June 24 in Tigers and mlb history:
1905: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants beat Boston, 2 - 1, in 12 innings, with Christy Mathewson getting the win. With two outs in the 12th, Matty hits a fly ball to CF Rip Cannell, who drops the ball. Catcher Frank Bowerman, on first base, chugs around with the winning run.
1908: Honus Wagner does it all today, smacking a home run and double, then breaking a 3 - 3 tie with an 8th-inning single. He ends his scoring with a steal of home as the Pirates win, 5 - 3, over the Reds.
1913: Ty Cobb and a whole lot of straw hats.
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1914: Washington's Walter Johnson is en route to a 2 - 1 home win over the A's when newsboys come through the stands hawking the latest edition of the papers headlining the wedding that evening of the ace to Hazel Roberts. The fiancee is supposedly spotted by the crowd, but the real Ms. Roberts slips by unnoticed.
1928: Grover Alexander beats the Reds for the third time in eight days.
1933: Arky Vaughan hits for the cycle, as the Pirates beat the Dodgers, 15 - 3.
1934: After being hitless in his last 21 at bats, Babe Ruth hits a grand slam in a 5 - 0 Yankee win over the White Sox.
1936: Rookie Joe DiMaggio ties three major-league records in New York's 10-run 5th inning against the White Sox, hitting 2 home runs for 8 total bases. With 2 doubles, he equals the modern record of four long hits in a game. New York beats St. Louis, 18 - 4.
1938: View of Walter O. Briggs, owner of the Detroit Tigers, watching a baseball game.
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1938: Hank Greenberg hits a 3-run home run & a 2-run homer, his 19th & 20th of the season, to lead the Tigers to a 12-8 win over the Yankees.
Hammerin' Hank will go on to challenge Babe Ruth's season record of 60 home runs, finishing with 58.
1947: The Dodgers win, 4 - 2, over the Pirates, as Jackie Robinson swipes home for the first of 19 times in his career.
1950: Art Houtteman pitches Detroit to a 4 - 1 win over the Yankees. Yogi Berra's homer is the only Yankee score, as New York loses its 4th straight and 8th in 12 games. Detroit now leads the American League by three games.
1950: 19-year-old Willie Mays makes his minor league debut with the Trenton Giants of the Interstate League! "The Say Hey Kid" winds up hitting .353 BA in 81 games.
1953: The Braves sign 17-year-old Joey Jay from Middletown, Connecticut, making him the first Little League player to make it to the major leagues.
1955: In an 18 - 7 loss to the Tigers, Senator 18-year old rookie third baseman Harmon Killebrew hits his first major league home run off Billy Hoeft.
1955: Already down six, en route to an 8 - 2 drubbing by Milwaukee, the Dodgers debut Brooklyn-born bonus baby, Sandy Koufax. Working a scoreless but labor-intensive 5th and 6th, Koufax puts Braves on every base?via hit, walk and error (his own)?before recording his first major league out by blowing a 3-2 fastball past Bobby Thomson.
Writing more than a decade later, Koufax will recall this undeniably thrilling moment as "probably the worst thing that could have happened to me, getting my first out by striking out a big hitter; because that became my pattern for five years, trying to get out of trouble by throwing harder and harder and harder."
(Conversely, the 4-pitch walk which immediately preceded Thomson?issued to one Henry Louis Aaron?will, in almost the same breath, be viewed by Sandy as "probably the smartest thing I did all year. There have been many times since when I wished I had been wild enough to walk Henry Aaron. I'm usually backing up third as I am wishing it.")
1958: The Yankees erupt for five runs in the 4th inning off Early Wynn to beat the White Sox, 6 - 2, at Comiskey Park. Mickey Mantle's clout into the CF bleachers leads off the inning, followed by a single, walk and Jerry Lumpe's first major league home run, and a home run by Norm Siebern. Ryne Duren strikes out six of the last nine batters to preserve Bob Turley's win.
1959: The Detroit Tigers signed Don Bryant as an amateur free agent.
1960: Willie Mays hits two home runs, singles, steals home, and makes 10 putouts to lead the Giants in a 5 - 3 win at Cincinnati. Mays has three RBI and three runs scored.
1961: Rookie shortstop Dick McAuliffe hits a 2-run home run with 2 outs in the top of the 9th: Tigers beat the indians 5-4.
