June 15 in Tigers and mlb history:
1885: The Detroit Wolverines purchased Dan Casey, Sam Crane, Jim Donnelly, Jim Keenan, Deacon McGuire, Larry McKeon, Gene Moriarty, Sam Thompson, Chub Collins, and Mox McQuery from Indianapolis (Western) for $4000 (only $2000 paid due to dispute).
1911: The Detroit Tigers traded Jack Ness and $2,500 to New Bedford (New England) for Paddy Baumann.
1923: Lou Gehrig makes his Major League debut with the New York Yankees as a pinch hitter.
1925: The Philadelphia Athletics go into the bottom of the 8th inning trailing, 15 - 4, and score 13 runs to defeat the Cleveland Indians, 17 - 15.
1928: A Detroit Tigers legend for 22 years, Ty Cobb now with the Philadelphia Athletics steals home for the 54th and final time in his 24-year career to extend his major league record. It comes in the eighth inning against the Cleveland Indians.
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1931: Cut-down day for major league rosters includes the retirement of Eddie Collins and the Ex-Detroit Tigers hitter extradonaire Harry Heilmann. Collins becomes a coach for the Philadelphia Athletics and Heilmann will return briefly to the Cincinnati Reds next season.
1937: The Detroit Tigers released Babe Herman.
1938: Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds stuns the baseball world by pitching his second successive no-hitter in five days, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6 - 0, as Brooklyn plays the first night game ever at Ebbets Field. In front of 38,748 fans, including spectator Babe Ruth, Vander Meer strikes out seven and walks eight, including three one-out walks in the 9th inning. A force at home and a fly ball end the game. Vander Meer no-hit the Boston Bees, 3 - 0, on June 11th.
1938: Hall of Famer Billy Williams born this day in Whistler, AL.
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1948: The Detroit Tigers beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 - 1, before a crowd of 54,480 in the first night game at Briggs Stadium. Hal Newhouser allows just two hits in the Tigers 4-1 win over the Athletics. The Tigers are the last American League team to install lights.
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1951: The Detroit Tigers released Earl Johnson.
1952: The St. Louis Cardinals set a National League comeback record by rallying from an 11 - 0 deficit to post a 14 - 12 victory over the New York Giants. St. Louis scores seven runs in the 5th inning, three in the 7th, two in the 8th and two in the 9th to cap off the incredible comeback.
1952: in the second game of a doubleheader against the Senators, Tiger first baseman Walt Dropo gets a hit in his 12th consecutive at-bat, tying the major league record. Detroit had acquired Dropo from the Red Sox in a trade less than two weeks earlier.
1953: The Detroit Tigers traded Owen Friend, Joe Ginsberg, Art Houtteman and Bill Wight to the Cleveland Indians for Al Aber, Ray Boone, Steve Gromek and Dick Weik.
1955: The Detroit Tigers purchased Earl Torgeson from the Philadelphia Phillies.
1957: The Detroit Tigers signed Steve Boros as an amateur free agent (bonus baby).
1958: The Detroit Tigers traded Ray Boone and Bob Shaw to the Chicago White Sox for Bill Fischer and Tito Francona.
1958: Frank Lary and Jim Bunning each pitch shutouts vs the Yankees: 2-0 and 3-0.
1958: Hall of Famer Wade Boggs, born this day in Omaha, NE.
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1962: Hank Aaron and Roberto Clemente trade grand slams in a wild battle between the Braves and Pirates, but it is Clemente's that ignites a seven-run rally in the 8th for a 9 - 8 Pirate victory.
1963: The Los Angeles Angels traded George Thomas and cash to the Detroit Tigers for Paul Foytack and Frank Kostro.
1963: Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants pitches a 1 - 0 no-hitter against the Houston Colt .45's. It is the first Giants no-hitter since Carl Hubbell pitched one in 1929.
1964: "Brock For Broglio"! ~ In an infamous multi-player deal that includes pitcher Ernie Broglio, the Chicago #Cubs trade future HOF'er Lou Brock to the St. Louis Cardinals.
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1965: Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain makes a first-inning relief appearance and strikes out the first seven batters he faces, setting a major league record. He records 14 strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings as Detroit rallies to beat the Boston Red Sox, 6 - 5. Bill Freehan has a record-tying 19 putouts at catcher.
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1966: Al Kaline collects his 2,000th hit in the Tigers 11-7 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Kaline reaches the milestone in the first inning when he singles in a run against Jim Lonborg. It took Kaline just 1,769 games to get here. Kaline becomes the fifth Tiger batter to reach 2,000 hits mark, joining legends Ty Cobb, Charlie Gehringer, Sam Crawford, and Harry Heilmann.
