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March 18 in Tigers and mlb history:
1909: In an exhibition between St. Louis College and the Tigers in San Antonio, engineering major Mark Gallia strikes out Ty Cobb.
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1926: Ty Cobb returns from eye surgery wearing protective sunglasses.
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1930: The Philadelphia Athletics selected Spence Harris off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1942: Two black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox during spring training in Pasadena, California. Sox manager Jimmie Dykes allows the two to work out but later dismisses them. Robinson will have to wait five years before making his major league debut.
1943: Due to wartime travel restrictions, spring training camps begin opening in northern locations. Some of the locales include Bear Mountain, New York (Brooklyn Dodgers), French Lick Springs, Indiana (Cubs and White Sox), Asbury Park, New Jersey (Yankees), Medford, Massachusetts (Boston Red Sox) and Wallingford, Connecticut (Boston Braves).
1953: The Milwaukee Braves become the first franchise to move since 1903, when the Baltimore Orioles became the New York Highlanders. The Braves have been in Boston, MA for 77 years. In a related move, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers move to Toledo, Ohio, where they become the latest incarnation of the Toledo Mud Hens.
1957: In what is believed to be the largest offer for a player to date, Cleveland Indians general manager Hank Greenberg reject a million-dollar offer for left-handed pitcher Herb Score from Boston Red Sox GM Joe Cronin. Greenberg refuses, saying that Cleveland is interested in building for the future, not in selling its premier ballplayers. Score won 20 games in 1956 and led the American League with 263 strikeouts. Unfortunately, six weeks later,
Score will be struck in the eye by a batted ball by Gil McDougald and will win only 19 more games over the rest of his career.
1963: The Washington Senators purchased Ron Kline from the Detroit Tigers.
1964: The Chicago White Sox purchased Don Mossi from the Detroit Tigers.
1970: The Cleveland Indians and Seattle Pilots play an exhibition game with the experimental X-5 ball, which is reported to be five per cent livelier than a regulation ball. The Pilots beat the Indians, 19 - 14. One week later, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn orders the livelier ball to be discontinued.
1974: At Pompano Beach training camp, country singer Charley Pride plays for the Texas Rangers against pitcher Jim Palmer and the Baltimore Orioles. A former Negro League player, Pride grounds out and singles in two at-bats, as the Orioles coast, 14 - 2.
1981: All-Star catcher Carlton Fisk leaves the Boston Red Sox to sign a free agent contract with the Chicago White Sox. The five-year pact will pay Fisk $2.9 million.
1984: Charlie Lau, renowned batting instructor, dies in Key Colony Beach, FL, at age 50 after a long bout with cancer. Lau, whose major league career batting average was .255, earned his fame as the Kansas City Royals batting coach from 1971 to 1978, where his star pupil was George Brett. Lau also served as a batting coach for the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox and wrote a book called "The Art of Hitting .300".
1985: Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Fame members Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, who had been banned from association with organized baseball by former commissioner Bowie Kuhn due to their employment by Atlantic City casinos. Ueberroth's ruling will allow both men to pursue employment with major league teams.
1986: The Detroit Tigers released Doug Flynn.
1990: Major league players and owners reach a new collective bargaining agreement that will end the 32-day lockout of spring training camps. Highlights of the deal include increasing the clubs' contributions to the players' pension fund, raising the major league minimum salary to $100,000, and a compromise on salary arbitration that leaves 17 percent of players with between two and three years of major league experience eligible.
2009: The Chicago Cubs announce that they will retire number 31 on May 3rd in honor of Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux.
2021: The Detroit Tigers signed Mark Leiter Jr. as a free agent.
Tigers players, coaches, announcers, and writers birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/taylowi01.shtml
Wiley Taylor 1911.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Benton
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bentoal01.shtml
Al Benton 1938-1942, 1945-1948.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/whiteha01.shtml
Hal White 1941-1943, 1946-1952.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Eddie_Lake
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lakeed01.shtml
Eddie Lake 1946-1950.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dick_Littlefield
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/littldi01.shtml
Dick Littlefield 1952.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Fred_Hatfield
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hatfifr01.shtml
Fred Hatfield 1952-1956, coach 1957-1958.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Plimpton
George Plimpton, author.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/murphdw01.shtml
Dwayne Murphy 1988.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berroge01.shtml
Geronimo Berroa 1998.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Fernando_Rodney
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodnefe01.shtml
Fernando Rodney 2002-2003, 2005-2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Impemba
@mario_impemba Mario Impemba TV broadcaster 2002-2018.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thomafr01.shtml
Frosty Thomas 1905.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksch01.shtml
Herbert Jackson 1905.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beardge01.shtml
Gene Bearden 1951.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Charley_Lau
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lauch01.shtml
Charlie Lau 1956, 1958-1959.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Charlie_Metro
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/metroch01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/charlie-metro/
Charlie Metro 1943-1944, minor league manager 1953-1956, 1960-1961, scout 1972-1973.