1962: A marathon between the Tigers and Yankees concludes in the 22nd inning when Jack Reed's home run - his only one in the big leagues - gives New York and Jim Bouton a 9 - 7 victory. Reed replaced Joe Pepitone in the 13th. For the Tigers, Phil Regan takes the loss and Rocky Colavito has seven hits. Bobby Richardson ties a mark by going to the plate 11 times. At an even seven hours, the game is the slowest extra-inning contest in league history and it is the longest game in innings in Yankee history.
1962: Led by a grand slam from Hank Foiles and four RBIs on two home runs from Frank Robinson, the Reds outslug the Dodgers, 12 - 10, at Dodger Stadium.
1967: Mickey Mantle breaks a 3 - 3 tie in the 9th with a home run off Detroit's Fred Gladding to give 9th-place New York a 4 - 3 win.
1968: After being benched the day before after a 1 for 20 slump, Detroit RF Jim Northrup becomes the 6th American League player to hit two grand slams in one game, connecting in the 5th inning off Eddie Fisher and in the 6th off Billy Rohr, as the Tigers bomb Cleveland, 14 - 3.
Denny McLain is the victor. First baseman Willie Smith pitches the last three innings, walking just one and allowing one hit and no runs.
Detroit's Don Wert is taken to the hospital following a 6th inning beaning which shatters his batting helmet. He will miss just a few games.
1969: Richie Allen is fined $2,500 and suspended indefinitely when he fails to appear for the Phillies twi-night doubleheader game with the Mets. Allen had gone to New Jersey in the morning to see a horse race and got caught in traffic trying to return. He will stay suspended until July 20th. Allen picked up a $1000 fine in May when, for two straight days, he reportedly arrived at the ballpark after the game had started. Without Allen, the Phils drop a pair, 2 - 1 and 5 - 0.
1971: The Mets' Tom Seaver smashes an 8th-inning homer off Montreal's Bill Stoneman to win his own game, 2 - 1.
1980: Richie Hebner hits a bases-loaded double and bases-loaded single for 6 rbi in the Tigers 9 - 4 win over the indians.
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1983: Milwaukee's Don Sutton strikes out Alan Bannister in the 8th inning of a 3 - 2 win over Cleveland to become the 8th pitcher in major league history with 3,000 career strikeouts.
1984: After missing two starts, Jack Morris (12-3) stops the Brewers, 7 - 1. The Tigers have drawn 165,000 fans for the 4-game series with Milwaukee. Ruppert "Rooftop" Jones hits a 3-run home run over the RF roof of Tiger Stadium, and Lance Parrish homers. Jack Morris pitches 6 one-hit innings for his 12th win. With 3 straight wins, the #Tigers (52-18) stretch their lead to 8.5 games.
1989: The Detroit Tigers signed Danny Bautista as an amateur free agent.
1991: California's Dave Winfield goes 5 for 5 and hits for the cycle as the Angels defeat Kansas City, 9 - 4. In so doing, he becomes the oldest player in history (39) to accomplish the feat.
1993: Carlton Fisk of the White Sox, plays his 2,226th and final major league game, surpassing Bob Boone's record of 2,225 for most games caught. Fisk reluctantly retires with 3,999 total bases, the most ever for a catcher. The Sox will exacerbate Fisk's bitterness by refusing to allow him into the locker room after the Sox make the playoffs this year. When the Sox retire Fisk's #72 in 1997, Fisk will request that Jerry Reinsdorf and GM Ron Schueler not be there for the ceremony, and when he goes into Cooperstown he will wear a Red Sox cap.
A clerical error about three games caught in 1981, in which Fisk relieved, initially gives him a total of 2,229 games caught. This error will appear on Fisk's Hall of Fame plaque when he is inducted, the 5th edition of Total Baseball, and the 1997 edition of The Sports Encyclopedia - Baseball. Other records books correctly show him with 2,226 games caught lifetime. SABR historian Wayne McElreavy and others note the discrepancy and the plaque and subsequent editions of the record books will correct the total to 2,226.
1998: The Detroit Tigers traded Dave Roberts and Tim Worrell to the Cleveland Indians for Geronimo Berroa.
2000: The Detroit Tigers released Allen McDill.
2000: The Tigers trim the Indians 14 - 8, in the second game of a day-night doubleheader behind OF Bobby Higginson's three home runs and six RBIs.
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2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Jimenez as an amateur free agent.
2014: The Detroit Tigers purchased Daniel Schlereth from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
2017: With his 2nd hit of the day, Adrian Beltre (2,964) passed Sam Crawford for 32nd on the all-time hit list. Next up: Sam Rice (2,985).
2019: Carlos Torres of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
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George Harper 1916-1918.
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Jack Burns 1903-1904.
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