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July 20 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: Hall of Famer Heinie Manush was born this day in Tuscumbia, AL.
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1911: Frank Schulte hits for the cycle to help the Cubs tip the Phils, 4 - 3. "Wildfire" will end the year as the first player ever to top the 20 mark in doubles, triples, homers, and stolen bases. Only Willie Mays in 1957 will match him this century; the feat will be matched twice in 2007, by the Tigers Curtis Granderson and later by the phillies Jimmy Rollins.

1913: The Tigers send 38-year-old George Mullin (1-6), a five times 20-game winner, to Washington. Mullin pitched a no-hitter a year ago on his birthday.

1916: The Tigers beat the 2nd-place Red Sox 3 - 2, in 13 innings when Ty Cobb scores on a Ralph Young single.
Cobb reaches on an infield chop and a throwing error by Babe Ruth, who takes over for Rube Foster in the 9th with the score tied 2 - 2.

1922: At Sportsman's Park, Rogers Hornsby belts a two-out 9th inning home run with two men on the give the Cards a 7 - 6 win over Boston. It is the Rajah's 25th home run of the year, breaking Gavvy Cravath's National League home run mark (post-1900). In two weeks, Hornsby will break the record of 27 homers set in 1884 by Chicago's Ned Williamson.

1938: Happy Birthday to Hall of Famer Tony Oliva born this day in Pinar del R?o, Cuba.
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1938: Johnny Mize of the Cardinals has three home runs in a game for the second time this season, in a game against the Giants.

1942: The Philadelphia Athletics purchased Eric McNair from the Detroit Tigers.

1944: 16 years after he retired from baseball holding 90 Major League and American League records, Ty Cobb appears at the Pacific Coast League All-Star Game.
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1947: Tigers set an attendance record of 58,369 for a doubleheader against the Yankees at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium. Tigers sweep the doubleheader, including a 12-11 win in 11 innings in Game 2.

1947: Hank Thompson plays 2B and Willard Brown CF for the St. Louis Browns against the Red Sox. It marks the first time that two black players appear in the same major league lineup.

1948: An unprecedented 10-game suspension and $500 fine of an umpire, the veteran Bill McGowan, is announced by American League President Will Harridge following a confrontation in the Washington-Cleveland game. Tired of Senator pitcher Ray Scarborough continually complaining about strike calls, McGowan threw a ball-and-strike indicator at him. After that, he ejects Nats manager Joe Kuhel and several coaches. Kuhel also lodged a protest after yesterday's 11th-inning loss when Ed Stewart was thrown out at home in the 10th. When Stewart argued the call with plate ump Joe Paparella, McGowan threw a ball at Stewart.

1958: Jim Bunning of the Tigers pitches a 3 - 0 no-hitter over the Red Sox and strikes out 12. Only two walks and a hit batsman mar Bunning's performance as he wins his sixth game in seven decisions (8-6). Only one hard hit ball by Ted Williams was caught on the run with the usual amazing catch by RF Al Kaline.
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1960: At Municipal Stadium, with Cleveland in the lead, 8 - 2, Mickey Mantle golfs a Gary Bell pitch over the auxiliary scoreboard into the distant upper deck in RF, matching Luke Easter as the only players to reach that spot. Cleveland holds on for an 8 - 6 win.

1961: Rocky Colavito hits 2 home runs in a 15-8 win over the Orioles. Tigers score 8 in the 7th. Tigers retake first place.
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1962: The Detroit Tigers purchased Don Buddin from the Houston Colt .45's.

1965: Mel Stottlemyre of the Yankees becomes the first pitcher to hit an inside-the-park grand slam since Deacon Phillippe did it for the Pirates in 1910. Stottlemyre's bases-loaded drive in the 5th off Bill Monbouquette assures him a 6 - 3 victory over the Red Sox.

1969: San Francisco's Gaylord Perry connects for his first hit of the year, and his first major league homer, to beat the Dodgers, 7 - 3. The victim of Perry's dinger is Claude Osteen.
Last year, Alvin Dark had remarked to sports writer Harry Jupiter about Perry's hitting, "They'll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run." Perry's homer comes about 20 minutes after the club house receives word that Neil Armstrong has set foot on the moon.
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1976: Hank Aaron hits the 755th, and last, home run of his career, connecting off Dick Drago of the California Angels. Jerry Augustine wins for the Brewers, 6 - 2.


1976: Mark Fidrych improves to 11-2 in a 8 - 3 win over the Twins: his 12th complete game in 13 starts.
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1979: The Montreal Expos traded a player to be named later and cash to the Detroit Tigers for Rusty Staub.
The Montreal Expos sent Randall Schafer (minors) (December 3, 1979) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

1984: Tigers beat the Rangers 3 - 1. Dave Rozema wins his 7th of the year.
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1987: Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly ties a major league mark as he is credited with 22 putouts in one game. The feat was last accomplished in the American League by Hal Chase in 1906.

