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September 27 in Tigers and mlb history:
1908: The Tigers take over first place with a Sunday 5 - 2 win over the A's behind righty George Mullin.
1912: Eddie Plank goes 19 innings for the A's against Bob Groom and Walter Johnson of the Nationals, and takes a 5 - 4 loss when Eddie Collins' wild throw lets the winning run score. Johnson relieves Bob Groom at the end of the 9th, and pitches 10 innings of scoreless relief.
1917: The Red Sox play a benefit game against an American League all-star team and Babe Ruth and Rube Foster combine for a 2 - 0 shutout.
The AL squad features Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and Joe Jackson in the outfield.
More than $14,000 is raised for the family of sports writer Tim Murnane, who died February 13th. Murnane had played and managed in Boston in the 19th century. Actress Fanny Brice helps sell programs and former heavyweight champ John L. Sullivan coaches 3B for the Sox. Ruth wins the fungo hitting contest with a drive of 402 feet, while Joe Jackson has the longest throw at an impressive 396 feet.
1925: In a doubleheader split with the Braves in St. Louis, the Cards' player-manager, Rogers Hornsby, hits his 38th and 39th home runs of the year, along with a single, double, and triple to push his average to .403. In batting practice tomorrow, Hornsby will foul a ball off his foot splitting his toenail, and will sit the last three games. The Rajah calls reporters into the clubhouse to view his bloody toe, "because some of those in the East may say I'm stallin' because I want to save my .400 average."
Hornsby will be the only player-manager to win the triple crown, which he does by topping .400 for the 3rd time in four years, while his 39 home runs and 143 RBI are National League highs. His .756 slugging average will be the NL record until topped by Barry Bonds in 2001.
1931: Lou Gehrig hits a home run to tie Babe Ruth at 46 while the Yankees pound Lefty Grove, 13 - 1, and deny him his 32nd victory. Grove throws just three innings in the warmup for the World Series. Gehrig drives in two runs as he (184) and Ruth (163) combine to drive in 347 runs for the year, the most productive duo in history.
1932: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bots Nekola from the New York Yankees in the 1932 rule 5 draft.
1935: All American League games are rained out today.
1938: Hank Greenberg again hits 2 homers, extending his record to 11 times in the same season. They are the last he will hit this season, as he falls 2 short of Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60.
1940: Besides Bobo Newsom (21-5), Schoolboy Rowe (16-3), and Tommy Bridges (12-9), the Tigers' pitching staff combines for a losing record. Needing one victory to gain the title, manager Del Baker decides to withhold Newsom and Rowe and picks Floyd Giebell, an obscure rookie just called in from Buffalo. Giebell shuts out the Indians 2 - 0, to beat Bob Feller who gives up just 3 hits. Not eligible for the World Series, Giebell will never win another game in the major leagues.
During the game, unruly Cleveland fans shower the field with fruit and vegetables. At one point, a basket of green tomatoes is dropped onto Tigers C Birdie Tebbetts' head while he sits in the bullpen.
1941: Ted Williams starts the day with a .401 batting average and refuses Boston manager Joe Cronin's suggestion that he sit out the rest of the season to preserve his average. Against the A's he hits one single in 4 at bats to drop his average to .3995.
1967: Philadelphia's Jim Bunning loses a major league-record-tying 5th 1 - 0 decision for the year, as Houston's Mike Cuellar outlasts the veteran in 11 innings.
1972: Trailing 5 - 1, the Tigers score three in the 8th and two in the 9th to beat the Yankees and Sparky Lyle. It's another multi-hit game for Al Kaline with 2 hits and 2 rbi.
Kaline carries the team on his back batting .376 for the month (29 for 77), 5 doubles, 4 homeruns, and 11 rbi, but more important the the last 10 games of the season, Kaline ends the year with a 10 game hitting streak (21 for 41) as the Tigers win 8 of 10 to clinch the AL East.
