November 2 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: Michigan, coached by Fielding Yost, beats Carlisle, coached by Pop Warner, 22-0 before 8,000 fans at Bennett Park.
1910: Ty Cobb and other Tigers play in the first of several exhibition games against Latin and black ballplayers in Cuba. Though reports of the games are hard to confirm, Cobb performed well, though he was thrown out attempting to steal by black catcher Bruce Petway, one of the best negro league players of the era.
Cobb also faces John ?Pop? Lloyd, a talented shortstop known at the time as ?The Black Honus Wagner.?
1930: Ernest Barnard completes his three-year contract as president of the American League. Among Barnard's innovations have been the establishment of an umpire's school and the recodifying of the rule book. He also led the effort to eliminate the sacrifice fly scoring rule: he considers that with inflated batting averages resulting from the livelier baseball, the batter no longer needs the benefit of not being charged a time at bat when his fly ball advances a runner.
1934: Babe Ruth arrives to a hero's welcome in Tokyo with the U.S. Baseball Tour of Japan team!
Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx take some big swings during the U.S. Baseball Team Tour of Japan!
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1937: American League batting champ Charlie Gehringer of the Detroit Tigers is named Most Valuable Player, receiving 78 out of a possible 80 points. The New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio is a close second, four points behind, while Gehringer's teammate Hank Greenberg, who had 183 RBI, is a distant third. Gehringer also becomes the third Detroit player in four years to be named MVP.
A product of Fowlerville, MI and the University of Michigan, the "Mechanical Man" hit .371 with a .458 OBP and 133 runs scored that season.
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1938: Boston Red Sox first baseman Jimmie Foxx is voted Most Valuable Player of the American League for the third time, with Yankees catcher Bill Dickey second in the voting.
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1942: The Philadelphia Athletics drafted Johnny Welaj from the Detroit Tigers in the 1942 rule 5 draft.
1951: The National Labor Relations Board files unfair labor practices charges against the Cleveland Indians on a claim the club fired a ticket seller at the union's request. This is the first case against baseball under the Taft-Hartley Act.
1952: The Lions beat the Browns 17-6 at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium.
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1960: New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris defeats teammate Mickey Mantle for the American League MVP Award, 225-222, the second-closest vote ever, behind Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams' race in 1947.
1964: CBS becomes the first corporate owner of a major league team, buying eighty percent of the New York Yankees for $11,200,000.
1972: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton is unanimously selected the National League Cy Young Award winner. Carlton won 27 games for the Phillies, who as a team won only 57 games.
1972: Former Boston Red Sox shortstop Freddy Parent dies at the age of 96. Parent had been the last surviving player from the first modern World Series between Boston and Pittsburgh in 1903.
1974: The Atlanta Braves trade Hank Aaron to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave May and a minor league pitcher. Aaron will finish his major league career in Milwaukee, where he started it with the Braves in 1954.
1976: San Diego Padres pitcher Randy Jones beats out Jerry Koosman of the New York Mets for the National League Cy Young Award. Jones led the league with 315 innings pitched and posted a 22-14 record for the fifth-place Padres.
1977: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton outpoints Tommy John of the Dodgers to win his second Cy Young Award. Carlton led the National League with 23 wins and posted a 2.64 ERA.
1978: Jim Slaton of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1983: Pitcher John Denny wins the National League Cy Young Award. Denny posted a 19-6 record with a 2.37 ERA for the National League Champion Philadelphia Phillies.
1992: Lou Whitaker of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1995: Franklin Stubbs of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1995: The New York Yankees name Joe Torre their manager, replacing the recently departed Buck Showalter. Torre, a former St. Louis Cardinals' star and National League batting champion, will guide the Yankees to four World Championships in his first five years with the team.
1999: In a ten-player megatrade, the Texas Rangers send outfielder Juan Gonzalez, pitcher Danny Patterson and catcher Gregg Zaun to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for Pitchers Justin Thompson, Alan Webb and Francisco Cordero, OF Gabe Kapler, C Bill Haselman, and infielder Frank Catalanotto.
2000: The Detroit Tigers released Hideo Nomo.
2006: Troy Percival of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Jhonny Peralta of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: William Bergolla of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Enrique Gonzalez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: David Purcey of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Jeff Salazar of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Omir Santos of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Max St. Pierre of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Scott Thorman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2012: Preparing their move to the American League in 2013, the Houston Astros go back to the future, unveiling a new uniform design and a logo based on the team colors in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They also bring back Orbit, their long-time spaceman mascot who had been discarded in favor of a jackrabbit character who never won much love from fans.
2015: Alex Avila of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Rajai Davis of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Tom Gorzelanny of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Alfredo Simon of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Randy Wolf of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: The Cubs win their first World Series title in 108 years by defeating Cleveland, 8 - 7, in Game 7, making up a three games to one deficit in the process as it's a great day for teams with ursine names. It's an epic ballgame worthy of the high stakes, as Dexter Fowler hits a lead-off homer off Corey Kluber, but the Indians manage to tie the score in the 3rd. In the 4th, the Cubs score twice, including one run on a daring rush to the plate by Kris Bryant on a fly ball to CF Rajai Davis that travels perhaps 150 feet. Javier Baez and David Ross also homer for Chicago as the Cubs build up their lead, but Cleveland scores two runs on a wild pitch by Jon Lester in the 6th, then trailing 6 - 4 with two outs in the 8th, Davis homers off Aroldis Chapman to tie the game again. Play is stopped briefly by rain after the 9th inning, but in the 10th, Ben Zobrist, who is named World Series MVP, puts the Cubs ahead with a double and Miguel Montero adds an insurance run with a single, a run which proves important as the Indians manage to score once in the bottom of the 10th before Mike Montgomery retires Michael Martinez on a grounder to third to clinch the title.
Cleveland now takes over as owners of the longest championship drought in the majors, their last title having come in 1948.
2017: Anibal Sanchez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: The Seattle Mariners selected Andrew Romine off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
2018: Phillippe Aumont of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Johnny Barbato of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Hunter Cervenka of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Kevin Chapman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Chad Huffman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Josh Thole of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: The Detroit Tigers selected Brandon Dixon off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds.
2018: The Detroit Tigers selected Jose Fernandez off waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays.
2020: Tim Adleman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Dario Agrazal of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Jose Azocar of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Sandy Baez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Jorge Bonifacio of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Dawel Lugo of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Dereck Rodriguez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Frank Schwindel of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2021: The Braves are World Series champions after defeating the Astros, 7 - 0, in Game 6 at Minute Maid Park. They take a 3 - 0 lead on Jorge Soler's homer off Luis Garcia in the 3rd, and never look back as Dansby Swanson and Freddie Freeman also go deep to build the lead and Max Fried tosses six shutout innings. Soler, who homered three times in the six games, all at key moments, is the winner of the World Series MVP Award.
2022: Four pitchers for the Astros combine to throw a no-hitter against the Phillies in Game 4 of the World Series. Cristian Javier starts things off with six hitless innings, before Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero and Ryan Pressly throw one inning each to complete the 5 - 0 win that ties the series at two wins apiece. The Astros score all five of their runs in the 5th inning. It is only the second no-hitter in World Series history, following Don Larsen's perfect game in 1956, and the third in postseason play after Roy Halladay's gem in the 2010 Division Series.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Chief Hogsett 1929-1936, 1944.
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Wilson Betemit 2011.
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Melvin Mercedes 2014.
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Parker Meadows 2023-present.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Bill Bailey 1918.
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Joe Ginsburg 1948, 1950-1953. Caught the first of Virgil Trucks' two no-hitters in 1952.
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Russ Sullivan 1951-1953.
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