June 29 in Tigers and mlb history:
1905: Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham made his one and only appearance for the Giants as a defensive replacement without a plate appearance. Also pictured is Dr. Graham treating children in Chilsom, MN.
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1907: At Bennett Park Ty Cobb steals home for the first time in his career, victimizing the Cleveland battery of pitcher Heinie Berger and catcher Howard Wakefield. Cobb will steal home an MLB record 55 times in his career.
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1909: Pitching against the Highlanders, Walter Johnson gives up a solo homer to Ray Demmitt in the 7th, the first home run he's allowed since his debut in 1907. Demmitt's shot is the only score for New York, as Johnson beats them for the second time in 10 days.
1912: Rube Marquard's record goes to an amazing 18-0 as he tops Boston for New York's 12th straight win over the hapless Braves.
1915: Led by Tris Speaker's 5 for 5, the Red Sox trip the Yankees, 4 - 3, in 10 innings. Babe Ruth gets the win, going all the way before Sheriff Gainer hits for him in the 10th.
1931: The Detroit Tigers released Wally Schang.
1934: Lou Gehrig is beaned in an exhibition game played in Norfolk, Virginia, and suffers a concussion.
1935: Despite Cardinal outfielder Joe "Ducky" Medwick hitting for the cycle, the Reds beat the "Gas House Gang" and Daffy Dean, 8 - 6.
1935: Gabby Hartnett goes 4 for 4 and drives home the game winner in the Cubs' 2 - 1 victory over the Pirates. Chuck Klein's homer accounts for the other score to back Lon Warneke's win over Red Lucas. Chicago moves into 2nd place with the victory.
1936: Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew was born this day in Payette, ID. He belted 40 or more homers in a season an incredible eight times.
He finished his career with 573 home runs, won an MVP & was a 13-time All-Star.
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1941: In a doubleheader with the Senators, Joe DiMaggio ties and then breaks the American League consecutive game hitting streak of 41 established by George Sisler. In the opener, he knots the record with a double off Dutch Leonard, and in the nightcap the "Yankee Clipper" tops the record with a 7th-inning single against Walt Masterson.
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1950: In what looks like a football score, the Red Sox overpower the A's, 22 - 14 in Philadelphia, the third time this month they've scored 20 or more runs. The 36 runs establish an American League mark for runs scored by two teams. Both teams match a major league record they set in 1901 for most players scoring two or more runs (Boston, 9: Philadelphia, 4). Overall, pitchers give up 21 walks in the debacle. Despite the high score, only one home run is hit - by Ted Williams in a game one newspaper calls "a two hour and 50 minute marathon." The previous record of 35 runs was set by the same two clubs in 1901: Boston 23, A's 12. The major league mark is 49 by the Cubs and Phillies on August 25, 1922.
1950: In an effort to thwart the major leagues' signing of black players, Dr. J.B. Martin, the president of the Chicago American Giants of the Negro American League, instructs manager, Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe to sign white players. Radcliffe inks three white players, teenagers Lou Chirban, Lou Clarizio and Al Dubetts. Later in the year he will sign at least two others (Stanley Miarka and Frank Dyall). However, their Negro League careers will be brief.
1957: In the wake of the Redlegs ballot stuffing brouhaha, National League President Warren Giles proposes that fan All-Star voting be limited to those actually attending a game.
1961: With three round-trippers at Philadelphia - one a 10th-inning shot to win 8 - 7 - Willie Mays becomes the 4th major league player with three or more home runs twice in one season.
1966: At Fenway Park, Mickey Mantle opens the scoring in the 1st inning with a 3-run shot, then sandwiches a homer between round trippers by Bobby Richardson and Joe Pepitone in the 3rd inning in New York's 6 - 5 win. The consecutive trifecta was last done for the Yankees in 1947, when Charlie Keller, Joe DiMaggio and Johnny Lindell connected. Richardson is 5 for 5 in the game. Mantle's two homers today, his 37th and 38th at Fenway, will be his last in Boston, and tie him with Babe Ruth for most homers by a Sox opponent.
1967: The Houston Astros traded Jim Landis to the Detroit Tigers for Larry Sherry.
1968: Jim Northrup's third grand slam ties the major-league record for slams in a month (Rudy York, May 1938), and sets a major-league record for slams in a week. The Tigers win 5 - 2 over Chicago, as Denny McLain tallies his 14th victory.
