May 17 in Tigers and mlb history:
1903: Cool Papa Bell is born in Starkville, Mississippi. Bell will enjoy a successful career in the Negro Leagues from 1922 to 1946. An outfielder with blazing speed and the first Mexican League Triple Crown winner, Bell will be selected to the Hall of Fame in 1974.
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1912: Historic Fenway Park in Boston is officially dedicated, one month after hosting its first game, as the Red Sox host the Chicago White Sox. Playing in front of an overflow crowd, the Red Sox lose the game, 5 - 2.
1913: The Washington Senators purchased 5 time 20 game winner George Mullin from the Detroit Tigers.
1919: The Detroit Tigers purchased Dutch Leonard from the New York Yankees for $12,000.
1925: At League Park, Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians collects his 3,000th hit off Tom Zachary of the Washington Senators.
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1932: A very happy birthday to a Tigers legend and pioneer, Ozzie Virgil, who broke the Tigers' color barrier in 1958. Virgil was the first native of the Dominican Republic to play in the major leagues.
1934: Rogers Hornsby hits his 300th career home run. He's the first National Leaguer to do so, and third overall, behind Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
1939: The first baseball game ever televised - Princeton against Columbia at the Baker Bowl - is watched by a handful of viewers via W2XBS in New York City. Bill Stern announces the ten-inning victory of visiting Princeton, 2 - 1. Reviewing the game the next day, the New York Times reports: "it is difficult to see how this sort of thing can catch the public fancy."
1941: The city of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania declare a legal holiday to honor Philadelphia Athletics manager on Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park.
1945: For the fourth time in four days, every American League game is postponed because of rain.
1957: Billy Hoeft celebrated turning 25 with a complete game 4-1 win at Yankee Stadium. HOFers Mantle & Berra were a combined 1 for 8 off Hoeft, who benefited from HRs off the bats of Charlie Maxwell, Bill Tuttle & Future HOF'er Al Kaline.
1957: The Detroit Tigers released Eddie Robinson.
1961: Roger Maris hits his first home run of the season at Yankee Stadium (and fourth overall) on his way to a major league season-record 61.
1961: Tigers 9 - Orioles 1. Al Kaline hits a double & a triple to drive in 3. Bill Bruton and Rocky Colavito have 3 hits each. Phil Regan pitches a 6-hit complete game. Tigers 3rd straight win: Tigers are 23-9, up by 5 Games in the AL.
1963: A doubleheader between the Tigers and Senators in Washington was cancelled in the second inning of the first game after a 1 hour and 12 minute rain delay. In the first inning, the Senators? Bobo Osborne hit a grand slam off Don Mossi over the right field fence.
In the top of the second, Al Kaline hit a solo homer off Bennie Daniels into the Washington bullpen. Those two blasts accounted for all the runs in the game when the rains came to wash it all away.
Like the home run he lost on June 1, 1958, this one could have given Kaline 400 for his career.
1968: Jim Northrup hits a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 9th and the Tigers beat the senators 7 - 3.
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1970: During a 7 - 6 Atlanta loss to Cincinnati in the second game of a doubleheader, Hank Aaron collects his 3,000th career hit and his 500th home run. Aaron, the ninth man to amass 3,000 hits, is the first to also have 500 home runs.
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1972: Tom Haller hits a 3-run home run for his first hit as a Tiger. Mickey Lolich pitches a 4-hitter against the Orioles at #TigerStadium in 6 -1 win.
1979: The wind is really blowing out at Wrigley as the Cubs and Phillies join in a wild ten-inning slugfest won 23-22 by the Phillies, Mike Schmidt's two home runs include the game-winner in the tenth inning.
Dave Kingman watches one of his three home runs he hit in the Cubs loss to the Phillies in the 23-22 game. Eleven home runs were hit in the game.
1992: Catcher Gary Carter, back with the Montreal Expos, joins Bob Boone and Carlton Fisk in the exclusive 2,000 games caught club.
1998: David Wells pitches the 13th perfect game in modern major league history as the Yankees beat Minnesota, 4 - 0. Wells, whose "perfecto" is the first by a Yankees pitcher since Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series, also sets an American League record by retiring 37 batters in a row, dating back to his start on May 12th against Kansas City.
2000: Cal Ripken passes up Hank Aaron by grounding into his 329th double play, the new record. Ripken will retire with 350 GIDP, which is still the record.
2000: The Detroit Tigers released Jim Poole.
2001: Ike Brown dies from cancer in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 59. A popular member of the Detroit Tigers for six seasons, Brown was one of the last Negro League players still active in the majors during the 1970s, and the last to make his major league debut. The versatile Brown played every infield and outfield position but center field during his Tigers stint.
2011: Harmon Killebrew, one of the great sluggers of the 1960s with 573 career home runs, passes away from cancer at 74 in Scottsdale, AZ. The gentle and universally-liked "Killer", who spent the bulk of his career with the Minnesota Twins, was the 1969 AL MVP and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1984.
2014: The Detroit Tigers released Nate Robertson.
2014: The Detroit Tigers released Jhan Marinez.
2016: Tigers score 7 in the 7th to win 7-2 over the twins.
2017: The Detroit Tigers released David Lough.
2018: Tigers score 2 runs on a single by Jose Iglesias in the 8th inning to win 3-2 in Seattle.
2022: The Astros tie a major league record by homering five times in the 2nd inning of their 13 - 4 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. All five long balls are hit off Nathan Eovaldi. They are the work of Yordan Alvarez; Kyle Tucker, with a two-run shot; Jeremy Pe?a; Michael Brantley, who connects with two men on base; and Yuli Gurriel who gives the Astros a 9-1 lead with the shot that finally ends Eovaldi's outing. Tucker adds a second homer later in the game and Rafael Devers and J.D. Martinez also go deep of Boston. The Astros are the eighth team to hit five homers in an inning, and Eovaldi is the third pitcher to give up all five.
Tigers players birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Billy Hoeft. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Billy Hoeft 1952-1959.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Ozzie Virgil. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Ozzie Virgil 1958, 1960-1961.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Carlos Peña. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Carlos Pena 2002-2005.
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Signed Al Kaline to his contract after high school graduation, and other key players, Vic Wertz, Ray Oyler, Don Wert, and Jim Northrup for the Tigers.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Dixie Walker. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Dixie Walker 1938-1939.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bill Wight. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Bill Wight 1952-1953.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Ike Brown. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Ike Brown 1969-1974.
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