July 8 in Tigers and mlb history:
1902: John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck the Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles and officially signs to manage the Giants at $11,000 a year, although he has already secretly signed a contract several days earlier brought to Baltimore by Giants secretary Fred M. Knowles. McGraw says, "I wish to state that I shall not tamper with any of the Baltimore club's players." But conspiring with National League owners John Brush and Andrew Freedman, McGraw swings the sale of the Orioles their way, enabling them to release Orioles Dan McGann, Roger Bresnahan, Joe McGinnity and Jack Cronin for signing by the Giants. Joe Kelley and Cy Seymour go to Brush's Cincinnati Reds.
1907: Bombarded by pop bottles in Brooklyn, irate Cubs manager Frank Chance throws one back into the stands where it cuts a boy's leg. Chance is mobbed and leaves the park in an armored car with a police escort after the Cubs' 5 - 0 victory. Three-Finger Brown emerges with the shutout win.
1921: In Detroit, RF Harry Heilmann goes 3 for 4 and hits a prodigious home run that is measured at 610 feet. After 79 games "Slug" has 81 rbi and is batting .423
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1934: Max Bishop draws eight walks in a doubleheader, tying his own major-league record.
1934: The Tigers score 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Browns 5-4 and stay within a half game of the Yankees at the All-Star break.
First-year player-manager Mickey Cochrane has the Tigers poised to end a 25-year pennant drought
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1934: Just four days after throwing a no-hitter, Satchel Paige finds himself on the short end of another no-hitter, thrown by Willie "Sug" Cornelius. However, Cornelius' Chicago American Giants are unable to score, and the game is a scoreless tie after nine innings. Paige's Pittsburgh Crawfords break open the no-hitter in the 10th inning, and Paige beats Cornelius, 3 - 0.
1935: The American League continues its All-Star Game reign, winning the third event, at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, 4 - 1. Jimmie Foxx is the hitting star with a homer and three RBI. The rule that no pitcher can throw more than three innings unless the game goes into extra innings will be instituted after Yankee Lefty Gomez pitches six outstanding innings in the Mid-Summer Classic. Charlie Gehringer goes 2-for-3 in the third annual All-Star Game, at Cleveland Municipal Stadium #ASG
1941: At the All-Star Game at Briggs Stadium, Ted Williams, hitting .405 at the break, homers off Chicago Cubs P Claude Passeau with two out and two on in the ninth inning to give the American League a dramatic 7 - 5 victory. Williams's 4 RBI are matched by National League SS Arky Vaughan, who hits homers in the seventh and eighth.
9th Annual MLB All-Star Game Souvenir Program - Briggs Stadium, Detroit.
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1946: A special meeting of clubs deals with Mexican League defections and attempts by players to gain new rights. Some results: $5,000 minimum salary, $25-per-week training-camp expenses, a fixed period for spring training, 25 days for post-season barnstorming, maximum pay cut of 25 percent. A pension fund aimed at providing $100 a month for retired 10-year players will be funded by World Series broadcast rights and net proceeds from All-Star Games. Each league will have a player rep to baseball councils. The first player reps named are Yankees P Johnny Murphy and Dodgers OF Dixie Walker.
1947: Clutch pinch hits by Luke Appling and Stan Spence lead the American League to a 2 - 1 win over the National League in the All-Star Game at Wrigley Field. Schoolboy Rowe pinch-hits for Johnny Sain, becoming the first player to appear for each side. Rowe pitched three innings for the American League in 1936. Spec Shea is the first winning rookie pitcher in All Star history.
1949: Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson, brought up from Jersey City three days earlier, are the first blacks to play for the New York Giants. Thompson, who was also the first black to play for the St. Louis Browns in 1947, starts at 2B, and Irvin pinch-hits in the 8th for Clint Hartung. Thompson broke into the majors 12 days after Larry Doby's American League debut with the Indians in 1947.
1951: The feud between Joe DiMaggio and Casey Stengel reaches a head in the 2nd inning against the Red Sox. Because of a misplay in the 1st, Stengel sends reserve Jackie Jensen out to CF to relieve the Yankee Clipper after he has already taken his position. The Red Sox clip the Yankees, 6 - 3.
