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June 10 in Tigers and mlb history:
1902: Bobby Wallace slick-fielding St. Louis SS handles an American League record 17 chances in a 9-inning game while losing 5 - 4 to Boston. Wallace whose 25-year career will place him in the Hall of Fame has 11 assists and 6 putouts but makes 2 errors.
1903: Detroit SS Kid Elberfeld suspended for abusing an umpire is traded to the New York Highlanders for veteran infielders Herman Long 37 and Ernie Courtney. The Highlanders' first trade is a good one as "The Tabasco Kid"? currently hitting .341 will be a key ingredient in New York's rise as contenders in 1904. Elberfeld had also been accused by Tiger manager Ed Barrow of deliberately throwing games recently as a ploy to get himself traded.
1904: In the opener of the battle for first place at the Polo Grounds Christy Mathewson pitches a brilliant one-hitter to beat Chicago 5 - 0. The lone hit is Johnny Kling's 4th-inning single. The other action is provided by umpire Charlie Zimmer who ejects Sam Mertes on a strike call. He also thumbs John McGraw coaching at third base to the bench and sends the mute Dummy Taylor the first base coach to the clubhouse. One wag said later that Taylor was making too much noise.
1905: Andy Bruckmiller sent from Braddock (Ohio-Pennsylvania) to the Detroit Tigers.
1906: In Memphis, TN on a scouting trip Connie Mack says that Christy Mathewson's ineffectiveness can be traced back to a ligament sprain in his last game pitching against the A's, in last year's World Series. In the latter part of the game Matty grasped his arm after unleashing a fastball. Mack said players on the coaching lines heard the snap of something resembling the crack of a toy pistol. Mack's offer of $1700 to Memphis for SS Simon Nicholls was refused.
1909: Tigers George Mullin's winning streak reaches 11 with a 2 - 1 win over New York. On the 15th he will finally lose to the Athletics, 5 - 4.
1912: The Red Sox beat the Browns 3 - 2, and take the American League lead for good; they will finish 14 games ahead of Washington.
1921: Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees becomes the major leagues' career home run leader by hitting his 120th off Cleveland Indians pitcher Jim Bagby in the 3rd inning. The Indians win, 8 - 6. Roger Connor held the record until that time.
1922: In St. Louis Babe Ruth's 2-run homer in the 3rd off Urban Shocker ties the game. Shocker then plunks Frank Baker and a double single two errors on the same play and a sacrifice fly score 4 more. Shocker then sends Carl Mays sprawling on three straight pitches before walking him and fires his first pitch right at Whitey Witt. The Yanks score 6 off Shocker and another 6 off relievers to win 14 - 5. A foul fly in the 7th beans St. Louis owner Phil Ball sitting behind the dugout. He has a slight concussion and requires four stitches.
1933: He's not there for his hitting. P Lefty Grove strikes out 5 times a major league first in the 20th century but his Athletics beat the Yankees? 9 - 5. Lefty will hit .086 this year.
1934: The Athletics Doc Cramer hits for the cycle but the Yankees still beat the A's, 7 - 3, on Lou Gehrig's second grand slam of the year.
1937: The Detroit Tigers purchased Cliff Bolton from the Washington Senators.
1939: Frank Croucher hits 2 of his 7 career home runs, including a grand slam, in a 17-5 rout of Washington. Hank Greenberg has two 2-run homers in a doubleheader sweep.
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1944: Joe Nuxhall, at 15 years, 10 months and 11 days, becomes the youngest player in major league history when he pitches two-thirds of an inning for the Cincinnati Reds in an 18 - 0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. He manages to give up 5 walks and 2 hits before Bill McKechnie takes him out.
1945: The Detroit Tigers signed Paul Hinrichs as an amateur free agent.
1946: Yankee Stadium: 35-year-old Hank Greenberg clouts 13th HR of season to tie Charlie Keller for league lead as the Tigers maul Yankees 11-3. He'd pace majors with 44 HRs (& AL w/127 RBI), but full season career-low .277 led to sale to Pirates, for one more campaign.
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1952: In Boston St. Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck fires manager Rogers Hornsby saying "I made a mistake. I thought Hornsby had mellowed." That afternoon the players present Veeck with a trophy for freeing them from Rajah's tyranny. The Browns name Marty Marion as their player-manager.
1953: RF Jimmy Piersall of the Red Sox goes 6 for 6, with 5 singles - 3 of them infield hits - and a double, against five different pitchers to tie a major league mark in an 11 - 2 win over the Browns in the first game of a doubleheader. The Sox welcome Max Lanier to the American League by handing him his first loss. Piersall is hitless in game 2 a 3 - 2 Sox win and gets decked by Satchel Paige. Piersall made fun of Satchel during a game last year.
