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December 24 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: The Cleveland Naps traded Red Donahue to the Detroit Tigers for Happy Townsend.

1927: The St. Louis Browns traded a player to be named later, Harry Rice, Elam Vangilder and a player to be named to the Detroit Tigers for Lu Blue and Heinie Manush. The St. Louis Browns sent Chick Galloway (December 24, 1927) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

1949: Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is found lying unconscious in an alley in Hollywood, CA. The great Old Pete, who was elected to the HOF in 1938, is suffering from epilepsy and is missing one of his ears. He will die from liver disease less than a year later.

1967: While skiing at Lake Tahoe, Boston Red Sox pitcher Jim Lonborg tears the ligaments in his left knee. Lonborg, who posted a 22-9 record with 246 strikeouts and a 3.49 ERA and received the Cy Young Award, will pitch 12 more seasons in the major leagues, but will not again reach double digits in wins until 1971.

1969: In a letter to Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, traded St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood states his refusal to report to the Philadelphia Phillies citing he is not a piece of property to be sold. The MLB Players Association announces it supports Flood's suit against baseball and will pay his legal fees.

1974: St. Louis Cardinals speedster Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year by The Sporting News. He finishes ahead of such sports luminaries as tennis great Jimmy Connors, golfer Johnny Miller, and Dodgers ironman reliever Mike Marshall.

1990: The Montreal Expos trade longtime leadoff man Tim Raines to the Chicago White Sox for OF Ivan Calder?n and P Barry Jones. In 12 seasons with the Expos, the future hall of famer Raines batted .301 and stole 634 bases, the most in franchise history.

1995: The Detroit Sunday Journal reports the Tigers are spending maintenance funds on pizza pans while reducing repairs at Tiger Stadium.
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2002: In a deal which prompts a Boston Red Sox official to call the New York Yankees an "evil empire", Cuban defector Jose Contreras agrees to terms on a four-year contract with New York. Contreras, who was considered the top pitcher on Cuba's national team, was declared a free agent after gaining residency in Nicaragua.

2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Kevin Russo as a free agent.

2013: Fans enjoy skating at Comerica Park as part of the Hockey town Winter Festival.
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2022: Only days after a physical exam turned up an issue that voided Carlos Correa's $350 million with the Giants, the exam performed on behalf of the Mets, who swooped in when the Giants deal fell apart and offered him $315 million, turns up a similar issue. The concerns appear to stem from an ankle injury Correa sustained while playing in the minor leagues in 2014.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mccreed01.shtml
Ed McCreery 1914.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fostela01.shtml
Larry Foster 1963.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gintema01.shtml
Matt Ginter 2005.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rominan01.shtml
Andrew Romine 2014-2017.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Joe_Cobb
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cobbjo01.shtml
Joe Cobb 1918.

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December 25 in Tigers and mlb history:

1856: Pitcher James Francis (Pud) Galvin, a future Hall of Fame member, is born in St. Louis, Missouri. Galvin will win 364 games in a 15-year career, including two 46-win seasons.
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1862: A crowd of 40,000 watches two teams of imprisoned Union Army soldiers play baseball at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Civil War historians are debating the actual size of the crowd.

1888: At the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, on the Pennsylvania State Fair Buildings and Grounds located at Broad Street & Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia, the Downtowners beat the Uptowners in the first sanctioned indoor baseball game ever played, 6 - 1, before a crowd of 2,000.

1922: On their tour of the Far East, the Herb Hunter All-Americans, with Casey Stengel and Waite Hoyt among their members, beat a team of U.S. servicemen, 12 - 5, in Manila.
In other games, the All-Americans are the first team of major leaguers to play a Chinese team, in Shanghai, and also play a Korean all-star team in Seoul, whipping them, 21 - 3.
The American all-stars also lost a game in Japan when Zensuke Shimada hit an out-of-the-park home run against Hoyt and the Mita Club defeated the All-Americans, 9 - 3. Michimaro Ono got the win. It is the first loss by a team of touring U.S professionals in Japan.

1927: Nellie Fox, who will lead the American League in hits four times, win three Gold Gloves, play in 12 All-Star Games, and become American League MVP for the 1959 Chicago White Sox, is born in St. Thomas, Pennsylvania. It will not be until 1997, 23 years after his death, that he will finally be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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1957: With the backing of United States Representatives Kenneth Keating and Emanuel Celler, the minor league executives urge that Major League Baseball compensate them for infringement on their territorial rights.