1952: The National League defeats the American League 3 - 2 in the 1952 All-Star Game behind the pitching of Philadelphia's Curt Simmons and Cub Bob Rush in Philadelphia. The game is ended after five innings because of rain. Cub Hank Sauer's homer with Stan Musial aboard in the 4th proves to be the deciding run.
1953: 18-year-old rookie Al Kaline gets his first major league hit off Luis Aloma in a loss to the white sox.
1955: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Coleman Sr. as a free agent.
1956: Boston's Ted Williams becomes the 12th player to drive in 1,500 runs when he hits a single in the second game of a doubleheader sweep against the Orioles.
1957: The owners decide to re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick to another 7-year term when his present contract is up in 1958.
1958: At Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, in a contest which features no extra-base hits (13 singles), the American League edges the Senior Circuit, 4 - 3, in the 1958 All-Star Game. The Yankees' Gil McDougald singles to score Boston's Frank Malzone with the deciding run.
1961: At Yankee Stadium, Whitey Ford tops the Red Sox, 8 - 5. Mickey Mantle hits a home run in the 4th, off Tracy Stallard, for his 10th roundtripper this year in support of Ford.
1962: With home runs in his first three at bats, 41-year-old Stan Musial of the Cardinals not only becomes the oldest player to hit three in a game but also ties the major-league record of four straight home runs, as the Cards whip the Mets, 15 - 1. His home run in the second game the day before won the game, 3 - 2.
1966: In New York, the Senators win the opener, 7 - 6, then blow a four-run lead in the nitecap to lose, 7 - 5. Mickey Mantle is 5 for 8 in the doubleheader, including a homer in each game. The second homer, off Jim Hannan, is a 461-foot sky shot over the monuments into the CF bleachers. Mick follows with a sure double in the 5th but tears a hamstring muscle rounding first and will be sidelined for two weeks.
1972: The Detroit Tigers signed John Hiller as a free agent.
1972: The Tigers lose to the White Sox, as Detroit's John Hiller returns to the mound 18 months after suffering a heart attack. Hiller relieves starter Bill Slayback, and gives the Tigers 3 innings of 2 run 4 hit ball with a walk and 2 strikeouts. Hiller will pitch in 24 games and give the Tigers 44.1 innings. The following 2 seasons he will become dominant.
1979: Dan Petry makes his major league debut 7.1 innings of 3 run ball in a loss to the brewers.
1980: At Dodger Stadium, the 51st All-Star Game features J.R. Richard (10-4) and Steve Stone (12-3) as the starters, with Richard going just two innings because of various back and shoulder problems he's been having. The National League battles back to win its 9th consecutive Midsummer Classic, 4 - 2, pinning the loss on Dodger defector Tommy John. Reds outfielder Ken Griffey goes 2 for 3 with a solo home run to win the game's MVP Award.
1991: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later to the Cleveland Indians for Steve Cummings. The Detroit Tigers sent Eric Stone (minors) (July 8, 1991) to the Cleveland Indians to complete the trade.
1995: At Tiger Stadium, players on the Tigers and the Kansas City Royals wear throwback uniforms of the Detroit Stars and Kansas City Monarchs in the first annual salute to the Negro Leagues.
1997: The American League defeats the National by a score of 3 - 1 in the annual All-Star Game, played in Cleveland. Indians C Sandy Alomar Jr. hits a two-run home run and is named the game's Most Valuable Player. Alomar is the first hometown player to homer since Hank Aaron in Atlanta in 1972.
2000: The Tigers defeat the Brewers 4 - 2 in 15 innings. Eight Tigers pitchers strike out 20 Milwaukee batters in the game as Brewers set a new franchise mark.
2001: A librarian finds an 1823 reference to "baseball" marking the earliest known reference to the game.
2015: The Rolling Stones play Comerica Park.
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2016: The Detroit Tigers signed David Martinez as a free agent.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Roy Crumpler 1920.
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Clyde Barfoot 1926.
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Salty Parker 1936.
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Lerrin LaGrow 1970, 1972-1975.
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Ernie Young 2003.
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Mike Gerber 2018.
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Josh Harrison 2019.
Tigers players and managers who passed away:
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Wiley Taylor 1911.
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Red Rolfe manager 1949-1952.
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Skeeter Webb 1945-1947.
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Tom Veryzer 1973-1977.
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