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1969: Tony Oliva collects eight straight hits in the Twins' twinbill split with the Royals. Kansas City takes the opener, 7 - 2, behind homers by Mike Fiore and Bob Oliver. Oliva flies out his first time up, then strokes three singles. In the Twins' 12 - 2 win in game two, Oliva hits two homers, a double and two singles, driving in five runs.
1969: On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's National League record for consecutive games played (896). The Cubs sweep the Cardinals, 3 - 1 and 12 - 1, before 41,060.
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1971: Tom Seaver strikes out 13 batters in a 3 - 0 Mets win over the Phillies.
1972: In a swap of former MVPs, the Braves send 1B Orlando Cepeda to the A's for P Denny McLain.
1972: Bill Freehan hits a grand slam in the 9th to give the Tigers an 8-4 win in Boston.
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1983: Mark Fidrych, in the second year of an extended comeback attempt with the Pawtucket Red Sox (International League) retires. The 1976 American League Rookie of the Year was 2-5 with a 9.68 ERA.
1984: Twins rookie Andre David hits a 2-run home run off Jack Morris in his first major league at bat to spark Minnesota to a 5 - 3 win over Detroit before 44,619. It is the only home run David will hit in the big leagues and it stops Morris's 11-game win streak over the Twins.
Detroit wins the nitecap 7 - 5 as Kirk Gibson starts the scoring with a two-run homer in the 1st and ends it with a two-run homer in the 9th. The Tigers also score in the 2nd on back-to-back homers by Chet Lemon and Ruppert Jones.
The Tigers are now 54-21.
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1986: Detroit beats Milwaukee, 9 - 5, in the first game of a doubleheader split, making Tigers manager Sparky Anderson the first manager ever to win 600 games in each league.
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1990: Oakland's Dave Stewart and the Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela both throw no-hitters today, the first time this has happened since Hippo Vaughn and Fred Toney's double no-hitter in 1917. Stewart blanks the Blue Jays, 5 - 0, and a few hours later Valenzuela beats the Cardinals, 6 - 0. The only threat to Stewart is a fly ball by Fred McGriff that Dave Henderson catches with his back pinned to the wall. Fernando almost loses his no-hitter with one out in the 9th when Pedro Guerrero hits a grounder up the middle with a runner on. Valenzuela, a former Gold Glover deflects the ball towards second base where SS Alfredo Griffin starts a game-ending double play.
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1998: The Detroit Tigers released Andy Tomberlin.
1998: Not a single major league game is scheduled to be played. With the exception of All-Star breaks and labor shortages, it is the first time this has happened during the regular season in 25 years, since April 30, 1973.
2001: The Cleveland Indians sent Trace Coquillette to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.
2004: Dmitri Young homers in the 11th inning to give the #Tigers their 3rd straight walk-off home run and a 9 - 7 win over the indians.
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2004: At Bank One Ballpark, the Diamondbacks' 40-year old fireballer Randy Johnson records his 4,000th career strikeout whiffing Padres third baseman Jeff Cirillo, a fellow USC Trojan, to become the fourth player in major league history to reach the plateau. The "Big Unit" needs fewer innings (3,237 1/3) than Nolan Ryan (3,844 2/3), Roger Clemens (4,151) or Steve Carlton (4,991 1/3) to accomplish the feat.
2005: Craig Biggio breaks Don Baylor's modern record for being hit by a pitch as he is plunked for the 268th time in his career. At Coors Field, Rockies starter Byung-Hyun Kim hits the Astros second baseman on the left elbow in the 4th inning to establish a new mark, both literally and figuratively.
2015: The Tampa Bay Rays traded Alexi Casilla to the Detroit Tigers for player to be named or cash.
2016: Actress Victoria Justice throws out the first pitch at Comerica Park, as part of her visit to Detroit to promote literacy & unveil book vending machines in the city with Justin Upton.
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2016: Miguel Cabrera has 3 hits, including a home run measured at 459 feet as the Tigers crush the marlins 10 - 3.
2019: The Detroit Tigers signed Trevor Rosenthal as a free agent.
2020: With training camps for MLB teams set to re-open in a couple of days, a number of players announce that they will sit out the abridged season over health and safety concerns. They include Ryan Zimmerman and Joe Ross of the Nationals, Mike Leake of the Diamondbacks and Ian Desmond of the Rockies.
2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Drew Hutchison as a free agent.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Bobby Veach 1912-1923.
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Dizzy Trout 1939-1952.
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Bill Connelly 1950.
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Bob Shaw 1957-1958.
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Bruce Kimm 1976-1977.
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Eddie Miller 1982.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Johnny Bassler 1921-1927.
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Boyd Perry 1941.
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