Baseball Reference
1909: In an exhibition between St. Louis College and the Tigers in San Antonio, engineering major Mark Gallia strikes out Ty Cobb.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5wn30UXEAAnp0Z.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D18SKh_WwAMTYQB.jpg
1926: Ty Cobb returns from eye surgery wearing protective sunglasses.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cj96GRiWUAAk02Q.jpg
1930: The Philadelphia Athletics selected Spence Harris off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1942: Two black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox during spring training in Pasadena, California. Sox manager Jimmie Dykes allows the two to work out but later dismisses them. Robinson will have to wait five years before making his major league debut.
1943: Due to wartime travel restrictions, spring training camps begin opening in northern locations. Some of the locales include Bear Mountain, New York (Brooklyn Dodgers), French Lick Springs, Indiana (Cubs and White Sox), Asbury Park, New Jersey (Yankees), Medford, Massachusetts (Boston Red Sox) and Wallingford, Connecticut (Boston Braves).
1953: The Milwaukee Braves become the first franchise to move since 1903, when the Baltimore Orioles became the New York Highlanders. The Braves have been in Boston, MA for 77 years. In a related move, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers move to Toledo, Ohio, where they become the latest incarnation of the Toledo Mud Hens.
1957: In what is believed to be the largest offer for a player to date, Cleveland Indians general manager Hank Greenberg reject a million-dollar offer for left-handed pitcher Herb Score from Boston Red Sox GM Joe Cronin. Greenberg refuses, saying that Cleveland is interested in building for the future, not in selling its premier ballplayers. Score won 20 games in 1956 and led the American League with 263 strikeouts. Unfortunately, six weeks later,
Score will be struck in the eye by a batted ball by Gil McDougald and will win only 19 more games over the rest of his career.
1963: The Washington Senators purchased Ron Kline from the Detroit Tigers.
1964: The Chicago White Sox purchased Don Mossi from the Detroit Tigers.
1970: The Cleveland Indians and Seattle Pilots play an exhibition game with the experimental X-5 ball, which is reported to be five per cent livelier than a regulation ball. The Pilots beat the Indians, 19 - 14. One week later, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn orders the livelier ball to be discontinued.
1974: At Pompano Beach training camp, country singer Charley Pride plays for the Texas Rangers against pitcher Jim Palmer and the Baltimore Orioles. A former Negro League player, Pride grounds out and singles in two at-bats, as the Orioles coast, 14 - 2.
1981: All-Star catcher Carlton Fisk leaves the Boston Red Sox to sign a free agent contract with the Chicago White Sox. The five-year pact will pay Fisk $2.9 million.
1984: Charlie Lau, renowned batting instructor, dies in Key Colony Beach, FL, at age 50 after a long bout with cancer. Lau, whose major league career batting average was .255, earned his fame as the Kansas City Royals batting coach from 1971 to 1978, where his star pupil was George Brett. Lau also served as a batting coach for the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox and wrote a book called "The Art of Hitting .300".
1985: Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Fame members Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, who had been banned from association with organized baseball by former commissioner Bowie Kuhn due to their employment by Atlantic City casinos. Ueberroth's ruling will allow both men to pursue employment with major league teams.
1986: The Detroit Tigers released Doug Flynn.
1990: Major league players and owners reach a new collective bargaining agreement that will end the 32-day lockout of spring training camps. Highlights of the deal include increasing the clubs' contributions to the players' pension fund, raising the major league minimum salary to $100,000, and a compromise on salary arbitration that leaves 17 percent of players with between two and three years of major league experience eligible.
2009: The Chicago Cubs announce that they will retire number 31 on May 3rd in honor of Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux.
2021: The Detroit Tigers signed Mark Leiter Jr. as a free agent.
Tigers players, coaches, announcers, and writers birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/taylowi01.shtml
Wiley Taylor 1911.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Benton
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bentoal01.shtml
Al Benton 1938-1942, 1945-1948.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/whiteha01.shtml
Hal White 1941-1943, 1946-1952.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Eddie_Lake
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lakeed01.shtml
Eddie Lake 1946-1950.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dick_Littlefield
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/littldi01.shtml
Dick Littlefield 1952.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Fred_Hatfield
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hatfifr01.shtml
Fred Hatfield 1952-1956, coach 1957-1958.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Plimpton
George Plimpton, author.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/murphdw01.shtml
Dwayne Murphy 1988.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berroge01.shtml
Geronimo Berroa 1998.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Fernando_Rodney
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodnefe01.shtml
Fernando Rodney 2002-2003, 2005-2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Impemba
@mario_impemba Mario Impemba TV broadcaster 2002-2018.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thomafr01.shtml
Frosty Thomas 1905.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksch01.shtml
Herbert Jackson 1905.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beardge01.shtml
Gene Bearden 1951.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Charley_Lau
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lauch01.shtml
Charlie Lau 1956, 1958-1959.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Charlie_Metro
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/metroch01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/charlie-metro/
Charlie Metro 1943-1944, minor league manager 1953-1956, 1960-1961, scout 1972-1973.
Baseball Reference
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