July 9 in Tigers and mlb history:
1902: The A's Rube Waddell and Boston's Bill Dinneen battle for 16 innings before the visiting Philadelphians push across two runs in the 17th to win, 4 - 2.
1904: The Giants' Iron Joe McGinnity wins two today, both in relief. In the opener Joe takes over for Christy Mathewson in the 8th with the Giants ahead, 2 - 1. The Cards tie it in the 8th, but New York scores three in the 9th to win, 5 - 3. It's d?j? vu in the nitecap, as McGinnity relieves Hooks Wiltse and the Giants score two in the 9th to win, 5 - 2. McGinnity's record is now 22-2.
1912: Christy Mathewson tops Three-Finger Brown, 5 - 2, despite allowing 11 hits and not striking out one Chicago batter.
1927: The Tigers pound the Yankees 14-4 at Navin Field (Tiger Stadium). It will be the worst loss of the Yankees' immortal 1927 season. Johnny Neun goes 5-for-5 with 5 stolen bases. Breaks Ty Cobb's franchise record for stolen bases in a game. Remains the only player in major league history to get 5 hits and 5 stolen bases in one game.
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1929: Cardinals OF Chick Hafey, with eight straight hits in his two previous games, gets two more before the Phils' "Fidgety Phil" Collins stops him. His 10-for-10 streak ties the National League record. The Cards win 7 - 4.
1937: The Detroit Tigers selected Charlie Gelbert off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds.
1937: Joe DiMaggio hits for the cycle as he delivers two home runs, a triple, a double and a single helping the Yankees maul the Senators, 16 - 2. The "Yankee Clipper" will accomplish this feat only once again, in 1948.
1938: Hank Greenberg hits 2 home runs against the White Sox to reach 25 on the season. He will chase Babe Ruth's record of 60 but finish with 58, which remains a franchise record. #Legends
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1940: At the 1940 All-Star Game in Sportsman's Park, five National League hurlers combine to throw the first shutout in All-Star history. Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Whit Wyatt, Larry French and Carl Hubbell three-hit the junior circuit, 4 - 0, with the help of Max West's three-run homer.
1946: With seven Red Sox teammates on the American League squad, Ted Williams stages a power show with two homers, two singles, a walk, 4 runs scored, and 4 RBI to lead the AL to a 12 - 0 laugher over the National League at Fenway Park. The highlight of the 1946 All-Star Game is Williams's home run off a Rip Sewell blooper pitch.
1948: At Boston, Johnny Sain becomes the National League's first 11-game winner, beating Robin Roberts and the Phils, 13 - 2.
1951: At a joint meeting between players and owners, agreement is reached on night curfews and the retention of the reserve clause.
1951: Harry Heilmann dies in Southfield, Michigan, at age 56. He will be inducted into the Hall of Fame the following year.
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1951: The Detroit Times hosts a 50th birthday party for the Tigers at the Masonic Temple.
1953: At Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phillies reliever Bob Miller replaces Robin Roberts ending the starter's consecutive complete game streak at 28. The future Hall of Famer (class of 1976) had finished every game he started since beating the Cardinals last season on August 28th.
1955: Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-5, and Bob Turley tosses a two-hitter in a 4 - 0 win over Washington.
1956: The BBWAA, by a narrow margin of 14-12, votes to establish the Cy Young Award to honor the major leagues' most outstanding pitcher. Commissioner Ford Frick initiated the idea because he felt hurlers were not recognized in the MVP voting, but ironically the first recipient of the Cy Young Award, Dodger Don Newcombe, will also win the Most Valuable Player Award.
1957: At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, the American League nips the National League 6 - 5 in the 24th All-Star Game. Both teams score 3 in the 9th inning, but Minnie Minoso's running catch with the bases loaded chokes off the NL's last-half rally.
1958: On Capitol Hill, Casey Stengel and Mickey Mantle appear in front of the Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee which is investigating the baseball monopoly power in regards to sport's antitrust exemption.
After 'The Old Perfessor' gives 45 minutes of rambling and confusing testimony, Senator Estes Kefauver laughs when Mickey Mantle answers his inquiry about the topic with, "My views are just about the same as Casey's."
1959: ML baseball announces that the 1960 season will open one week later than this year in hopes of getting better weather.
1961: The Tigers take over first place with a doubleheader sweep of the Angels. Frank Lary's 13th victory in the opener, a 1 - 0 three-hitter, is followed by Jim Bunning's 6 - 3 win in the nitecap.
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1961: At Los Angeles, Frank Robinson hits a pair of homers, a double and a single to drive in seven runs and the Reds coast over the Dodgers, 14 - 3.
1962: At a meeting held in conjunction with the All-Star Game - First Game, the ML players request a reduced schedule for the 1963 season. They also vote unanimously to continue playing two All-Star Games each year.
1963: Willie Mays is held to a single, but dominates a 5 - 3 National League win in the All-Star Game. He also walks, steals twice, scores twice, bats in a pair, and makes a great catch. It is Stan Musial's 24th All-Star appearance, a record. Musial's teammates comprise the starting infield for the NL.
1968: Appropriately, pitching dominates the All-Star Game in the first All-Star Game played indoors. Willie Mays, playing in place of the injured Pete Rose, tallies an unearned run in the first inning against American League starter Luis Tiant to complete the scoring for the day - the first All-Star effort to end 1 - 0. Don Drysdale, Juan Marichal, Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver, Ron Reed and Jerry Koosman hold the American League to three hits.