1983: The Detroit Tigers signed Scott Medvin as an amateur free agent.
1986: Jack Morris shuts out the Yankees, 1 - 0, in 10 innings, raising his record to 20-8.
1998: Bobby Higginson homers off Roy Halladay with 2 out in 9th to breakup a no-hitter. It was Halladay's 2nd career start.
1999: With each of the Tigers wearing the uniform numbers of all-time great Detroit players at their position (OF Gabe Kapler, standing in for Ty Cobb, wears no number) the Tigers defeat the Royals, 8 - 2, in the last game ever played at Tiger Stadium. Robert Fick's grand slam in the 8th brings the capacity crowd of 43,356 to its feet. Luis Polonia and Karim Garcia also homer as Brian Moehler beats Jeff Suppan.
2012: Doug Fister of the Tigers strikes out 9 consecutive batters in defeating the Royals, 5 - 4, setting a new American League record. With the White Sox's 3 - 2 loss to the Rays, Detroit now leads the AL Central by two games.
Tigers players and executives birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/ferrycy01.shtml
Cy Ferry 1904.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gibsofr01.shtml
Frank Gibson 1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gagnoch01.shtml
Chick Gagnon 1922.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/billijo02.shtml
Josh Billings 1927-1929.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wyattwh01.shtml
Whit Wyatt 1929-1933.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/casalje01.shtml
Jerry Casale 1961-1962.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wickeda01.shtml
Dave Wickersham 1964-1967.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bill_Lajoie
Bill Lajoie Scout 1969-1973, Scouting Director 1974-1978, Assistant General Manager 1979-1983, General Manager 1984-1990.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/suthega01.shtml
Gary Sutherland 1974-1976.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/ferrycy01.shtml
Cy Ferry 1904.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jaegech01.shtml
Charlie Jaeger 1904.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/barnefr01.shtml
Frank Barnes 1929.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Gates_Brown
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownga01.shtml
Gates Brown 1963-1975, coach 1978-1984.
from Baseball Reference
1908: The Tigers take over first place with a Sunday 5 - 2 win over the A's behind righty George Mullin.
1912: Eddie Plank goes 19 innings for the A's against Bob Groom and Walter Johnson of the Nationals, and takes a 5 - 4 loss when Eddie Collins' wild throw lets the winning run score. Johnson relieves Bob Groom at the end of the 9th, and pitches 10 innings of scoreless relief.
1917: The Red Sox play a benefit game against an American League all-star team and Babe Ruth and Rube Foster combine for a 2 - 0 shutout.
The AL squad features Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and Joe Jackson in the outfield.
More than $14,000 is raised for the family of sports writer Tim Murnane, who died February 13th. Murnane had played and managed in Boston in the 19th century. Actress Fanny Brice helps sell programs and former heavyweight champ John L. Sullivan coaches 3B for the Sox. Ruth wins the fungo hitting contest with a drive of 402 feet, while Joe Jackson has the longest throw at an impressive 396 feet.
1925: In a doubleheader split with the Braves in St. Louis, the Cards' player-manager, Rogers Hornsby, hits his 38th and 39th home runs of the year, along with a single, double, and triple to push his average to .403. In batting practice tomorrow, Hornsby will foul a ball off his foot splitting his toenail, and will sit the last three games. The Rajah calls reporters into the clubhouse to view his bloody toe, "because some of those in the East may say I'm stallin' because I want to save my .400 average."
Hornsby will be the only player-manager to win the triple crown, which he does by topping .400 for the 3rd time in four years, while his 39 home runs and 143 RBI are National League highs. His .756 slugging average will be the NL record until topped by Barry Bonds in 2001.
1931: Lou Gehrig hits a home run to tie Babe Ruth at 46 while the Yankees pound Lefty Grove, 13 - 1, and deny him his 32nd victory. Grove throws just three innings in the warmup for the World Series. Gehrig drives in two runs as he (184) and Ruth (163) combine to drive in 347 runs for the year, the most productive duo in history.
