October 21 in Tigers and mlb history:
1887: The Detroit Wolverines clinch the World Series championship in Game 11, beating the St. Louis Browns 13-3.
1934: An All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails on tour to Hawaii and Japan. Players with wives include Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Charlie Gehringer, Lefty G?mez, Earl Averill and Lefty O'Doul.
1946: Detroit pitcher Hal Newhouser finishes second to Boston outfielder Ted Williams in voting for American Most Valuable Player. Newhouser won 26 games and led the league in ERA as he nearly wins the MVP Award for the third straight season.
1959: The Players Association approves two All-Star Games in 1960, to be held at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium and New York's Yankee Stadium. The players would like to have them played within four days of each other.
1975: Carlton Fisk breaks up one of the best games in World Series history with a home run in the 12th inning to give the Boston Red Sox a 7 - 6 victory against the Cincinnati Reds, forcing a seventh game to decide the winner of the 1975 World Series.
1976: With a 7 - 2 victory, the Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, completing a four-game sweep of the Yankees. It is the Reds' second straight World Championship. Johnny Bench hits two home runs for five RBI. He finishes with a .533 batting average and is named Series MVP. Yankees catcher Thurman Munson has six straight singles to tie a World Series mark. Cincinnati also becomes the first team ever to go through an entire League Championship Series and World Series without a defeat.
1980: The Philadelphia Phillies become World Series champions for the first time in their 98-year history with a 4 - 1 triumph over the Kansas City Royals in Game 6 of the 1980 World Series.
1983: The Detroit Tigers released Sal Butera.
1983: The Detroit Tigers released Bob Molinaro.
1983: The Detroit Tigers released Bill Nahorodny.
1994: Joe Boever of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1994: Greg Cadaret of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1998: The New York Yankees close out their historic season with 3 - 0 victory against the San Diego Padres, sweeping San Diego in four games to win their record 24th World Series championship. Andy Pettitte gets the victory, and Scott Brosius is named Series MVP. The Game 4 victory gives the Yankees 125 wins against 50 losses for a .714 winning percentage, the best in the majors since their Murderers' Row club of 1927, as their American League record of 114 regular-season victories were the most ever for a major league champion team.
2013: Two days after losing the 2013 ALCS, Tigers manager Jim Leyland announces he is retiring after a 22-year career as a big league skipper.
Leyland led the Tigers to 4 playoff appearances, 3 division titles, and 2 pennants in 8 seasons.
2017: The Astros win Game 7 of the ALCS, 4 - 0, over the Yankees to clinch their-first ever American League pennant. Having also won one in the National League in 2005, they become the first team to have done so in both major leagues. In the game, the Astros get a great combined pitching performance by Charlie Morton, who goes the first five innings, and Lance McCullers, who pitches the last four, limiting the Yankees to just three hits. Evan Gattis and Jose Altuve hit solo homers and Brian McCann drives in two runs, as CC Sabathia is charged with the loss.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Bill Lelivelt 1909-1910.
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Mark Christman 1938-1939.
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John Flaherty 1994-1996.
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Franklin Stubbs 1995.
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Casey Fien 2009-2010.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
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Wayne Belardi 1954-1956.
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Vada Pinson coach 1985-1991.
from Baseball Reference