1958: Rickey Henderson is born in Chicago, Illinois. Henderson will break into the major leagues with the Oakland Athletics in 1979, and will go on to become one of the greatest leadoff batters in mlb history before being elected to the Hall of Fame in 2009.
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2001: Hideki Matsui signs a one-year, $4.7 million contract to play for the Yomiuri Giants, becoming the highest-paid player in Nippon Pro Baseball history. The outfielder's salary surpasses the $4 million mark the Orix Blue Wave gave Ichiro Suzuki for the 2000 season.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jonesal01.shtml
Alex Jones 1903.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bill_Akers
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/akersbi01.shtml
Bill Akers 1929-1931.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ned_Garver
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/garvene01.shtml
Ned Garver 1952-1956.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hamilja01.shtml
Jack Hamilton 1964-1965.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Gene_Lamont
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lamonge01.shtml
Gene Lamont 1970-1972, 1974-1975, coach 2006-2017.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gonzaju02.shtml
Julio Gonzalez 1983.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hiljuer01.shtml
Erik Hiljus 1999-2000.

Tigers players and managers who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/olsonka01.shtml
Karl Olson 1957.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Martin
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/martibi02.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/martibi02.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Billy-Martin/
Billy Martin 1958, manager 1971-1973.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Totally Tigers

Happy Holidays (or Happy Holly Daze as we say around here) to all of our dear readers!

Whether it?s Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or another holiday you celebrate during the month of December, we send our very best wishes to all of you during this special time.

And every one of you who read TT?s blogs are the gifts that keep on giving for us. It doesn?t matter if you comment regularly, sporadically or lurk silently in the background, TT loves you all and appreciates your loyalty. We look forward to keeping this blog fresh throughout 2024.

Here?s hoping that your holidays are merry and bright. And during this time (and with huge apologies to Clement Clarke Moore), may we dream that:

(sic) ?Twas the night before Christmas, when all through Comerica Park
Front Office execs were stirring, building a roster that not yet included Max Clark.
In hopes that top prospects will soon would be there;
The fans were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of new second- and third- basemen danced in their heads.
 
December 26 in Tigers and mlb history:

1906: National League umpire Hank O'Day suggests that the batter's box be outlined with white rubber strips rather than chalk, making it impossible for hitters to erase the lines. But the rule will never be implemented.

1919: Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee makes a secret agreement to sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $100,000 (one-fourth cash, plus $25,000 a year at 6 percent) plus guaranteeing a $300,000 loan with Fenway Park as collateral. The transaction will be announced publicly in one week.
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1934: Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies the Brooklyn Dodgers' claim to the services of teenage pitcher Johnny Vander Meer. In June
of 1938 pitching for the Reds, Vander Meer will pitch no-hitters in consecutive starts, the only pitcher in MLB history to do so.

1947: Happy Birthday to Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk born this day in Bellows Falls, Town of Rockingham, VT.
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1950: With a large portion going to the players' pension fund, outgoing Commissioner Happy Chandler announces the Gillette Razor Company has purchased the television rights to the All-Star Game for six years for six million dollars.

1954: Happy Birthday to Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith, born this day in Mobile, AL.
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1974: The Little League is officially open to girls as U.S. President Gerald Ford signs legislation amending the charter of the organization. Little League had sought changes in their charter after a series of lawsuits challenged its boys-only rule.

1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Mike Christopher as a free agent.

1995: The Associated Press selects Cal Ripken, Jr.'s consecutive game streak as the top sports story of the year, followed by the death of Mickey Mantle.

2005: The Associated Press reports that baseball took a lot of shots in 2005 from politicians, commentators and players themselves as the sport struggled with steroids.
MLB went from no drug policy in 2002, to anonymous testing in 2003, to counseling for positive tests in 2004, to a dozen 10-day suspensions this year.
Starting next year, an initial positive test will result in a 50-game suspension, and players will be tested for amphetamines for the first time, with penalties for a second positive result.

2008: 44-year-old Randy Johnson, a five-time Cy Young Award winner, signs with his hometown San Francisco Giants for $8 million (with $5 million in incentives) for one season. Johnson is five wins shy of 300 for his career.

2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Gregory Soto as an amateur free agent.