1932: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bots Nekola from the New York Yankees in the 1932 rule 5 draft.
1935: All American League games are rained out today.
1938: Hank Greenberg again hits 2 homers, extending his record to 11 times in the same season. They are the last he will hit this season, as he falls 2 short of Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60.
1940: Besides Bobo Newsom (21-5), Schoolboy Rowe (16-3), and Tommy Bridges (12-9), the Tigers' pitching staff combines for a losing record. Needing one victory to gain the title, manager Del Baker decides to withhold Newsom and Rowe and picks Floyd Giebell, an obscure rookie just called in from Buffalo. Giebell shuts out the Indians 2 - 0, to beat Bob Feller who gives up just 3 hits. Not eligible for the World Series, Giebell will never win another game in the major leagues.
During the game, unruly Cleveland fans shower the field with fruit and vegetables. At one point, a basket of green tomatoes is dropped onto Tigers C Birdie Tebbetts' head while he sits in the bullpen.
1941: Ted Williams starts the day with a .401 batting average and refuses Boston manager Joe Cronin's suggestion that he sit out the rest of the season to preserve his average. Against the A's he hits one single in 4 at bats to drop his average to .3995.
1967: Philadelphia's Jim Bunning loses a major league-record-tying 5th 1 - 0 decision for the year, as Houston's Mike Cuellar outlasts the veteran in 11 innings.
1972: Trailing 5 - 1, the Tigers score three in the 8th and two in the 9th to beat the Yankees and Sparky Lyle. It's another multi-hit game for Al Kaline with 2 hits and 2 rbi.
Kaline carries the team on his back batting .376 for the month (29 for 77), 5 doubles, 4 homeruns, and 11 rbi, but more important the the last 10 games of the season, Kaline ends the year with a 10 game hitting streak (21 for 41) as the Tigers win 8 of 10 to clinch the AL East.
1983: The Detroit Tigers signed Scott Medvin as an amateur free agent.
1986: Jack Morris shuts out the Yankees, 1 - 0, in 10 innings, raising his record to 20-8.
1998: Bobby Higginson homers off Roy Halladay with 2 out in 9th to breakup a no-hitter. It was Halladay's 2nd career start.
1999: With each of the Tigers wearing the uniform numbers of all-time great Detroit players at their position (OF Gabe Kapler, standing in for Ty Cobb, wears no number) the Tigers defeat the Royals, 8 - 2, in the last game ever played at Tiger Stadium. Robert Fick's grand slam in the 8th brings the capacity crowd of 43,356 to its feet. Luis Polonia and Karim Garcia also homer as Brian Moehler beats Jeff Suppan.
2012: Doug Fister of the Tigers strikes out 9 consecutive batters in defeating the Royals, 5 - 4, setting a new American League record. With the White Sox's 3 - 2 loss to the Rays, Detroit now leads the AL Central by two games.
Tigers players and executives birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/ferrycy01.shtml
Cy Ferry 1904.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gibsofr01.shtml
Frank Gibson 1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gagnoch01.shtml
Chick Gagnon 1922.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/billijo02.shtml
Josh Billings 1927-1929.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wyattwh01.shtml
Whit Wyatt 1929-1933.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/casalje01.shtml
Jerry Casale 1961-1962.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wickeda01.shtml
Dave Wickersham 1964-1967.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bill_Lajoie
Bill Lajoie Scout 1969-1973, Scouting Director 1974-1978, Assistant General Manager 1979-1983, General Manager 1984-1990.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/suthega01.shtml
Gary Sutherland 1974-1976.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/ferrycy01.shtml
Cy Ferry 1904.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jaegech01.shtml
Charlie Jaeger 1904.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/barnefr01.shtml
Frank Barnes 1929.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Gates_Brown
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownga01.shtml
Gates Brown 1963-1975, coach 1978-1984.
from Baseball Reference
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