December 12 in Tigers and mlb history:
1887: A baseball reporters association is organized. It pledges to work to standardize scoring practices, especially in the gray area of stolen bases.
1900: The National League considers going back to 12 teams to counter American League moves into some cities. Club owners invite Ban Johnson to come to the NL meeting, but change their mind about compromise and leave the AL head outside the meeting room. The NL awards the AL's Minnesota and Kansas City territories to the new Western League, even before the AL officially abandons them. The NL agrees to hear the players in a public meeting, but rejects all their demands.
1906: The American League gives Ban Johnson a raise to $15,000 for the remaining four years of his contract.
1907: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ira Thomas from the New York Highlanders.
1911: A rift between the leagues develops over widespread charges of ticket speculation during the World Series, and accusations that officials of the Giants and A's were involved. The American League passes a resolution refusing to participate in another World Series until it has control of ticket sales in its own parks. The National Commission investigates the charge that speculators were given large blocks of tickets, but takes no action and releases no findings. The following spring, the Commission finds that much scalping occurred, but there is no evidence either team was involved, and peace is declared.
1922: Jake Ruppert agrees to buy out his partner Colonel Huston and gains full control of the Yankees.
1927: The National League reports more than five million attendance for the league in 1927, a new high.
1930: The Rules Committee of baseball issues a greatly revised code, reducing the number of rules by combining many. Not only is the sacrifice rule abolished but also the rule awarding a home runs when the ball bounces into the stands. "Bounce homers" will now be doubles. This had already been in effect in the American League but not the National League.
1933: At the major leagues' annual meeting, the owners vote Judge Landis another seven-year contract as commissioner. Will Harridge gets a new five-year pact as American League president.
1933: Connie Mack is still selling. First he sells Lefty Grove, the A's top winner in each of the past five seasons, along with Max Bishop and George Walberg, to the Boston Red Sox for $125,000 and two players, pitcher Bob Kline and infielder Rabbit Warstler.
Next, catcher Mickey Cochrane goes to Detroit, then George Earnshaw and backstop Johnny Pasek, just acquired from the Tigers, go to the White Sox for $20,000 and catcher Charlie Berry. Berry once led the NFL in scoring and will become a major league umpire in the 1940s.
The day will be known as "Black Tuesday" in Philadelphia.
1933: The Detroit Tigers traded Johnny Pasek and $100,000 to the Philadelphia Athletics for Mickey Cochrane.
1938: The Detroit Tigers traded Ed Selway (minors), George Archie, Tony Piet, Jo-Jo White and cash to Seattle (PCL) for Fred Hutchinson.
1940: The Boston Red Sox purchased Pete Fox from the Detroit Tigers.
1941: The Washington Senators traded Jimmy Bloodworth and Doc Cramer to the Detroit Tigers for Bruce Campbell and Frank Croucher.
1944: The Tigers swap infielder Joe Orengo to the Red Sox for Skeeter Webb, son-in-law of Detroit manager Steve O'Neill. O'Neill denies any knowledge of trade talks, saying "I read about it in the morning paper."
1946: The Detroit Tigers released George Caster.
1949: By a 7-1 vote, the American League rejects a proposal to bring back the legal spitball. The rules committee also alters the strike zone to the space between the armpits and the top of the knees. The new rule eliminates the batter's shoulders being within the strike zone.
1950: The owners vote to drop the bonus and high school rule which was designed to prevent the wealthier clubs from buying up all of the available talent. The rule required that all "bonus players" had to stay on the major league roster after one season in the minors.
1954: Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente lead the North to victory in the Puerto Rican Winter League's annual all-star fund-raiser. The Sporting News correspondent Pita Alvarez De La Vega gives the exuberant young duo's exploits some national exposure: "The league took a break from its pennant battle to stage the annual 'Three Kings' all-star game at Mayaguez. All proceeds went into a YMCA fund to buy gifts for the island's poor children in keeping with the old Latin tradition of the Three Kings bringing gifts on January 6... The All-Star North team, made up of players from the Santurce and Mayaguez clubs, won the game, 7 to 5. Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente hit home runs for the winners."
1957: The Detroit Tigers purchased Jim Delsing from the Chicago White Sox.
1957: The Detroit Tigers purchased George Spencer from the Chicago White Sox.
1975: The Tigers trade pitcher Mickey Lolich and outfielder Billy Baldwin to the Mets in exchange for outfielder Rusty Staub and pitcher Bill Laxton.
1976: The Detroit Tigers released Bill Freehan.
1980: The Detroit Tigers traded Dave Stegman to the San Diego Padres for Dennis Kinney.
1985: The Detroit Tigers traded Rich Monteleone to the Seattle Mariners for Darnell Coles.
1997: The Detroit Tigers signed Bip Roberts as a free agent.
1997: The Detroit Tigers released Kevin Jarvis.
1999: The Detroit Tigers sent Kimera Bartee to the Cincinnati Reds as part of a conditional deal.
2006: The Detroit Tigers signed Brandon Watson as a free agent.
2006: Alexis Gomez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2007: Chad Durbin of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2008: Aquilino Lopez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: The Detroit Tigers signed Chris Oxspring as a free agent.
2011: Will Rhymes of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2013: The Tigers sign P Joba Chamberlain to a one-year deal.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hennele01.shtml
Les Hennessy 1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Flea_Clifton
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cliftfl01.shtml
Flea Clifton 1934-1937.
Tigers players and announcers whopassed away:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Tyson
Ty Tyson announcer 1927-1953.
from Baseball Reference
