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November 25 in Tigers and mlb history:

1914: Future Hall of Fame outfielder Joe DiMaggio is born in Martinez, California. The son of Italian immigrants, DiMaggio will make his major league debut in 1936 after starring in the Pacific Coast League and will spend his entire big league playing career with the New York Yankees.

1930: The Sporting News, acting to fill the Most Valuable Player void, announces its selection of New York Giants first baseman Bill Terry as the MVP in the National League, and Washington Senators shortstop Joe Cronin in the American League.

1941: With only three years of major league experience, shortstop Lou Boudreau is named as the Cleveland Indians' manager. At the age of 24 years, four months, and eight days, Boudreau becomes the youngest skipper to pilot a team in the 20th century.

1944: Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first Major League Baseball Commissioner, dies of a heart attack at age 78 in Chicago. Landis had ruled over baseball since November 1920 in the wake of the Black Sox scandal, and wielded authority perhaps unparalleled in any other industry. Landis had entered the hospital on October 2nd. He will elected to the Hall of Fame on December 9th in a special ballot.

1949: Ted Williams, who lost the Triple Crown when his batting average was .0002 below that of George Kell, wins the American League MVP Award vote in a landslide. Phil Rizzuto and Joe Page finish second and third in the voting.

1958: The Baseball Writers Association of America names Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks as the National League Most Valuable Player. Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants is the runner-up.

1981: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first relief pitcher ever to win the AL Most Valuable Player Award, edging Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics, 319-308. Fingers saved 28 games while posting an outstanding 1.04 ERA.

1996: The Detroit Tigers signed Denny Harriger as a free agent.

2002: The Detroit Tigers traded Randall Simon to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a player to be named later and Adrian Burnside (minors). The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Roberto Novoa (December 16, 2002) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2002: The Boston Red Sox hire 28-year-old Theo Epstein as their new general manager. Epstein, a life-time Red Sox fan who grew up about a mile away from Fenway Park, becomes the youngest GM in major league history.

2004: After spending $67 million to acquire its former president's shares of the Seattle Mariners, Nintendo's U.S. subsidiary now owns more than 50 percent of the franchise. Due to the presence of superstar Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle is one of the favorite major league teams in Japan.

2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Mike Hessman as a free agent.

2014: Ezequiel Carrera of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2015: The Detroit Tigers signed Jake Brigham as a free agent.

2017: The Detroit Tigers signed Chad Huffman as a free agent.

Tigers players and announcers birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ray_Narleski
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/narlera01.shtml
Ray Narleski 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Rathbun
Bob Rathbun Tigers radio announcer 1992-94.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wayne_Redmond
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/redmowa01.shtml
Wayne Redmond 1965, 1969.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Don_Leshnock
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leshndo01.shtml
Don Leshnock 1972.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/veresra01.shtml
Randy Veres 1996.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Octavio_Dotel
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/doteloc01.shtml
Octavio Dotel 2012-2013.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/baezsa01.shtml
Sandy Baez 2018.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/carrch01.shtml
Charlie Carr 1903-1904.

from Baseball Reference
 
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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...5/detroit-tigers-blaine-hardy-deal/108009848/
Tigers, Blaine Hardy strike deal, avoid arbitration.
Detnews

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/articl...ine-hardy-avoid-arbitration/?topicId=27118376
Hardy avoids arbitration with 1-year deal.
Detroit signs 4 to Minor League contracts with spring invites.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2017/11/25/16699006/tigers-re-sign-blaine-hardy-to-1-year-contract
Tigers re-sign Blaine Hardy to 1 year contract.
BYBTB

https://detroitsportsnation.com/det...just-tigers-agree-terms-5-players-2018/99036/
Tigers agree to terms with 5 players for 2018.
DSN

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/11/tigers-blaine-hardy-avoid-arbitration.html
Tigers, Blaine Hardy Avoid Arbitration.
MLBTR
 
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November 26 in Tigers and mlb history:

1935: The National League takes over the bankrupt last-place Boston Braves franchise after several failed attempts to buy the club. The league takes over only temporarily, until matters can be straightened out.

1950: The Gillette Safety Razor Co. signs a six-year deal, worth an estimated $6 million, with Major League Baseball for the TV-radio rights for the World Series.

1960: The relocated American League team in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul chooses the nickname "Twins" to represent its franchise. The Twins recently moved from Washington, DC, where they were known as the "Senators."

1961: The Professional Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball. Only National League supervisor of umpires Cal Hubbard votes in favor.