1957: Frank Lary gives up a 3rd-inning homer to Mickey Mantle in Detroit but still beats the Yankees? 9 - 4. Mantle now leads the American League with 15 homers. Tigers homerun hitters for the day include Harvey Kuenn, 2 from Charlie Maxwell, and Al Kaline.
1958: The Tigers fire manager Jack Tighe after a 21 and 28 start to the season? replacing him with Bill Norman.
1959: Cleveland Indians slugger Rocky Colavito clubs 4 HR's in one game vs. the Baltimore Orioles.
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1961: The Braves tie the National League record with 14 homers in 3 straight games (at least one in each game) as they outscore the Cubs at Wrigley Field, 9 - 5.
1963: Al Kaline hits his 200th career home run and 4 RBI helping the Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox 6-1.
1972: Hank Aaron's grand slam helps the Atlanta Braves to a 15 - 3 rout of the Phillies. It is Aaron's 649th home run, moving him ahead of Willie Mays into second place on the career list. It is also his 14th grand slam, tying Gil Hodges' National League record.
1974: The Detroit Tigers signed Tim Corcoran as an amateur free agent.
1976: The Detroit Tigers purchased Milt Wilcox from the Chicago Cubs.
He will pitch 9 seasons for the Tigers, come one out away from a perfect game in 1983, and be a key starter on the 1984 world champions.
1976: The Milwaukee Brewers traded Pedro Garcia to the Detroit Tigers for Gary Sutherland.
1980: The Detroit Tigers traded Dan Gonzales and Ed Putman to the Baltimore Orioles for Billy Presley (minors), Larry Anderson and Larry Johnson.
1984: The Detroit Tigers purchased Sid Monge from the San Diego Padres.
1984: At Baltimore, the Tigers sweep two from the Orioles? winning 10 - 4 and 8 - 0? before 51?764 fans.
Kirk Gibson has six hits and six RBIs in the two games? while Alan Trammell and Howard Johnson each have 5 hits. Lou Whitaker scores 5 runs in game 1. Reliever Doug Bair wins the opener and Dan Petry allows just 3 hits in the nitecap win.
The Tigers record now is at 43 and 14, as they continue to steamroll through the league on their way to an historic season.
1997: A's turn 5 double plays & Damon Mashore throws out 3 runners at the plate, but Tigers still win 6-4 on the strength of home runs from Higginson and Easley, and 3 2/3 innings from the bullpen.
1998: Yankee OF Tim Raines steals the 800th base of his career in New York's 6 - 2 win over the Expos. He is the 5th player in history to reach that milestone.
1999: The Detroit Tigers signed Pat Lennon as a free agent.
2000: Darin Erstad hits a double in the Anaheim Angels' 10 - 3 win over Arizona. With a major league-leading 100 hits in 61 games, Erstad becomes the fastest to reach the 100-hit mark since Heinie Manush did it in 60 games for the 1934 Washington Senators.
2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Pat Lennon as a free agent.
2008: The Detroit Tigers signed Brian Rogers as a free agent.
2008: Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the 6th player in major league history to hit 600 home runs when he connects off Mark Hendrickson of the Florida Marlins. He joins a select club counting only Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Sammy Sosa as members.
2011: Tony La Russa manages his 5,000th game in the majors. Only Connie Mack (with 7,755) had reached that number before him.
2015: The Detroit Tigers drafted Kyle Dowdy in the 12th round of the 2015 amateur draft. Player signed June 16, 2015.
2015: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jackson Kowar in the 40th round of the 2015 amateur draft, but was not signed.
2016: The Detroit Tigers drafted Kyle Funkhouser in the 4th round of the 2016 amateur draft. Player signed June 21, 2016.
2016: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bryan Garcia in the 6th round of the 2016 amateur draft. Player signed June 30, 2016.
2016: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jacob Robson in the 8th round of the 2016 amateur draft. Player signed June 16, 2016.
2018: Jeimer Candelario walked off the Tigers in the 12th against Cleveland, with a great call by Dan & an appearance by the Goose. Detroit would win 5 of their next 7 to pull within 2.5 games of a playoff spot before the wheels fell off on the season.
2020: Because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Amateur Draft is held virtually and is limited to five rounds. As no amateur baseball has been played since March, college players who had already received exposure in previous years dominate the first round, with Arizona State 1B Spencer Torkelson chosen first overall by the Tigers.
2020: The Detroit Tigers drafted Spencer Torkelson in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 2020 amateur draft. Player signed June 30, 2020.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Hank Foiles 1960.
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Elias Sosa 1982.
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Al Alburquerque 2011-2015.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Charlie Fuchs 1942.