1968: The Detroit Tigers purchased John Wyatt from the New York Yankees. The Detroit Tigers sent Jim Rooker (September 30, 1968) to the New York Yankees to complete the trade.
1968: Sam Crawford dies in Hollywood at age 88. He remains the MLB record holder in career triples (309) & inside-the-park HRs in a season (12).
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1969: The Montreal Expos purchased Dick Radatz from the Detroit Tigers.
1973: The Detroit Tigers traded Kevin Collins and Tom Timmermann to the Cleveland Indians for Ed Farmer.
1973: Former Atlanta Braves outfielder Tommie Aaron becomes the first black manager of a team located in the deep South. Aaron will manage Savannah which becomes the first Double-A team to employ an African-American manager.
1975: The Montreal Expos purchased Nate Colbert from the Detroit Tigers.
1977: In an unpopular move, the New York Mets trade franchise pitcher Tom Seaver just moments before the trading deadline. The Mets send Seaver to the Cincinnati Reds for four lesser players: infielder Doug Flynn, outfielders Steve Henderson and Dan Norman, and pitcher Pat Zachry. Seaver will go on to win 75 games for the Reds in five and a half seasons.
1984: Tigers open a series in Milwaukee with a 3-2 win. Larry Herndon hits a go-ahead bases-loaded single in the 8th. Dan Petry goes 7 innings for his 10th win. Willie Hernandez gets the save. Tigers bullpen has not lost a lead this season.
1993: In a small but necessary first step, Minor League Baseball bans the use of smokeless tobacco on the field, in dugouts and on any mode of transportation used by its teams, with violators subjected to fines and ejection. It will take until 2016 for Major League Baseball to adopt a similar measure as part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Willie Blair as a free agent.
2004: The Detroit Tigers released David Cortes.
2007: Ivan Rodriguez hits a 3-run home run and a 2-run single in the Tigers' 12-8 win in Philadelphia.
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2010: The Detroit Tigers released Adam Everett.
2012: An 8-run explosion by the Rockies in the 10th inning takes them to a 12 - 4 win over the Tigers. For the Rockies, it's the most runs they have ever scored in an extra inning; the win stops an 8-game losing streak and is their first in 10 interleague games this year. A fielding error by P Jose Valverde on Eric Young's sacrifice bunt sets up the big inning, and Carlos Gonzalez and Michael Cuddyer hit back-to-back homers off Luis Marte before the Rox are done.
2016: Ichiro Suzuki collects a pair of hits in the Marlins' 6 - 3 loss to the Padres. His 9th-inning double off Fernando Rodney is his 4,257th hit as a major leaguer, counting his time in Japan and the United States. This moves him ahead of Pete Rose for the all-time mark and brings him within 21 hits of the magic 3000 hit club in the U.S.
2016: Tigers honor Gordie Howe at Comerica Park. Check out the Red Wings logo in the Tigers script.
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2017: The Detroit Tigers released Mike Zagurski.
2017: Miguel Cabrera hits a walk-off 2 run home run gives the Tigers a 5 - 3 win over the rays.
2020: The impasse over the resumption of the MLB season gets deeper, as Commissioner Rob Manfred now states that there may not be a season at all. It was expected that he would decree a 50-game season, as allowed by the March 26th agreement between the MLBPA and owners, but he is now reluctant to do so.
2021: Taking account of Major League Baseball's decision last off-season to recognize the Negro Leagues as having been major leagues, Baseball-Reference.com unveils a major upgrade of its website to reflect this, with available Negro League numbers now integrated into players' records. "Our intent is to have consistent treatment across the white major leagues and the Black major leagues," site founder and President Sean Forman explains.
Tigers players, coaches, and executives birthdays:
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Heinie Beckendorf 1909-1910.
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Lou North 1913.
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Ben Flowers 1955.
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Champ Summers 1979-1981.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lance_Parrish
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Lance Parrish 1977-1986, coach 1999-2001, 2003-2005.
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Randy Smith General Manager 1996-2001.
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Tony Clark 1995-2001.
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Chris Wakeland 2001.
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Mike Fiers 2018.
Tigers players and managers who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Sam_Crawford
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Sam Crawford 1903-1917.
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Nigel Clarke 1905.
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Bill Lawrence 1932.
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Jimmie Dykes manager 1959-1960.
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George Smith 1963-1965.
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Billy Muffett coach 1985-1994.
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Ted Gray 1946, 1948-1954.
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