June 19 in Tigers and mlb history:
1886: The Detroit Wolverines beat the Chicago White Stockings 1-0 in 13 innings.
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1903: Lou Gehrig is born in New York City. Gehrig will make his major league debut with the New York Yankees in 1923.
He will become the Yankees' everyday first baseman, replacing Wally Pipp and set a record for the longest consecutive games played streak while combining with Babe Ruth to form one of the greatest run-producing tandems of all time.
1927: Paul Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates ends his 23-game hitting streak, a day after his extra-base hit streak was stopped at 14 games to set a National League record. Waner, just in his second season, will lead the NL with a .380 batting average, 237 hits, and 131 RBI. His brother Lloyd will gather 223 hits for a .355 BA in his rookie year. The Waners pace the 1927 Pirates to a team BA of .305.
1938: Cincinnati Reds pitcher Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless innings to 21 2/3 against the Boston Bees. Vander Meer, coming off two straight no-hitters, sees the streak come to an end when he gives up a single to Debs Garms in the 4th inning.
1942: Paul Waner reaches the exclusive 3000 hit club with a single off Rip Sewell. Waner, playing for the Boston Braves, collects the milestone hit against his former team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, who win the game, 7 - 6, in 11 innings.
1949: Virgil Trucks and Fred Hutchinson both pitch shutouts over the Senators in a doubleheader, Tigers win 9-0 and 7-0.
1953: Al Kaline signs as an amatuer free agent with the Tigers and scout Ed Katalinas. In less than a week Kaline has his first Major League at bat, and the next 22 years is a great HOF career in Major League Baseball History.
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1955: Ted Williams, held hitless for three straight games, blasts a pair of towering home runs as the Red Sox overpower Cleveland, 11 - 8. The Associated Press reports: "Williams leaned into a fastball by rookie fireballer Herb Score for a 450-foot drive into the dead centerfield bleachers in the 5th inning to end a hitless string at ten official times at bat. In the 8th inning, he connected again for a 430-foot drive into the right field stands off the veteran Bob Feller."
1961: New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris hits a 9th-inning home run off Kansas City's Jim Archer, his 25th of the year, putting him seven games ahead of Babe Ruth's pace in 1927.
1961: Tigers sign catcher Bill Freehan from University of Michigan.
1963: Gates Brown of the Detroit Tigers becomes the eleventh player in American League history to hit a home run in his first at-bat in a loss to the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
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1965: Dick McAuliffe hits 2 home runs in the Tigers' 8-2 win over the kansas city athletics. McLain scatters 6 hits and strikes out 5 in a complete game.
1972: The United States Supreme Court rules against former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood, who had sued Major League Baseball over the reserve clause after being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. The ruling upholds baseball's antitrust exemption, which was originally granted in 1922.
1977: The Cleveland Indians fire Frank Robinson, the first black manager in major league history, and replace him with coach Jeff Torborg.
1977: Carl Yastrzemski (2), Bernie Carbo (2), and George Scott (1) of the Boston Red Sox hit five home runs in an 11 - 1 triumph over the New York Yankees at Fenway Park. The five home runs give the Red Sox a major league record 16 in three games. Boston hit six homers on June 17th and five on June 18th, also against the Yankees. The Yankees hit no homers in the three-game series.
1984: Tigers 7 - Yankees 6. With the Tigers trailing 4-3 in the 8th, Larry Herndon ties it with a bases-loaded single. Rusty Kuntz follows with a 2-run single. Yankees score 2 in the 9th but Willie Hernandez hangs on for his 12th save.
1989: The Detroit Tigers purchased Matt Sinatro from the Houston Astros.
1992: The Tigers beat the Blue Jays 14-10! Rob Deer hit his 19th home run of the season! Travis Fryman doubled, tripled and drove in 5 runs. Dan Gladden & Lou Whitaker both had 3 hits.
1994: The Detroit Tigers hit at least one home run in their 25th consecutive game when Mickey Tettleton goes deep against the Toronto Blue Jays.
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1995: The Detroit Tigers released Shawn Wooten.
2002: The Detroit Tigers traded Kris Keller to the Atlanta Braves for George Lombard.
2007: Brandon Inge's 3-run double gives the Tigers a 12-0 lead in the 4th inning, en route to a 15-1 romp in Washington. Sean Casey hits a 3-run home run and RBI double.
2009: Ann and Jessica Fidrych tend the mound at Comerica Park and throw out the first pitch, two months after the tragic death of their husband and father.
2009: Marcus Thames hits a pair of two-run home runs as Detroit beats Milwaukee, 10 - 4, in a rain-shortened game that ends with one out in the bottom of the 7th, after being delayed for more than two hours in the 4th. Zach Miner picks up the win in relief in the wild game in which video replay reviews deprive Dusty Ryan of an apparent home run in the 1st but grant one to Miguel Cabrera two innings later.
2012: The Detroit Tigers released Brad Eldred.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Eddie_Cicotte
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Ed Cicotte 1905.
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Jim Slaton 1978, 1986.
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Willis Roberts 1999.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Jones
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jonesto01.shtml
Tom Jones 1909-1910.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Prince_Oana
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oanapr01.shtml
Prince Oana 1943, 1945.
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