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1902: Bobby Wallace slick-fielding St. Louis SS handles an American League record 17 chances in a 9-inning game while losing 5 - 4 to Boston. Wallace whose 25-year career will place him in the Hall of Fame has 11 assists and 6 putouts but makes 2 errors.
1903: Detroit SS Kid Elberfeld suspended for abusing an umpire is traded to the New York Highlanders for veteran infielders Herman Long 37 and Ernie Courtney. The Highlanders' first trade is a good one as "The Tabasco Kid"? currently hitting .341 will be a key ingredient in New York's rise as contenders in 1904. Elberfeld had also been accused by Tiger manager Ed Barrow of deliberately throwing games recently as a ploy to get himself traded.
1904: In the opener of the battle for first place at the Polo Grounds Christy Mathewson pitches a brilliant one-hitter to beat Chicago 5 - 0. The lone hit is Johnny Kling's 4th-inning single. The other action is provided by umpire Charlie Zimmer who ejects Sam Mertes on a strike call. He also thumbs John McGraw coaching at third base to the bench and sends the mute Dummy Taylor the first base coach to the clubhouse. One wag said later that Taylor was making too much noise.
1905: Andy Bruckmiller sent from Braddock (Ohio-Pennsylvania) to the Detroit Tigers.
1906: In Memphis, TN on a scouting trip Connie Mack says that Christy Mathewson's ineffectiveness can be traced back to a ligament sprain in his last game pitching against the A's, in last year's World Series. In the latter part of the game Matty grasped his arm after unleashing a fastball. Mack said players on the coaching lines heard the snap of something resembling the crack of a toy pistol. Mack's offer of $1700 to Memphis for SS Simon Nicholls was refused.
1909: Tigers George Mullin's winning streak reaches 11 with a 2 - 1 win over New York. On the 15th he will finally lose to the Athletics, 5 - 4.
1912: The Red Sox beat the Browns 3 - 2, and take the American League lead for good; they will finish 14 games ahead of Washington.
1921: Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees becomes the major leagues' career home run leader by hitting his 120th off Cleveland Indians pitcher Jim Bagby in the 3rd inning. The Indians win, 8 - 6. Roger Connor held the record until that time.
1922: In St. Louis Babe Ruth's 2-run homer in the 3rd off Urban Shocker ties the game. Shocker then plunks Frank Baker and a double single two errors on the same play and a sacrifice fly score 4 more. Shocker then sends Carl Mays sprawling on three straight pitches before walking him and fires his first pitch right at Whitey Witt. The Yanks score 6 off Shocker and another 6 off relievers to win 14 - 5. A foul fly in the 7th beans St. Louis owner Phil Ball sitting behind the dugout. He has a slight concussion and requires four stitches.
1933: He's not there for his hitting. P Lefty Grove strikes out 5 times a major league first in the 20th century but his Athletics beat the Yankees? 9 - 5. Lefty will hit .086 this year.
1934: The Athletics Doc Cramer hits for the cycle but the Yankees still beat the A's, 7 - 3, on Lou Gehrig's second grand slam of the year.
1937: The Detroit Tigers purchased Cliff Bolton from the Washington Senators.
1939: Frank Croucher hits 2 of his 7 career home runs, including a grand slam, in a 17-5 rout of Washington. Hank Greenberg has two 2-run homers in a doubleheader sweep.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaJ6fhkU...pg&name=medium
1944: Joe Nuxhall, at 15 years, 10 months and 11 days, becomes the youngest player in major league history when he pitches two-thirds of an inning for the Cincinnati Reds in an 18 - 0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. He manages to give up 5 walks and 2 hits before Bill McKechnie takes him out.
1945: The Detroit Tigers signed Paul Hinrichs as an amateur free agent.
1946: Yankee Stadium: 35-year-old Hank Greenberg clouts 13th HR of season to tie Charlie Keller for league lead as the Tigers maul Yankees 11-3. He'd pace majors with 44 HRs (& AL w/127 RBI), but full season career-low .277 led to sale to Pirates, for one more campaign.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaKBc0GU...pg&name=medium
1952: In Boston St. Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck fires manager Rogers Hornsby saying "I made a mistake. I thought Hornsby had mellowed." That afternoon the players present Veeck with a trophy for freeing them from Rajah's tyranny. The Browns name Marty Marion as their player-manager.
1953: RF Jimmy Piersall of the Red Sox goes 6 for 6, with 5 singles - 3 of them infield hits - and a double, against five different pitchers to tie a major league mark in an 11 - 2 win over the Browns in the first game of a doubleheader. The Sox welcome Max Lanier to the American League by handing him his first loss. Piersall is hitless in game 2 a 3 - 2 Sox win and gets decked by Satchel Paige. Piersall made fun of Satchel during a game last year.
