September 3 in Tigers and mlb history:
1905: Eddie Cicotte makes his major league debut with the Tigers. Will later be suspended from baseball as one of the eight "Black Sox".
1906: Ty Cobb is back in the Detroit lineup for the first time in six weeks. He has a single and steal, but he misplays a Charlie Hemphill fly ball into a home run, and the Tigers lose 1 - 0 to the Browns'. Rain stops the game after seven innings.
This might be the game Cobb was allegedly eating popcorn in the outfield.
1906: The Philadelphia Giants win the Negro Championship Cup on Labor Day in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans, black baseball's largest crowd ever. Rube Foster pitches them to a 3 - 2 victory over the Cuban X-Giants, who have John Henry Lloyd in the lineup.
1906: Kid Elberfeld, the hot-headed Tabasco Kid, assaults umpire Silk O'Loughlin and is forcibly removed by police in the first game of a doubleheader, a 4 - 3 New York win over the Athletics. In the second game, New York baserunner Willie Keeler collides with SS Lave Cross trying to field a ground ball, and two runs score. O'Loughlin sees no interference, a call so hotly disputed by A's captain Harry Davis that, after eight minutes of arguing, the umpire forfeits the game to New York. For New York, it is a major-league record 5th straight doubleheader sweep in consecutive days.
1910: The Detroit Tigers purchased Brad Kocher from the New York Highlanders.
1910: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ed Lafitte from the New York Highlanders.
1917: In a twinbill that will resonate for years, the White Sox sweep a pair, to give them 4 wins in the last two days, from the Tigers winning, 7 - 5 and 11 - 8, while the Yankees sweep a pair from the Red Sox. Chicago now leads the Red Sox by 6 1/2 games. Detroit takes the lead in the morning game, driving Red Faber from the mound in the 5th, but Ray Schalk's triple in the 8th seals the win for Chicago. In the afternoon contest, Detroit again chases Faber and scores seven runs in the 2nd and 3rd innings to take the lead, but Schalk's three-run homer in the 4th, off Bill James, puts Chicago in a lead they never relinquish. Ed Cicotte takes the p.m. game with six innings of relief, while Lefty Williams pitches three innings of hitless relief to win the a.m. game. The Sox run wild on the bases, stealing seven bases against Oscar Stanage in the opener and five against Archie Yelle in the second game. Two weeks from now, while staying at the Ansonia Hotel in New York, the White Sox will collect $45 from each player as a gift for the Tigers, allegedly as a thank you for beating the Red Sox. But suspicion will linger that some Tigers threw these two critical doubleheaders and Ty Cobb, though he had three hits, will be included in the accusations.
1928: The A's are set back as the Senators stop them twice, 6 - 1 and 5 - 4.
Ty Cobb now in his second year with the Philadelphia Athletics makes the last of his 4,191 hits, the 724th double of his career, as an A's pinch hitter in the 9th inning. 22 years with the Tigers, and now finishing with 2 years with the A's, Cobb will retire holding over 90 Major League records.
1932: Against the Red Sox, Jimmie Foxx of the A's poles his 50th and 51st home runs to become the third player to reach 50 in a season, joining Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson. Foxx's 2nd homer, in the 9th, ties the game at 4 - 4, and Eric McNair follows with a game-winning home run.
1934: Labor Day doubleheaders define the standings for the final pennant surge. Detroit, rained out in Chicago, holds a 5-game lead over the Yankees, who split a pair with the A's. Lefty Gomez wins his 24th and 10th straight in the opener, and Jimmie Foxx hits his 40th homer in the second.
1934: Washington's player-manager Joe Cronin collides with Boston's Wes Ferrell in a play at first base. Cronin fractures a bone in his arm and is out for the season. The Senators, last year's champs, will finish 7th.
1936: The Cleveland Indians purchased Joe Heving from the Detroit Tigers.
1938: Rudy York of the Tigers hits his 4th grand slam, tying the ML season record, in the Tigers 11 - 4 win over the white sox.
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1939: With the 6:30 Sunday curfew approaching, the Yankees start making deliberate outs, stalling to avoid a loss in Boston. Irate Fenway Park fans litter the field with cushions and debris. Umpire Cal Hubbard forfeits the game to the Yankees, but American League President Will Harridge subsequently overrules him, calling the game a 5 - 5 tie and fining the Yankees for their tactics.
1944: Tigers lose to the St. Louis Browns to fall behind them by 2 games. They will finish the season one game back of the Browns, who won their first and only pennant.
1947: At Fenway Park, Tommy Henrich and Joe DiMaggio lead the way with four hits each as the Yankees bang out a total eighteen hits, all singles, defeating the Red Sox, 11 - 2.
1954: Ted Williams of the Red Sox hits his 362nd home run to put him in 5th place on the all-time list.
1957: Warren Spahn of the Braves hurls his 41st shutout, the most by a National League lefthander, as he beats Chicago, 8 - 0.
