August 12 in Tigers and mlb history:
1909: The Detroit Tigers purchased Hub Pernoll from Aberdeen (Northwestern) for $4,000.
1910: The Detroit Tigers purchased Tex Covington from Evansville (Central).
1912: Three men attack Ty Cobb on his way to the Detroit rail station. Cobb sustains a cut on his shoulder, but catches one of his attackers and pistol-whips him. Cobb then travels to Syracuse and gets two hits in an exhibition game.
1915: The Detroit Tigers purchased George Cunningham from Chattanooga (Southern Association).
1932: American League president Will Harridge upholds Detroit's protest of its August 1st game against New York and orders it replayed on September 8. Detroit had protested because Tony Lazzeri's and Ben Chapman's batting order was orally reversed after the lineup cards were handed in before the game.
1937: In the first of two with the Yankees? Jimmie Foxx hits one way out of Fenway Park? the ball leaving the park to the right of the CF flag pole. The shot comes off New York's Kemp Wicker and helps the Red Sox overpower the Yankees? 16 - 10, stopping New York's win streak at 10.
1945: In the lid-lifter at Briggs Stadium? pitcher Jim Tobin acquired on waivers? pitches 3 scoreless innings against New York and clubs a 3-run game-ending homer in the bottom of the 11th to win 9 - 6. Another former Brave Jim Turner? serves up the homer. The Tigers win the nitecap 8 - 2? behind Hal Newhouser's 18th win.
1947: After losing the first game to Detroit 7 - 1? the Browns take the nitecap 6 - 5? beating Hal Newhouser in relief.
For Newhouser? it is his first loss to the Browns after 15 consecutive wins.
1950: The Giants' Eddie Stanky is banished by umpire Lon Warneke for refusing to stop waving his arms in an attempt to distract Phillies' batter Andy Seminick. This is a reprise of a shuffle Stanky initiated on August 9th.
In the 4th? Stanky moves over behind second base and goes into a windup the same time as the pitcher. Giants manager Leo Durocher had agreed to await a league ruling on the tactic? but after Seminick knocks Hank Thompson unconscious in a collision at third base? Durocher turns Stanky loose.
In the 4th? Seminick reaches base on an error? then on a force at second base, he puts a linebacker block on Bill Rigney? Stanky's replacement? and both dugouts empty for a brawl. The Phils go on to win, 5 - 4, in 11 innings? on Stan Lopata's triple and a sac fly by Eddie Waitkus. The Giants protest Stanky's ouster to no avail.
1953: The Detroit Tigers signed Ray Scarborough as a free agent.
1953: At St. Louis? Ray Boone smashes his 4th grand slam of the year to tie a ML record? as the Tigers win 7 - 3 over the Browns.
1953: Playing without the injured Mickey Mantle - out for 10 days with a sprained knee - the Yankees explode for 28 hits off Washington pitching? two shy of the American League record. New York rolls to a 22 - 1 victory. Rookie Steve Kraly? relieving Whitey Ford? gives up a run to avert the largest shutout win in history. Ford has 4 hits? and Yogi Berra and Billy Martin each collect 5 RBIs. Hank Bauer scores 5 runs.
1953: Brooklyn slugger Duke Snider hits his second grand slam in three days? accounting for all the runs in the Dodgers' 4 - 0 win over the Giants. Carl Erskine allows New York just two hits.
1963: Stan Musial announces his retirement, effective at the end of the season, at the St. Louis Cardinals' annual team picnic.
1964: Mickey Mantle sets a major league record when hits a home run from both sides of the plate for the 10th time in his career. Mantle hits a left-handed homer off Ray Herbert over the 461-foot marker in centerfield that lands 15 rows into the bleachers, 502 feet from the plate.
1965: Don Demeter drives in 7 on a single, triple, and a grand slam in the Tigers' 11-1 win over the kansas city athletics.
1966: Willie Mays hits a game-ending home run to give Juan Marichal and the Giants a 1 - 0 win over Houston. Mike Cuellar serves up the 9th-inning homer.
1970: Judge Irving Ben Cooper rules against Curt Flood in his antitrust suit. Cooper says "Decisions of the Supreme Court are not lightly overruled... We find no general or widespread disregard of the extremely important position the player occupies... Clearly the preponderance of credible proof does not favor elimination of the reserve clause." However the judge says changes in the reserve clause should be made through negotiation, but denied Flood damages.
1974: Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford head a group of 6 inductees at Cooperstown.
1974: Nolan Ryan fans 19 batters in the California Angels' 4 - 2 win over the Boston Red Sox. Ryan breaks the American League record of 18 strikeouts set by Bob Feller in 1938 and ties the major league record set by Steve Carlton in 1969 and Tom Seaver in 1970. He also ties the major league record with 32 Ks in his last two games.
1980: Tiger Stadium is packed with 48?361 fans to see Mark Fidrych's return to the big leagues a 5 - 4 loss to the Red Sox. The 1976 American League Rookie of the Year will go 2-3 with a 5.73 ERA in what will be his final attempt to come back from injury? and his last ML season.
1984: Harmon Killebrew? Rick Ferrell? Don Drysdale? Pee Wee Reese? and Luis Aparicio are inducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown? New York.
1984: Tigers beat the royals 8 - 4. Evans triples, Rupert Jones homers.
1987: The Detroit Tigers, needing pitching help for the pennant drive, acquire Doyle Alexander from the Atlanta Braves for minor league pitcher John Smoltz. Alexander will go 10-1 for the Tigers, but Smoltz will turn out to be a perennial All-Star.
1987: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Darnell Coles to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Jim Morrison. The Detroit Tigers sent Morris Madden (August 12, 1987) to the Pittsburgh Pirates to complete the trade.
1990: Alan Trammell has four extra-base hits in one game, three doubles and a homer, for one of the best games of his career, but Tigers + Jack Morris lose to the indians.
1993: The Tigers defeat the Orioles 17 - 11? as C Chad Kreuter hits a grand slam. It marks the third consecutive game in which a Tiger has hit a grand slam? tying a major league record set by the Milwaukee Brewers in 1978. The two teams combine for 37 hits. Travis Fryman is the only one with 4 hits including 3 doubles.
1994: Major League Baseball players go on strike. For the first time in 90 years, the World Series will not be held.
2007: Magglio Ord??ez homers twice in the 2nd inning as the Tigers score eight against Dallas Braden. He becomes the second player in Detroit Tigers history to hit two home runs in an inning. All-time great rightfielder Al Kaline was the other back on April 17, 1955.
2008: The Detroit Tigers signed Freddy Garcia as a free agent.
2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Jason Waddell as a free agent.
2014: The Detroit Tigers signed Shawn Hill as a free agent.
2017: Tigers take the lead by 5, then fall behind by 5, then win on a walk-off 2-run home run by Justin Upton beating the twins 12 - 11.
Tigers players and managers birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hallma01.shtml
Marc Hall 1913-1914.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Fred_Hutchinson
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hutchfr01.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/hutchfr01.shtml
Fred Hutchinson 1939-1940, 1946-1953, manager 1952-1954.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lugour01.shtml
Urbano Lugo 1990.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Kyle_Lobstein
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lobstky01.shtml
Kyle Lobstein 2014-2015.
from Baseball Reference
