July 19 in Tigers and mlb history:
1910: Cy Young at age 43, wins his 500th game 5 - 4, over Washington in 11 innings.
1912: Ty Cobb strokes seven hits in a doubleheader to give him a major-league record of 14 in two consecutive twin bills against the Athletics. Bill White will tie Cobb in 1961. Cobb also pummeled the A's for seven hits on the 17th on his way to collecting an incredible 68 hits for the month, a Major League record, batting .535 for the month (68 in 127 at bats), with 11 doubles, 8 triples, and 3 home runs.
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1915: Ty Cobb goes 2-for-5 and steals 2 bases in the Tigers' 12-6 win over the philadelphia athletics.
1920: Babe Ruth becomes the first player in MLB history to hit 30 home runs in one season. The shot off Dickey Kerr of the White Sox breaks his record of 29 from the previous year. He added a second home run later in the game, but the Yankees lost at the Polo Grounds, 8-5. Ruth finished with an astounding 54 homers in 1920, outhomering every other MLB team except the Phillies (64).
1927: The Washington Senators selected Ed Wells off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1930: The Detroit Tigers traded cash and a player to be named to Toronto (International) for Guy Cantrell.
1933: For the first time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox C Rick Ferrell hits his home run off brother Wes of Cleveland. Wes hits his off Hank Johnson in the 3rd inning. Wes will wind up his career with 38 homers in 548 games. Rick will hit only 28 in 1,884 games.
1936: 17-year-old Iowa farm boy Bob Feller makes his major league debut, pitching one inning of relief against the Senators in Washington, D.C. The hard-throwing kid allows no hits and no runs, striking out none, and walks two batters.
1950: At Fenway Park Vern Stephens crashes a 3-run home run in the 1st off Fred Hutchinson. Detroit wins 9 - 5, with a little help in the 9th from umpire Jim Boyer. Boyer calls time just before pinch-hitter Tom Wright triples to CF. In his do-over, Wright grounds out.
1950: The Yankees obtain their first black players, OF Elston Howard and P Frank Barnes. They purchase them from the Kansas City Monarchs and assign them to the Muskegon Clippers (Central League).
1955: Tigers relief pitcher Babe Birrer hits two 3-run home runs in a 12-4 win over the Orioles.
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1960: Rocky Colavito breaks up Pedro Ramos' no-hitter with a leadoff single in the 8th inning in a loss to the senators.
1961: Ty Cobb is buried in Royston, Georgia. Contrary to myth, he was mourned by hundreds.
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1964: Luis Tiant debuts with a 4-hit, 11-strikeout, 3 - 0 win for Cleveland at Yankee Stadium. The losing pitcher is Whitey Ford. Tiant was brought up yesterday after posting a 15-1 record at Portland (AAA).
1968: Tommy Matchick hits a walk-off home run into the right field upper deck at Tiger Stadium, the first of just four home runs of his career, and the Tigers beat the orioles 5 - 4.
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1977: While pursuing Hank Aaron's home run record, Sadaharu Oh of the Yomiuri Giants breaks a record held by Babe Ruth when he draws his 2,057th base on balls.
1977: At Yankee Stadium, the National League scores four times in the opening inning off Jim Palmer, en route to a 7 - 5 All-Star Game victory. Don Sutton, hurling three scoreless innings, is named the game's MVP.
1982: In the first annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic at Washington's Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot homer off Warren Spahn to help the American League to a 7 - 2 win over the National League in a 5-inning battle of retired baseball stars.
1984: Tigers beat the rangers 9 - 2. Gibson and Parrish hit home runs and collect 5 RBI between them. Milt Wilcox earns his 9th win.
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1991: Detroit pounds Kansas City 17 - 0, to give Bill Gullickson an easy win over Tom Gordon. It is the worst loss in franchise history for KC, and a reversal of the match-up of July 14th between the same two starters.
That day, the Royals routed the Bengals, 18 - 4.
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1993: The Detroit Tigers released Mark Grater.
1999: Tigers starting pitcher Jeff Weaver goes 2-for-2 at the plate with a single and double in a 7 - 6 win over the reds.
2000: Gibby and Tigers clubhouse manager Jim Schmakel talking bats. Tune in Saturday for a special @tigers broadcast ?Behind the Seams".
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2014: The Detroit Tigers released Ronny Paulino.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
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Erve Beck 1902.
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Earl Hamilton 1916.
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Mark Koenig 1930-1931.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Phil_Cavarretta
Phil Cavarretta coach 1961-1963.
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Mark Carreon 1992.
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Phil Coke 2010-2014.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Don_Mossi
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Don Mossi 1959-1963.
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