1998: The Detroit Tigers released Billy Ripken.

1998: The Tigers take the first game of a doubleheader against the Yankees by a 4 - 3 score in 17 innings.
The New Yorkers bounce back to take the nightcap by the identical score. The 26 innings take nearly nine hours to play.

2000: Major League Baseball offers to rehire 10 of the 22 umpires let go last September. The offer stands only as part of a new labor contract, and only if the umpires' old union agrees to settle its grievance with baseball.

2011: The Tigers send a couple of Class A players Antonio Cruz (minors) and Julio Rodriguez (minors) to Kansas City in return for 3B Wilson Betemit, who has become redundant since top prospect Mike Moustakas was called up last month.
Brandon Inge, Detroit's starter at 3B, is hitting only .177.

2012: Chipper Jones becomes the all-time leader for RBIs by a player who was primarily a third baseman with a two-run single in the 8th inning; he was tied with George Brett at 1,598; Mike Schmidt continues to hold the record for RBI collected when actually playing at the hot corner.

2012: The United States Postal Service issues a set of four commemorative stamps depicting Hall of Famers Ted Williams, Larry Doby, Joe DiMaggio and Willie Stargell. The issuance ceremonies are held in Cooperstown, NY as part of the Hall's annual induction week-end.

2014: The Detroit Tigers released Trevor Crowe.

2016: Justin Verlander strikes out 9, passing Fernando Valenzuela on the all-time strikeout list in a loss to the twins.
JV passed Fernando Valenzuela (2,074), Ryan Dempster (2,075) and Tim Hudson (2,080) in today's start.

Tigers players and executives birthdays:

Red McKee 1913-1916.

Mutt Wilson 1920.

Heinie Manush 1923-1927.

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Mike Ilitch owner 1992-2017.

Mickey Stanley 1964-1978.

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July 21 in Tigers and mlb history:

1881: Hall of Famer Johnny Evers was born this day in Troy, NY.
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1892: In a match up of 300-game winners at Philadelphia Baseball Grounds, Phillies submariner Tim Keefe sinks Jim "Pud" Galvin and the Browns 2 - 0. The next time two National League pitchers with 300 or more victories will face each other will occur in 2005 when Greg Maddux of the Cubs beats Astros ace Roger Clemens at Minute Maid Park, 3 - 2.

1902: Roscoe Miller jumped from the Detroit Tigers to the New York Giants.

1915: Babe Ruth pitches and bats the Red Sox to a 4 - 2 win over the host St. Louis Browns. Ruth is 4 for 4 with a tremendous homer and two doubles, and knocks in three runs. He scatters five hits with the two St. Louis runs coming on Heinie Wagner errors.

1919: Babe Ruth hits a home run over the right field wall at Navin Field (Tiger Stadium). Ty Cobb has 3 infield hits off Ruth in the Tigers' 6-2 win.

1926: Tris Speaker hits his 700th career double in the Indians' 6 - 0 win over the Athletics. Speaker will finish his career with a record 792 doubles.

1928: Jimmie Foxx hits the longest drive ever seen out of Shibe Park as the A's take two from St. Louis, increasing their lead over the third-place Browns to 10 games.

1936: Mickey Cochrane has a relapse, and Del Baker again takes charge of the Tigers. Detroit takes a pair from the visiting A's winning 8 - 0 behind Tommy Bridges, and 9 - 8 as Schoolboy Rowe wins in relief. The Tigers score a pair in the 8th inning when, with the bases loaded, Mickey Owen hits into a double play. Goose Goslin scores the tying run and Gee Walker, who reaches third base on the play, scores when 1B Chubby Dean is caught napping.

1937: Rogers Hornsby is fired as manager of the St. Louis Browns for playing the horses; Jim Bottomley takes over.

1939: Toronto (International) purchased Jim Walkup from the Detroit Tigers.

1945: The Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics battle to a 1 - 1 tie in 24 innings. Les Mueller hurls 19 2/3 innings for the Tigers. No hurler has since matched this endurance feat.

1956: In a 13 - 6 defeat to the Cardinals, Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese becomes one of five active players to collect 2,000 hits and teammate Junior Gilliam sets a major league record by handling 12 assists at second base.

1959: Under intense public pressure and the Massachusetts Committee Against Discrimination investigation, the Red Sox become the last club to integrate. Fourteen years after the club passes on Jackie Robinson, despite a successful tryout in 1945, Elijah 'Pumpsie' Green pinch runs and plays shortstop to become the first black to play for the Red Sox. Tomorrow Green will go 0 for 3 against Early Wynn.
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1960: Robin Roberts pitches his third career one-hitter, and the third one-hitter of the season in new Candlestick Park. Felipe Alou spoils Roberts' no-hit bid in the 5th inning of a 3 - 0 Philadelphia win. 3B Joe Morgan fields the hit, but falls down and cannot make a throw.