1957: Frank Lary gives up a 3rd-inning homer to Mickey Mantle in Detroit but still beats the Yankees? 9 - 4. Mantle now leads the American League with 15 homers. Tigers homerun hitters for the day include Harvey Kuenn, 2 from Charlie Maxwell, and Al Kaline.
1958: The Tigers fire manager Jack Tighe after a 21 and 28 start to the season? replacing him with Bill Norman.
1959: Cleveland Indians slugger Rocky Colavito clubs 4 HR's in one game vs. the Baltimore Orioles.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyRAe4HWYAA_f8a?format=png&name=small
1961: The Braves tie the National League record with 14 homers in 3 straight games (at least one in each game) as they outscore the Cubs at Wrigley Field, 9 - 5.
1963: Al Kaline hits his 200th career home run and 4 RBI helping the Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox 6-1.
1972: Hank Aaron's grand slam helps the Atlanta Braves to a 15 - 3 rout of the Phillies. It is Aaron's 649th home run, moving him ahead of Willie Mays into second place on the career list. It is also his 14th grand slam, tying Gil Hodges' National League record.
1974: The Detroit Tigers signed Tim Corcoran as an amateur free agent.
1976: The Detroit Tigers purchased Milt Wilcox from the Chicago Cubs.
He will pitch 9 seasons for the Tigers, come one out away from a perfect game in 1983, and be a key starter on the 1984 world champions.
1976: The Milwaukee Brewers traded Pedro Garcia to the Detroit Tigers for Gary Sutherland.
1980: The Detroit Tigers traded Dan Gonzales and Ed Putman to the Baltimore Orioles for Billy Presley (minors), Larry Anderson and Larry Johnson.
1984: The Detroit Tigers purchased Sid Monge from the San Diego Padres.
1984: At Baltimore, the Tigers sweep two from the Orioles? winning 10 - 4 and 8 - 0? before 51?764 fans.
Kirk Gibson has six hits and six RBIs in the two games? while Alan Trammell and Howard Johnson each have 5 hits. Lou Whitaker scores 5 runs in game 1. Reliever Doug Bair wins the opener and Dan Petry allows just 3 hits in the nitecap win.
The Tigers record now is at 43 and 14, as they continue to steamroll through the league on their way to an historic season.
1997: A's turn 5 double plays & Damon Mashore throws out 3 runners at the plate, but Tigers still win 6-4 on the strength of home runs from Higginson and Easley, and 3 2/3 innings from the bullpen.
1998: Yankee OF Tim Raines steals the 800th base of his career in New York's 6 - 2 win over the Expos. He is the 5th player in history to reach that milestone.
1999: The Detroit Tigers signed Pat Lennon as a free agent.
2000: Darin Erstad hits a double in the Anaheim Angels' 10 - 3 win over Arizona. With a major league-leading 100 hits in 61 games, Erstad becomes the fastest to reach the 100-hit mark since Heinie Manush did it in 60 games for the 1934 Washington Senators.
2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Pat Lennon as a free agent.
2008: The Detroit Tigers signed Brian Rogers as a free agent.
2008: Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the 6th player in major league history to hit 600 home runs when he connects off Mark Hendrickson of the Florida Marlins. He joins a select club counting only Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Sammy Sosa as members.
2011: Tony La Russa manages his 5,000th game in the majors. Only Connie Mack (with 7,755) had reached that number before him.
2015: The Detroit Tigers drafted Kyle Dowdy in the 12th round of the 2015 amateur draft. Player signed June 16, 2015.
2015: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jackson Kowar in the 40th round of the 2015 amateur draft, but was not signed.
2016: The Detroit Tigers drafted Kyle Funkhouser in the 4th round of the 2016 amateur draft. Player signed June 21, 2016.
2016: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bryan Garcia in the 6th round of the 2016 amateur draft. Player signed June 30, 2016.
2016: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jacob Robson in the 8th round of the 2016 amateur draft. Player signed June 16, 2016.
2018: Jeimer Candelario walked off the Tigers in the 12th against Cleveland, with a great call by Dan & an appearance by the Goose. Detroit would win 5 of their next 7 to pull within 2.5 games of a playoff spot before the wheels fell off on the season.
2020: Because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Amateur Draft is held virtually and is limited to five rounds. As no amateur baseball has been played since March, college players who had already received exposure in previous years dominate the first round, with Arizona State 1B Spencer Torkelson chosen first overall by the Tigers.
2020: The Detroit Tigers drafted Spencer Torkelson in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 2020 amateur draft. Player signed June 30, 2020.
Tigers players birthdays:
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