1962: The Houston Colt .45's drafted Conrad Cardinal from the Detroit Tigers in the 1962 first-year draft.
1962: The Detroit Tigers drafted Tommy Matchick from the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1962 first-year draft.
1962: The Minnesota Twins drafted Rich Reese from the Detroit Tigers in the 1962 first-year draft.

1962: The Baltimore Orioles traded Whitey Herzog and Gus Triandos to the Detroit Tigers for Dick Brown.

1963: Second baseman Pete Rose is a landslide winner of National League Rookie of the Year honors, taking 17 of 20 votes. Rose becomes the second Cincinnati Reds player to win the award, after Frank Robinson.

1974: Catfish Hunter meets with Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley in the American Arbitration Association office in New York City for a hearing to determine the validity of Hunter's breach-of-contract claim. Hunter contends that Finley failed to pay $50,000, half of Hunter's salary, to a life insurance fund. The case will go to arbitration.

1975: Boston Red Sox center fielder Fred Lynn becomes the first rookie ever to be named American League Most Valuable Player. Lynn, who batted .331 with 21 home runs, 105 RBI, and league-leading figures in runs (103), doubles (47), and slugging percentage (.566), helped Boston to the American League East title. He also won Rookie of the Year honors.

1980: Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt, who hit .286 with career highs of 48 home runs and 121 RBI, is a unanimous choice as National League Most Valuable Player.

1990: The Detroit Tigers signed John Shelby as a free agent.

1996: Less than three weeks after major league owners voted 18-12 against ratification of baseball's new collective bargaining agreement, owners vote again and this time approve it by a vote of 26-4. The landmark agreement brings interleague play to the regular season for the first time, as well as revenue sharing among owners and a payroll tax on players.

1996: The Detroit Tigers signed Marino Santana as a free agent.

1999: Arbitrator Alan Symonette rejects the owners' attempt to dismiss the umpires' grievance, giving the 22 umps booted as a result of last season's disastrous mass resignation strategy a chance to get their jobs back. Symonette will hear the grievance beginning December 13th.

2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Andy Barkett as a free agent.

2009: New York Yankees Public Address announcer Bob Sheppard officially retires at the age of 99. Known as the "Voice of God," Sheppard had been the Yankees PA announcer from 1951 to 2007 before his deteriorating health forced him to step down. He briefly returned in 2008 to announce the Yankees lineup for the final game at the old Yankee Stadium.

2010: the Tigers sign free agent DH/catcher Victor Martinez to a four-year, $50 million contract. Martinez is a switch-hitting career .300 batter and a four-time All-Star.

2012: The Detroit Tigers signed John Lindsey as a free agent.
2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Matt Tuiasosopo as a free agent.

2012: Postseason shares as announced, and the members of the World Champions Giants receive a record $377,022.64 each for their role in winning the title. Even discredited OF Melky Cabrera, suspended after a positive test for PEDs and kicked off the team before its run to the title, gets a full share because of a rule in the collective bargaining agreement. Members of the Detroit Tigers receive $284,274.50 each, the second-highest total for a runner-up.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kerrjo01.shtml
John Kerr 1923-1924.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Richie_Hebner
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hebneri01.shtml
Richie Hebner 1980-1982.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mooremi01.shtml
Mike Moore 1993-1995.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/knebeco01.shtml
Corey Knebel 2014.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smokejo01.shtml
Josh Smoker 2018.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hub_Walker
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/walkehu01.shtml
Hub Walker 1931, 1935, 1945.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/halleto01.shtml
Tom Haller 1972.

from Baseball Reference
 
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If you?re active on social media, you?re familiar with the online campaigning that goes on come Hall-of-Fame-voting time. Count me among those who enjoys the banter. It enlivens our off-seasons, and the stats and comparisons being shared are often enlightening.

That being said, I?m sure I?m not the only one who grew tired of the anti-Jack Morris crusade during his final years on the ballot. While the arguments against Morris?s worthiness were largely valid, the relentless attempts to marginalize his accomplishments became boorish. Rather than accentuate the qualifications of other candidates, a select group of pundits hammered away at the 1980?s icon.

Welcome to Morris-land, Omar Vizquel. The 2018 ballot includes more worthy players than check boxes allowed, and you?ve been anointed the new whipping boy. Hopefully you have a thick skin, because despite everything you accomplished over 24 MLB seasons, the negativity campaign has already begun.

Fangraphs
 
Gary Bell was known as ?Ding Dong? during his playing days (1958-1969), and for good reason. Solid but nothing special as a pitcher, Bell was well above average as a jokester. That hasn?t changed as he?s aged.