1958: The Yankees spot Boston a 5 - 3 lead before Mickey Mantle homers in the 8th and Yogi Berra cracks a 3-run homer in the 9th to win it, 8 - 5. Mantle and Berra each have 85 RBIs for the year.
1961: Yankees rally and walk off on home runs by Mickey Mantle & Elston Howard to sweep the Tigers & open up a 4.5 game lead over them in the pennant race. Mantle and Roger Maris become the first teammates to hit 50 home runs each in a season.
1961: Al Kaline hits 2 doubles in game 1 of a double header loss to the orioles, en route to a career high and AL-best 41 on the season. This season is also the last that Kaline plays in 150 or more games due to serious injuries and ailments.
1967: Before a Twins crowd of 43,494, Detroit's Earl Wilson pitches a 5 - 0 shutout to narrow the Twins' lead to half a game over the Tigers. The win is Wilson's 19th.
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1968: Trailing 3-2 in the 9th in Oakland, the Tigers rally to take the lead on a Jim Northrup 2-run single, and win 6-3.
1971: Owner Phil Wrigley takes out newspaper ads criticizing the Cubs players who want to dump manager Leo Durocher. A postscript adds, "If we could only find more team players like Ernie Banks." Banks will play his last game on September 26th.
1972: Steve Carlton shuts out the Braves, 8 - 0, for his 8th whitewash of the season. This is the most shutouts for a Phillies pitcher since Grover Alexander in 1917.
1973: After 11 years at the helm (944-806 .539), Ralph Houk resigns as Yankee skipper. The "Major" will manage the Tigers next season
1980: Trailing Chicago by 3 runs with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th, the Tigers rally to win on only 1 additional hit: Champ Summers is HBP, Duffy Dyer gets an RBI groundout, Rick Peters singles, and a WP to Alan Trammell scores pinch runner Dave Stegman.
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1981: The Red Sox and the Mariners play 19 innings to a 7 - 7 tie. The game ends with the Mariners winning, 8 - 7, in 20 innings when the suspended game is resumed the next day, making it the longest game played in Fenway Park history.
1984: Tigers lose to the Orioles 4 - 1 for their 6th loss in 7 games, while the Blue Jays win to cut the Tigers' lead to 7.5 games.
1988: Lou Whitaker suffers season-ending knee injury while dancing at an anniversary party with his wife.
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1992: Baseball owners vote 18-9, with one abstention, calling for the resignation of Commissioner Fay Vincent.
1995: Tony Clark makes his big league debut.
1995: The Mets outslug the Giants, 11 - 6, despite Barry Bonds hitting the Giants' 11,000th franchise homer. Barry's father, Bobby Bonds, hit the 8,000th franchise homer exactly 24 years ago, on this day in 1971.
2002: Andy Van Hekken (1-0), with a fastball topping out in the mid-80s, becomes the first American Leaguer to throw a complete game shutout in his debut since Mike Norris in 1975, and the first Tiger since Schoolboy Rowe in 1933.
He stops Cleveland 4 - 0. The Holland, MI native was 5-0 at Toledo (AAA) before his promotion.
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2011: Tigers beat the White Sox 18-2, scoring 26 unanswered runs after trailing the Sox 8-1 in the 5th inning of their previous game. Alex Avila goes 4-for-6, Miguel Cabrera hits a home run and a double.
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2012: Tigers complete a sweep of the White Sox to tie them atop the AL Central. Delmon Young hits a 3-run home run off Chris Sale to give the Tigers a 4-2 win.
2013: Tigers lose 2-1 to john lester and the red sox. Max Scherzer falls short in his bid to become the second ever pitcher to start 20-1.
2014: Tigers score 7 runs in the 11th inning to win 11-4 in Cleveland.
2015: In the Nationals' 15 - 1 win over Atlanta, OF Bryce Harper does not have an at-bat but scores four runs, as he draws a walk in each of his four plate appearances. Only three other players have ever scored four runs in a game without an at-bat: Larry Doby in 1951, Joe Morgan in 1973 and Rickey Henderson in 1989.
2017: Former Tiger J.D. Martinez becomes the 18th player in major league history to hit 4 home runs in a game.
2019: The Detroit Tigers released Ryan Carpenter.
Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays :
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bill_Armour
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/armoubi99.shtml
Bill Armour manager 1905-1906.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moorebi01.shtml
Bill Moore 1925.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Steve_Boros
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/borosst01.shtml
Steve Boros 1957-1958, 1961-1962, Minor league assistant 1996-2002,
Player development assistant and assistant GM 2003-2004.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gilbrbi01.shtml
Bill Gilbreth 1971-1972.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gonzalu01.shtml
Luis Gonzalez 1998.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roberna01.shtml
Nate Robertson 2003-2009.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dave_Clark
Dave Clark coach 2014-2020.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/defatto01.shtml
Tony DeFate 1917.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sewelri01.shtml
Rip Sewell 1932.
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