June 9 in Tigers and mlb history:
1900: A forerunner of today's players' union is organized in New York. Three delegates from each National League team launch the Players Protective Association and elect Chief Zimmer president. Former player Harry Taylor? of Buffalo? is the attorney. Their goal is to negotiate contracts and rules changes.
1905: The A's Rube Waddell loses after 10 wins in a row as the White Sox beat him, 3 - 2 in 14 innings. Waddell will be 26-11 for the Athletics this year; his 1.48 ERA will be the American League's best.
1912: In St. Louis? Red Sox rookie Hugh Bedient coasts to a 9 - 2 win over the Browns. Tris Speaker? the American League's leading hitter? is 4 for 5 off Roy Mitchell? hitting for the cycle to pace the Boston attack.
1914: At the Baker Bowl, Honus Wagner joins Cap Anson as the only members of the 3000 hit club. It comes in Wagner's 2,332nd game. Nap Lajoie will join the club in September. Later calculations will put the date of Wagner's historic hit on June 30th or July 4th, given discrepancies in 19th century record-keeping.
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1915: The 2nd-place Tigers paste the Red Sox? 15 - 0. With lefty Ray Collins on the mound in the 3rd? Ty Cobb swipes home? one of his 3 steals on the day. His steal attempt in the first inning cuts up SS Everett Scott? forcing him to retire. The Tigers manage 17 hits? including 4 by Bobby Veach. Hooks Dauss? with 6 innings pitched? is the winner.
But despite 100 wins by the Tigers this season, Boston will edge them out for the pennant.
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1916: In Detroit? consecutive doubles by Bobby Veach and George Burns stop Babe Ruth's scoreless innings streak at 25 innings. Ruth evens the score with a longest drive ever seen at Navin Field? into the RF bleachers. When Ruth tires in the 9th? Carl Mays relieves and loses? 6 - 5.
1918: Ossie Vitt gets the Tigers' only hit off Walter Johnson in a 2-0 loss.
1920: The Yankees come from behind to club the host Tigers? 13 - 6. Pacing the Yanks are Bob Meusel? with a double and two singles? and George Mogridge with a bases-loaded double before the Tigers knock him out. Babe Ruth has a single? two walks and is hit with a pitch. The Tigers are playing without Ty Cobb? out ten days with an injured knee.
1923: Tigers RF Harry Heilmann rounds third base after hitting a solo home run off Athletics pitcher Rollie Naylor in the top of the 4th inning. Tigers 8 - Athletics 6. Shibe Park, Philadelphia
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1927: New York #Yankees legend Babe Ruth signs some bats & balls during his visit to Governors Island.
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1928: The Memphis Red Sox visit the Detroit Stars at Mack Park. Detroit is on a 7 game NNL winning streak and still has hope of catching St. Louis for the first half pennant. Memphis has signed Heavy Johnson after he was released by Cleveland.
1932: Hack Wilson avenges an April humiliation as he clouts a 1st-inning grand slam off Chicago's Pat Malone to lead the Dodgers to a 5 - 2 win. Hack also drives home the 5th run. Weeks ago in Chicago? the Cubs had walked a man to load the bases for Wilson? who then grounded into a double play. The fans heaped scorn on Hack and showered lemons onto the field. Wilson's five RBIs is a birthday present for the 21-year-old Van Lingle Mungo? who finishes the win in an hour and 37 minutes. His only mistake is a two-run homer to Gabby Hartnett in the 2nd.
1932: Mel Ott duplicates his effort of two days ago by clouting a pair of homers in the Giants' 3 - 2 win over the Reds at the Polo Grounds. The clouts help Jim Mooney best Ownie Carroll. The southpaw allows just three hits after George Grantham connect for a homer in the 2nd.
1933: In Philadelphia? Jimmie Foxx ties a major league record with another homer? his 5th in 3 games and his 12th of the year? but the A's bow to the Yankees, 7 - 6. Lou Gehrig hits his 12th of the year and Tony Lazzeri hits a 3-run homer in the 8th to ice it. The sweltering heat in the east (New York City sets a heat record for the date with 97 degrees) causes both starters to end early; Jim Peterson leaves after walking the leadoff batter and after 5 innings Jumbo Brown collapses in the Yankees dugout and has to be carried away.
1934: A tired and sore-armed Lefty Grove gives up major league record-tying 6 doubles? including a record 5 consecutive? in the 8th inning as the Senators beat the Red Sox? 8 - 1.
1936: Browns manager Rogers Hornsby makes his second and last appearance of the season as he replaces the injured Jim Bottomley at 1B. The Browns beat the league-leading Yankees? 5 - 3? when The Rajah draws a walk to force in the winning run and Beau Bell follows with another walk.
1937: Mickey Cochrane is taken off Detroit's active-player roster. 3B Marv Owen is sidelined with a broken bone in his hand? and Rudy York is recalled from Toledo to replace him.
1937: Dizzy Dean outpitches Carl Hubbell as the Cards top the Giants? 8 - 1.
1945: Following an 8 - 7 win over the Phils? Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher, allegedly using brass knuckles? slugged him after an Ebbets Field cop hit him and broke his jaw? then pinned back his arms. The fan? John Christian? had been loudly berating the Dodgers and? after the 6th inning? the policeman was escorting the fan beneath the stands when the incident occurred. The case will come to trial next April and the all-male jury will take just 38 minutes to find the policeman and Durocher not guilty. In a separate settlement of a civil suit before the trial? Durocher paid Christian $6?750.
1946: The New York Giants' Mel Ott becomes the first major league manager to be ejected in both ends of a doubleheader. The Pittsburgh Pirates win both games, 2 - 1 and 5 - 1.