2020: Hall of Famer and 300-game winner Phil Niekro passes away from cancer at age 81. He is best known for having one of the best knuckleballs of all-time, and for sharing with his brother Joe the record for most wins by a pair of brothers, with 539.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cavetpu01.shtml
Pug Cavet 1911, 1914-1915.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Herman_Pillette
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pillehe01.shtml
Herman Pillette 1922-1924.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Storm_Davis
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/davisst02.shtml
Storm Davis 1993-1994.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Omar_Infante
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/i/infanom01.shtml
Omar Infante 2002-2007, 2012-2013.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Darin_Downs
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/downsda02.shtml
Darin Downs 2012-2013.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gessldo01.shtml
Doc Gessler 1903.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/billijo02.shtml
Josh Billings 1927-1929.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reibefr01.shtml
Frank Reiber 1933-1936.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chris_Brown
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownch02.shtml
Chris Brown 1989.

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December 27 in Tigers and mlb history:

1874: The first documented baseball game in Cuba takes place in a field known as Palmar de Junco, in the province of Matanzas. In the match, called after seven innings due to darkness, the Habana team defeated that of Matanzas with the unbalanced score of 51 to 9 runs.

1919: One day after secretly working out a deal to sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee says his team will deal any player except Harry Hooper. But Hooper will be sent to the Chicago White Sox after the 1920 season.

1941: The Boston Braves mascot, Chief Nokahoma, adopted today, is considered by many as an aberration of a Natchez Native American and misrepresented in Plains Indians headdress.

1953: the Lions beat the Browns 17-16 at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium to win their second straight NFL championship.
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1967: Boston Red Sox pitching star Jim Lonborg undergoes surgery on his left knee, four days after a skiing accident. Lonborg, who won a career-high 22 games for the Red Sox during their "Impossible Dream" season, will struggle to regain his pitching form.

1972: Roberto Clemente's final home run comes on his final swing during a batting demonstration in front of "300 admiring kids during a baseball clinic at the town of Aguadilla," reports United Press International, according to whom Clemente hits "the fifth pitch about 350 feet out of left field at the local park."
Clemente's fellow Pirate and fellow Puerto Rican Fernando Gonzalez is on hand and his recollections will later be recorded by Clemente biographer Kal Wagenheim: "That day in Aguadilla, he spent the whole afternoon under the sun ? giving a clinic for the kids. At one point he was giving batting pointers, and there was a kid ? about eighteen years old ? pitching to him. The people in the stands kept yelling, 'Roberto, bet you can't hit a homer!' Finally, on the last pitch, he smacked the ball right out of the stadium. He gave the kid the bat as a souvenir, and somebody else got the ball. Afterward, they erected a small monument to mark the spot where the ball fell. I think that was the last time Roberto swung a bat, and he hit a home run."

1992: The Detroit Tigers signed Juan Encarnacion as an amateur free agent.

1995: Hall of Fame umpire Al Barlick dies at the age of 80 in Springfield, Illinois. Known for his decisiveness and hustle, Barlick worked National League games from 1940 to 1972, and gained election to the Hall in 1989.

2001: After 21 years being heard on WABC, the New York Yankees will broadcast their spring training, regular-season and postseason games on all-news station WCBS-AM which is owned by Infinity Broadcasting. The five-year deal with the Yankees' YES Network, created earlier this year, is worth approximately $50 million.

2012: OF Hideki Matsui announces his retirement at a press conference in New York, NY. He had hit .304 with 332 home runs as a three-time MVP during his prime in Japan, then added 175 homers, a World Series MVP award and a .282 average winding down his career in the US.

2020: Stories circulate that the Rays have traded former Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell to the Padres in return for four prospects. Snell was at the center of the most controversial play of the most recent postseason when Rays manager Kevin Cash took him out of a dominating start against the Dodgers in Game 6 of the World Series, only to see his bullpen cough up the lead and the game in short order, giving the Dodgers the title.

2020: Hall of Famer and 300-game winner Phil Niekro passes away from cancer at age 81. He is best known for having one of the best knuckleballs of all-time, and for sharing with his brother Joe the record for most wins by a pair of brothers, with 539.

2022: The Rangers sign free agent P Nathan Eovaldi for two years at $34 million, adding him to a revamped starting rotation that also includes another off-season signee in Jacob deGrom.

2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Aneurys Zabala as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Charlie_Carr
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/carrch01.shtml
Charlie Carr 1903-1904.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jackie_Tavener
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tavenja01.shtml
Jackie Tavener 1921, 1925-1928.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Red_Lynn
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lynnre01.shtml
Red Lynn 1939.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jim_Tobin
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tobinji01.shtml
Jim Tobin 1945.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dean_Palmer
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/palmede01.shtml
Dean Palmer 1999-2003.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Rick_Porcello
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/porceri01.shtml
Rick Porcello 2009-2014.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/buelofr01.shtml
Fritz Buelow 1901-1904.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/peaslma01.shtml
Marv Peasley 1910.

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