanks the Yanks, 1 - 0, for Detroit to tighten the pennant race. The Twins (91-68) lead with Chicago (89-68) and the idle Red Sox (90-69) a game back, and Detroit (89-69) one and a half back.
1971: Ernie Banks gets his 2,583rd hit, a 1st-inning single off the Phils' Ken Reynolds, but the Cubs lose, 5 - 1. It is the last hit of Banks's 19-year major league career.
1971: Jim Palmer becomes the fourth member of the Orioles' pitching staff to notch his 20th victory, shutting out the host Indians, 5 - 0. Only one other team in major league history (the 1920 White Sox) boasted four 20-game winners.
1971: Willie Mays hits his 646th and last home run as a member of the San Francisco Giants. It comes off Steve Blateric in the 6th inning of the Giants' 12 - 5 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium.
2007: Michael Young collects 200 hits for the 5th year in a row, matching the record held by Charlie Gehringer for a middle infielder.
2012: The Tigers beat the Royals, 5 - 4, and when the White Sox lose to Cleveland, 6 - 4, they take sole possession of first place in the AL Central for the first time since July 24th. In the 5th inning, Alex Gordon robs Detroit's Miguel Cabrera of a home run by catching a ball over the left field fence; the catch may turn out to be costly, as Cabrera is putting in the most serious bid for a Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski's 1967 feat.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sullijo05.shtml
Joe Sullivan 1935-1936.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/streuwa01.shtml
Walt Streuli 1954-1956.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcraeno01.shtml
Norm McRae 1969-1970.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stewale01.shtml
Lefty Stewart 1921.
from baseball reference
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