June 16 in Tigers and mlb history:
1909: Jim Thorpe makes his baseball pitching debut for the Rocky Mount Railroaders (Eastern Carolina League) with a 4 - 2 win over the Raleigh Red Birds. It is the professional play in this year that will later cause him to lose his Olympic gold medals won in the 1912 Olympics (thus violating the amateur status rules). In 1983, thirty years after his death, his medals will be restored.
1925: The Detroit Tigers signed Ownie Carroll as an amateur free agent.
1938: At Sportsman's Park, the St. Louis Browns walk Red Sox star Jimmie Foxx all six times he comes to bat. The Browns' decision to pitch carefully to Foxx does not prevent the Red Sox from winning the game, 12 - 8. Being intentionally walked six times in a nine-inning game, Foxx sets an American League record and matches the mark set by Walt Wilmot in the National League in 1891.
1946: The Detroit Tigers released Bob Hall.
1950: Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off the Indians' Marino Pieretti, as the Yanks win, 8 - 2. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits.
1958: Frank Lary pitches his third straight shutout, beating the Yankees' Duke Maas, 1 - 0. Al Kaline throws out Maas at the plate and hits his 7th home run to extend his hitting streak to 18 games.
1962: An injured Mickey Mantle returns after a one-month layoff and hits a dramatic three-run pinch home run in the top of the 8th inning. Although Mantle's blast gives the Yankees a 9 - 7 lead, Cleveland comes back to score a run in the bottom of the 8th and wins the game in the 9th, 10 - 9, on a two-run homer by Jerry Kindall.
1962: The Detroit Tigers signed John Hiller as an amateur free agent.
1965: Willie Horton hits a single, double, and a home run, driving in 5, in the Tigers' 9-4 win over red sox.
1968: After being held to one hit through 7 innings, the Tigers score 5 in the top of the 8th, including a 2-run double by Jim Northrup, to beat the White Sox 6-1.
1974: Mickey Lolich pitches CG 170 pitch 11 innings on Father's Day. Tigers win on an Aurelio Rodriguez walk-off single 3 - 2.
1976: Mark Fidrych pitches his 6th straight complete game as Tigers beat the royals 4 - 3.
1978: Tom Seaver pitches the only no-hitter of his brilliant career. Seaver strikes out three and walks three as the Cincinnati Reds defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 - 0, at Riverfront Stadium. Seaver had barely misas Tigersed pitching no-hitters on three previous occasions, losing the bid each time in the 9th inning.
1984: Tigers 6 - Brewers 0. Juan Berenguer pitches a 5-hit shutout.
1989: The San Francisco Giants traded Tracy Jones to the Detroit Tigers for Pat Sheridan.
1993: Ken Griffey, Jr. of the Seattle Mariners hits his 100th career home run in Seattle's 6 - 1 victory over Kansas City to become the fourth-youngest to hit the century mark. Only Mel Ott, Eddie Mathews and Tony Conigliaro did it faster than the 23-year-old Griffey.
1996: Legendary broadcaster Mel Allen dies at the age of 83. In 1939, Allen started doing play-by-play for both the New York Yankees and New York Giants, and later narrated the long-running television show, This Week in Baseball. In 1978, Allen received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence.
2005: The Detroit Tigers released and then signed as a free agent Nate Cornejo.
2006: The Detroit Tigers released Rhiner Cruz.
2014: Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, winner of eight National League batting titles, passes away from cancer of the salivary gland at 54. He spent his entire 20-season major league career with the San Diego Padres and is the only player to have been a member of their two World Series teams, in 1984 and 1998.
2015: J.D. Martinez hits three homers and drives in 6 runs in Detroit's 12 - 4 win over the Yankees. Martinez victimizes Masahiro Tanaka twice and adds the third off Danny Burawa.
2016: Victor Martinez connects for three homers to lead the Tigers to a 10 - 4 win over the Royals. The Tigers hit six homers in all, with Nick Castellanos, James McCann and Miguel Cabrera adding the other long balls. However, it's not all good news for Detroit as OF J.D. Martinez breaks his elbow running into the fence while chasing a ball in the right-field corner and will be out for a long stretch.
2017: Tigers score 5 runs in the 4th and 5 more in the 5th, the first time since 2008 they score 5 runs in consecutive innings and beat the rays 13 - 4.
2018: Nicholas Castellanos drives in 5 with a pair of homers and Tigers beat White Sox 7 - 5.
Tigers players, coaches, and scouts birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wish_Egan
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/eganwi01.shtml
Wish Egan 1902, scout 1908-1950.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rowanja01.shtml
Jack Rowan 1906.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/speerki01.shtml
Kid Speer 1909.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kirkeja01.shtml
Jay Kirke 1910.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ron_LeFlore
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lefloro01.shtml
Ron LeFlore 1974-1979.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gomezch02.shtml
Chris Gomez 1993-1996.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hernafe01.shtml
Fernando Hernandez 1997.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wally_Joyner
Wally Joyner coach 2014-2016.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Steve_Partenheimer
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/partest01.shtml
Steve Partenheimer 1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shellhu01.shtml
Hugh Shelley 1935.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stuarma01.shtml
Marlin Stuart 1949-1952.
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