July 21 in Tigers and mlb history:
1902: Roscoe Miller jumped from the Detroit Tigers to the New York Giants.
1915: Babe Ruth pitches and bats the Red Sox to a 4 - 2 win over the host St. Louis Browns. Ruth is 4 for 4 with a tremendous homer and two doubles, and knocks in three runs. He scatters five hits with the two St. Louis runs coming on Heinie Wagner errors.
1919: Babe Ruth hits a home run over the right field wall at Navin Field (Tiger Stadium). Ty Cobb has 3 infield hits off Ruth in the Tigers' 6-2 win.
1926: Tris Speaker hits his 700th career double in the Indians' 6 - 0 win over the Athletics. Speaker will finish his career with a record 792 doubles.
1928: Jimmie Foxx hits the longest drive ever seen out of Shibe Park as the A's take two from St. Louis, increasing their lead over the third-place Browns to 10 games.
1936: Mickey Cochrane has a relapse, and Del Baker again takes charge of the Tigers. Detroit takes a pair from the visiting A's winning 8 - 0 behind Tommy Bridges, and 9 - 8 as Schoolboy Rowe wins in relief. The Tigers score a pair in the 8th inning when, with the bases loaded, Mickey Owen hits into a double play. Goose Goslin scores the tying run and Gee Walker, who reaches third base on the play, scores when 1B Chubby Dean is caught napping.
1937: Rogers Hornsby is fired as manager of the St. Louis Browns for playing the horses; Jim Bottomley takes over.
1939: Toronto (International) purchased Jim Walkup from the Detroit Tigers.
1945: The Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics battle to a 1 - 1 tie in 24 innings. Les Mueller hurls 19 2/3 innings for the Tigers. No hurler has matched this endurance feat.
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1956: Junior Gilliam sets a major league record by handling 12 assists at second base.
1959: Under intense public pressure and the Massachusetts Committee Against Discrimination investigation, the Red Sox become the last club to integrate. Fourteen years after the club passes on Jackie Robinson, despite a successful tryout in 1945, Elijah 'Pumpsie' Green pinch runs and plays shortstop to become the first black to play for the Red Sox. Tomorrow Green will go 0 for 3 against Early Wynn.
1960: Robin Roberts pitches his third career one-hitter, and the third one-hitter of the season in new Candlestick Park. Felipe Alou spoils Roberts' no-hit bid in the 5th inning of a 3 - 0 Philadelphia win. 3B Joe Morgan fields the hit, but falls down and cannot make a throw.
1961: Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris slam back-to-back home runs in the 1st inning for New York, but it takes a two-out, 9th-inning pinch-hit grand slam by Johnny Blanchard to finally subdue the Red Sox, 11 - 8, at Fenway Park. The pinch slam is the American League's 6th of the season, a new record.
1961: The Baltimore Orioles traded Frank House to the Detroit Tigers for Harry Chiti.
1963: Jerry Lynch's major league record-tying 14th pinch-hit home run, a three-run shot off the Cubs' Lindy McDaniel in the 9th inning, ties the game, and the Pirates win, 6 - 5, in 14 innings. The Cubs take the opener, 5 - 1.
1963: The usually mild-mannered Dodger manager Walter Alston is thrown out of both games of a doubleheader as the Braves sweep a twin bill from the Dodgers for the first and only time in Milwaukee, 7 - 2 and 13 - 7. To make matters worse, the Los Angeles skipper has beer thrown in his face by a hometown fan as he leaves the second game.
1965: Willie Horton hits a 3-run home run and drives in 5 on the day in the Tigers' 10-5 win over Cleveland at Tiger Stadium.
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1969: A gala All-Star Game banquet in Washington is one of baseball's great events. An all-time team and all-time living team are announced. Babe Ruth is selected Greatest All-Time Player, and Joe DiMaggio, Greatest Living Player.
1972: The Dodgers release P Hoyt Wilhelm, ending his Hall of Fame career two days before his 49th birthday. Wilhelm appeared in 1,070 games, the most of any major league pitcher to that point.
He is also the last World War II veteran to play in the majors. He survived the Battle of the Bulge, suffering a permanent neck wound in the action.
1973: Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron hits a Ken Brett fastball into the left-centerfield stands for a two-run home run during an 8 - 4 loss to the Phillies.
It is career home run number 700 for Aaron, only the second player to reach that milestone, after Babe Ruth.
1984: Tigers 7 - Rangers 6. Sid Monge scatters 3 hits over 4 innings of relief. Tigers score 5 in the 5th on RBIs by Ruppert Jones, Chet Lemon, & Howard Johnson. Willie Hernandez gets his 19th save. Tigers are 65-29.
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1992: Randy Johnson strikes out 13 batters in 6 innings, but gives up 6 runs - 3 earned - in losing to Detroit, 6 - 2. Frank Tanana is the winner. It is Johnson's 8th loss in a row, the longest losing streak for an American League starter this year.
1993: In Minnesota's win over Detroit, Tony Phillips goes 0 for 4 with two strikeouts against two Twins pitchers. It is his only game without a hit, walk or hit by pitch in a string of 101 games.
1997: The Detroit Tigers released Jose Bautista.
2007: The Pittsburgh Pirates retire Paul Waner's number 11. It is the 10th retired number in the history of the franchise and the first in 10 years. The last player to wear the number was Humberto Cota, earlier in the season.
2008: The Detroit Tigers released Fernando Seguignol.
2008: The Tigers beat the Royals 19 - 4. It is their third time scoring 19 or more runs this season, the first time a major league team had done that since the 1950 Red Sox. Miguel Cabrera drives in six runs and Matt Joyce five in the rout.
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2017: Victor Martinez hits two home runs in the Tigers' 6-3 win in Minnesota.
2019: The 2019 Hall of Fame Class is inducted in Cooperstown, NY, with six former players being honored: Harold Baines, Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina, Mariano Rivera and Lee Smith. All are present, save for Halladay, who passed away in a plane crash in 2017 and, who is represented by his wife, Brandy. Rivera, the first player to be elected unanimously to the Hall, gets the honor of speaking last, befitting his status as the greatest closer in history.
2019: The Detroit Tigers signed Edwin Jackson as a free agent.
2020: The Detroit Tigers released Hector Santiago.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Kimera Bartee 1996-1999.
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Denny Harriger 1998.
Tigers players or managers who passed away:
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Jim McGarr 1912.
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Hughie Wise 1930.
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Ralph Houk manager 1974-1978.
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