1946: Ted Williams hits his "red seat" home run at Fenway.
1952: The Detroit Tigers signed Harvey Kuenn as an amateur free agent.
1954: The Detroit Tigers traded Johnny Bucha, Chuck Kress, Ernie Nevel and cash to the Brooklyn Dodgers for Wayne Belardi.
1955: The Detroit Tigers signed Jim Brady as an amateur free agent (bonus baby).
1959: Willie Horton & Matt Snorton of Detroit K12 Northwestern High slam home runs at Briggs Stadium as Colts defeat Cass Tech 13-10 for city baseball title. Horton is 16 and his blast is a 400-foot upper deck smash. He will debut with the Tigers in 1963. Matt Snorton went on to play tight end at Michigan State and was drafted by the Lions, instead playing five games for the AFL's Denver Broncos. He later became the emergency manager for Christian County, Ky. Snorton died on Dec. 30, 2016 at the age of 74.
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1963: Ernie Banks bangs solo homers off Sandy Koufax? in the 2nd and the 5th at Wrigley Field? and the Cubs kayo the ace with 6 earned runs in 5 2/3 innings. But Sandy gets no decision as the Dodgers outslug the Cubs? 11 - 8.
1968: After President Lyndon B. Johnson declares this a national day of mourning in memory of the assassinated Robert Kennedy? the Reds players threaten to boycott today's doubleheader with the Cardinals. Led by Milt Pappas and Vada Pinson? the team? by a slim majority? votes not to play. A very upset general manager Bob Howsam and manager Dave Bristol call for 9 volunteers to play. Pete Rose? Tommy Helms? and Jim Maloney leave the clubhouse and shortly afterwards the rest of the team follows. The Reds take an 8 - 0 lead after 4 innings before the Birds lay 10 runs in the 5th to complete the scoring. It's a reverse in the nightcap as the Cards take a 6 - 1 lead? and the Reds score 5 in the 5th to tie? and once in the 12th inning to win? 7 - 6.
1969: Mickey Lolich's 16 strikeouts in 9 innings ties the Detroit record he set May 23rd? but the Tigers drop a 3 - 2? 10-inning decision to Seattle. Pat Dobson is the loser. The only run off Lolich is a leadoff home run by Dick Simpson on the first pitch of the game.
1970: Detroit's Willie Horton clubs 3 home runs? including a grand slam? knocking in 7 runs in an 8 - 3 win over Milwaukee.
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1973: The New York Mets retire #14 for the late Gil Hodges - manager of the 1969 World Series champions.
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1979: Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 batters in a 4-hit? 9 - 1? Angels victory over the Tigers.
1979: Tom Seaver fires a 3-hitter? retiring the last 24 batters? in the Reds' 7 - 1 win over the Expos.
1984: For the second time in a week? the Orioles' Mike Flanagan beats the Tigers? this time shutting them out? 4 - 0? out on 7 hits. The Tigers stay in front by 5 1/2 games.
1985: The Detroit Tigers signed Mike York as a free agent.
1990: The Detroit Tigers signed Steve Lombardozzi as a free agent.
1990: Eddie Murray of the Los Angeles Dodgers homers from each side of the plate for the tenth time in his career (the second time this season) to tie Mickey Mantle's major-league record.
2003: The Detroit Tigers purchased Kevin Jordan from Camden (Atlantic).
2008: Ken Griffey Jr, watches his 600th career home run.
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2009: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jacob Turner in the 1st round (9th pick) of the 2009 amateur draft. Player signed August 17, 2009.
2009: The Detroit Tigers drafted Andy Oliver in the 2nd round of the 2009 amateur draft. Player signed August 17, 2009.
2009: The Detroit Tigers drafted Daniel Fields in the 6th round of the 2009 amateur draft. Player signed August 17, 2009.
2009: The Detroit Tigers drafted Adam Wilk in the 11th round of the 2009 amateur draft. Player signed June 18, 2009.
2009: The Detroit Tigers drafted Giovanni Soto in the 21st round of the 2009 amateur draft. Player signed June 23, 2009.
2009: The Detroit Tigers drafted Parker Markel in the 32nd round of the 2009 amateur draft, but was not signed.
2010: The Detroit Tigers drafted Cody Hall in the 35th round of the 2010 amateur draft, but was not signed.
2015: The Detroit Tigers released Ryan Perry.
2015: The Detroit Tigers drafted Drew Smith in the 3rd round of the 2015 amateur draft. Player signed June 18, 2015.
2015: The Detroit Tigers drafted Matt Hall in the 6th round of the 2015 amateur draft. Player signed June 17, 2015.
2016: The Detroit Tigers drafted Matt Manning in the 1st round (9th pick) of the 2016 amateur draft. Player signed June 23, 2016.
2018: Tigers 2B from 1961 to 1967 Jake Wood helps honor former Negro League players and their relatives in a pregame tribute.
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2018: Tigers beat Cleveland 4-2 on a 2-run walk-off home run by Jeimer Candelario in the 12th inning.
2019: Former Boston Red Sox great David Ortiz is shot in the back while sitting in a bar in Santo Domingo. The shooter is immediately apprehended, while Ortiz undergoes surgery and is said to be out of danger.
2021: The Hall of Fame announces that it is pushing back its annual induction ceremony from July 25 to September 8th and that for the first time, prospective attendees will need to secure tickets in advance, albeit free of charge, in order to control numbers. Last year's ceremony had to be cancelled due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, and the four men awaiting elected in 2020 had to wait one more year for their big day. They will be the only inductees to be honored, as no one made it successfully in the most recent ballot.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
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Billy Baldwin 1975.
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Javair Gilett strength/conditioning coach 2005-2014.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Frank Huelsman 1904.
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