This past summer, the jovial 81-year-old feigned a poor memory when I asked which hitters gave him the most trouble.

?I can?t remember anybody that killed me,? grinned Bell. ?I?m sure there was somebody, but that part I blank out.?

What about guys who didn?t hit him well?

?I think I had good luck against Al Kaline,? responded Bell, who spent the bulk of his career with the Indians and Red Sox. ?I saw him a couple of years ago, and I was kidding with his grandson, who was with him at the time. I said, ?I personally put your grandfather in the Hall of Fame.? Al said, ?Well, you got me out plenty, too.? I didn?t realize it, but I guess I did do pretty well against him.? (Kaline went 15 for 76 against Bell.)

Bell was quick with a quip when I mentioned that Norm Cash owned him (20 for 54 with six home runs).

?I roomed with Norm in spring training,? said Bell. ?Don?t forget, he was originally with Cleveland. I told him all about how I was going to pitch him if we were ever on opposite teams. You have to help the little guy once in awhile, you know.?

I looked at Bell skeptically.

?Nah, I?m just kidding,? guffawed Bell. ?We never talked about hitting and pitching back in those days. We were too busy having fun.?

Fangraphs
 
November 27 in Tigers and mlb history:

1910: The touring Detroit Tigers, with Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford in the lineup, play an exhibition game in Havana, Cuba. With George Mullin pitching, the Tigers beat Almendares, 4 - 0.

1941: Joe DiMaggio is named American League Most Valuable Player. His 56-game hitting streak edges out Ted Williams and his .406 batting average for the award (291 points for DiMaggio and 254 for Williams).

1947: Triple Crown winner Ted Williams (.343, 32 HR,162 RBI) is edged out by Joe DiMaggio (.315, 20, 97) for the American League MVP Award by one point. One BBWAA member fails to include Williams anywhere on his ballot.

1953: Cleveland Indians third baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named the American League Most Valuable Player with a record 336 votes. In the National League, Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella receives the honor.

1955: The Detroit Tigers drafted Joe Presko from the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1955 rule 5 draft.
1955: The Detroit Tigers drafted Hal Woodeshick from the New York Giants in the 1955 minor league draft.
1955: The Brooklyn Dodgers drafted Ken Rowe from the Detroit Tigers in the 1955 minor league draft.

1956: Don Newcombe (27 wins, 3.06 ERA), pitcher for the National League pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, becomes the first Cy Young Award winner. Only one pitcher will be selected each season for this prestigious pitching award until 1967 when each league will name a winner.

1962: The Detroit Tigers traded Ron Nischwitz and Gordon Seyfried to the Cleveland Indians for Bubba Phillips.

1981: The Detroit Tigers trade OF Steve Kemp to the Chicago White Sox for OF Chet Lemon.

1984: The American League Gold Glove team is announced, and it is made up of the same nine players as the 1983 team: catcher Lance Parrish, first baseman Eddie Murray, second baseman Lou Whitaker, third baseman Buddy Bell, shortstop Alan Trammell, outfielders Dwight Evans, Dave Winfield and Dwayne Murphy, and pitcher Ron Guidry.

1997: Hall of Famer Buck Leonard dies at the age of 90. Regarded as one of the greatest players in Negro Leagues history, Leonard starred for the powerhouse Homestead Grays, who won nine consecutive pennants. Leonard consistently ranked among the league leaders in home runs and won a batting title in 1948.

2000: The Detroit Tigers released Erik Hiljus.

2012: Marvin Miller, who served as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966 to 1983, dies at 95. A veteran union organizer from the steel industry, Miller made the union highly powerful, leading to the first collective bargaining agreement in professional sports in 1968 and other breakthroughs such as salary arbitration and free agency in the 1970s.
These advances required a number of strikes, which made Miller a vilified figure among owners. Lingering bitterness explains while Miller failed to secure election to the Hall of Fame by a small margin in recent years.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bob_Schultz
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schulbo01.shtml
Bob Schultz 1955.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beverja01.shtml
Jason Beverlin 2002.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Iván_Rodríguez
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodriiv01.shtml
Ivan 'Pudge' Rodriguez 2004-2008.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Babe_Herman
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hermaba01.shtml
Babe Herman 1937.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Eddie_Mayo
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mayoed01.shtml
Eddie Mayo 1944-1948.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/connebi01.shtml
Bill Connelly 1950.

from baseball reference
 
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