1970: Dalton Jones of the Tigers loses a grand slam against the Red Sox when he passes teammate Don Wert on the base paths. Jones pinch hits for Jim Price and belts a 2-2 pitch from Vicente Romo into the RF upper deck for a grand slam. However, he passes Wert between first and second and is called out, ending up with a 3-RBI single.
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1972: The Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 batters, including an American League-record 8 in a row and 3 on nine pitches in the 2nd inning, as he stops the Red Sox on one hit. Carl Yastrzemski's one-out single in the 1st is the only safety: Ryan then racks up his eight K's and retires the last 26 consecutive batters. Sonny Siebert loses the 3 - 0 battle. For Ryan, he is the third pitcher to twice fan the side on nine pitches.
1973: In a record-setting walkathon between the Reds and Expos, 25 bases on balls are handed out as Montreal strolls to an 11 - 6 win. Well off the American League's two-team mark of 30, this tops the National League record of 23, last reached on July 7, 1911. Six Montreal pitchers walk 16, one short of the record for an NL team, while Reds pitchers Clay Carroll and Tom Hall walk 9. Hal King pinch hits a grand slam for the Reds in the 6th inning, his second pinch dinger in nine days.
1979: The fans elect three Red Sox to start in the American League outfield for the All-Star Game: Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice and Fred Lynn.
1984: Heading into All-Star Break, the Tigers are 57-27: 7 games ahead of the Blue Jays in the AL East. The Tigers started 35-5 and then went 22-22.
1986: The Detroit Tigers traded Dave LaPoint to the San Diego Padres for Mark Thurmond.
1987: Mike Schmidt hits his 513th career home run off Atlanta's Zane Smith to move past Eddie Mathews and Ernie Banks into 10th place on the all-time list, but the Phillies lose to the Braves, 11 - 6.
1988: Nolan Ryan wins his 100th game as an Astro, 6 - 3 over the Mets, and becomes the 7th pitcher in major league history to win 100 for two different clubs. Ryan won 138 games for the California Angels in the 1970s.
1991: Cal Ripken Jr.'s 3-run home run lifts the American League to a 4 - 2 win over the National League in the annual All-Star Game. Andre Dawson homers for the NLers who lose for the 4th straight year. Ripken, who also won the pre-All-Star Game Home Run Derby, is named the game's MVP.
1995: Kirk Gibson is safe at home after colliding with Pat Borders and the Tigers beat the royals 4 - 2.
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1996: The National League defeats the American League, 6 - 0, in the All-Star Game. Ken Caminiti and Mike Piazza homer for the winners. Piazza's homer goes into the upper deck and he also adds a RBI double. The game is the first All-Star contest in which no walks are issued by either team. Cal Ripken Jr. starts the game, despite suffering a broken nose when he accidentally catches a forearm from Chicago P Roberto Hernandez, who slipped on the tarp during the AL team photo shoot.
1998: Brewers owner Bud Selig, who served as acting commissioner for nearly the last six years, is named by the owners to be baseball's ninth commissioner. To avoid conflicts of interest, his ownership of the Milwaukee franchise will be placed in trust.
2002: Despite chants of 'Let them play!' from the sellout crowd of 41,871 at Milwaukee's Miller Park, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig declares the 73rd All-Star Game a 7 - 7 tie after 11 innings. No player is selected to receive the first Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award, named in honor of the late Boston Red Sox legend who died five days ago.
2007: Tigers have three starters in the All-Star Game in San Francisco: Ivan Rodriguez, Placido Polanco, and Magglio Ordonez. Jim Leyland manages the AL squad and adds Baseball legend Al Kaline as his bench coach.
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2008: It was 10 years ago today that demolition began on Tiger Stadium in Detroit.
2008: Miguel Cabrera hits a 2-run walk-off home run and the Tigers beat the indians 8 - 6.
2011: Derek Jeter becomes the 28th member of the 3000 hit club with a 5-for-5 day against the Tampa Bay Rays at New Yankee Stadium. The second of the 5 hits, a homer off David Price in the 3rd inning, gets him to the milestone. He then adds two singles and a double as the Yankees defeat the Rays, 5 - 4.
2012: Prince Fielder becomes the first Tiger to win the Home Run Derby.
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2013: Miguel Cabrera sets a franchise record with his 29th home run before the All-Star break, the 350th of his career in a loss the the white sox. Hank Greenberg hit 58 home runs during the 1938 season, but had 22 home runs before the All-Star Game on July 6 of that year.
2015: The Rolling Stones play Comerica Park.
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2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Alex Presley as a free agent.
2018: The Detroit Tigers released Junichi Tazawa.
2019: The American League defeats the National League, 4 - 3, in the 2019 All-Star Game to record its 7th straight win in the Midsummer Classic. Each team hits a solo homer, by Charlie Blackmon for the NL and Joey Gallo for the AL, but it is pitching that dominates the show, as reflected by Shane Bieber who is named winner of the Ted Williams Award as the game's MVP after striking out all three batters he faces in his inning of work.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Carl Holling 1921-1922.
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Jimmy Shevlin 1930.
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Glenn Myatt 1936.
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Ned Harris 1941-1943, 1946.
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Bud Black 1952, 1955-1956.
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Coot Veal 1958-1960, 1963.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Harry Heilmann 1914, 1916-1929.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Don_Lenhardt
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Don Lenhardt 1952.
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Chick King 1954-1956.
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