1961: Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris slam back-to-back home runs in the 1st inning for New York, but it takes a two-out, 9th-inning pinch-hit grand slam by Johnny Blanchard to finally subdue the Red Sox, 11 - 8, at Fenway Park. The pinch slam is the American League's 6th of the season, a new record.

1961: The Baltimore Orioles traded Frank House to the Detroit Tigers for Harry Chiti.

1963: Jerry Lynch's major league record-tying 14th pinch-hit home run, a three-run shot off the Cubs' Lindy McDaniel in the 9th inning, ties the game, and the Pirates win, 6 - 5, in 14 innings. The Cubs take the opener, 5 - 1.

1963: The usually mild-mannered Dodger manager Walter Alston is thrown out of both games of a doubleheader as the Braves sweep a twin bill from the Dodgers for the first and only time in Milwaukee, 7 - 2 and 13 - 7. To make matters worse, the Los Angeles skipper has beer thrown in his face by a hometown fan as he leaves the second game.

1965: Willie Horton hits a 3-run home run and drives in 5 on the day in the Tigers' 10-5 win over Cleveland at Tiger Stadium.
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1969: A gala All-Star Game banquet in Washington is one of baseball's great events. An all-time team and all-time living team are announced. Babe Ruth is selected Greatest All-Time Player, and Joe DiMaggio, Greatest Living Player.

1972: The Dodgers release P Hoyt Wilhelm, ending his Hall of Fame career two days before his 49th birthday. Wilhelm appeared in 1,070 games, the most of any major league pitcher to that point.
He is also the last World War II veteran to play in the majors. He survived the Battle of the Bulge, suffering a permanent neck wound in the action.

1973: Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron hits a Ken Brett fastball into the left-centerfield stands for a two-run home run during an 8 - 4 loss to the Phillies.
It is career home run number 700 for Aaron, only the second player to reach that milestone, after Babe Ruth.


1984: Tigers 7 - Rangers 6. Sid Monge scatters 3 hits over 4 innings of relief. Tigers score 5 in the 5th on RBIs by Ruppert Jones, Chet Lemon, & Howard Johnson. Willie Hernandez gets his 19th save. Tigers are 65-29.

1992: Randy Johnson strikes out 13 batters in 6 innings, but gives up 6 runs - 3 earned - in losing to Detroit, 6 - 2. Frank Tanana is the winner. It is Johnson's 8th loss in a row, the longest losing streak for an American League starter this year.

1993: In Minnesota's win over Detroit, Tony Phillips goes 0 for 4 with two strikeouts against two Twins pitchers. It is his only game without a hit, walk or hit by pitch in a string of 101 games.

1997: The Detroit Tigers released Jose Bautista.

2007: The Pittsburgh Pirates retire Paul Waner's number 11. It is the 10th retired number in the history of the franchise and the first in 10 years. The last player to wear the number was Humberto Cota, earlier in the season.

2007: Jamie Moyer and David Wells face off. The two combine for 88 years and 307 days of age, making it the second-oldest matchup of starting pitchers in major league history. The only older duel was between Don Sutton and Phil Niekro in June of 1987.

2008: The Detroit Tigers released Fernando Seguignol.

2008: The Tigers beat the Royals 19 - 4. It is their third time scoring 19 or more runs this season, the first time a major league team had done that since the 1950 Red Sox. Miguel Cabrera drives in six runs and Matt Joyce five in the rout.
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2017: Victor Martinez hits two home runs in the Tigers' 6-3 win in Minnesota.

2019: The 2019 Hall of Fame Class is inducted in Cooperstown, NY, with six former players being honored: Harold Baines, Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina, Mariano Rivera and Lee Smith. All are present, save for Halladay, who passed away in a plane crash in 2017 and, who is represented by his wife, Brandy. Rivera, the first player to be elected unanimously to the Hall, gets the honor of speaking last, befitting his status as the greatest closer in history.

2019: The Detroit Tigers signed Edwin Jackson as a free agent.

2020: The Detroit Tigers released Hector Santiago.

2021: The Detroit Tigers released Nomar Mazara.

2024: The Hall of Fame inducts its four newest members, constituting the Class of 2024, at its annual ceremony held in Cooperstown, NY. Honored today are 1B Todd Helton, C/1B Joe Mauer, 3B Adrian Beltre and manager Jim Leyland.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

Kimera Bartee 1996-1999, coach 2021.

Denny Harriger 1998.

Tigers players or managers who passed away:

Jim McGarr 1912.

Hughie Wise 1930.

Ralph Houk manager 1974-1978.

Mike Ivie 1982-1983.

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