November 21 in Tigers and mlb history:
1888: The Pittsburgh Alleghenys purchased Ned Hanlon from the Detroit Wolverines for $2,500.
1889: The National League issues its reply to the Players League manifesto. Claiming that the League saved baseball in 1876 and that under the reserve rules players' salaries have "more than trebled," the NL denounces the Brotherhood movement as "the efforts of certain overpaid players to again control [baseball] for their own aggrandizement. . . to its ultimate dishonor and disintegration."
1893: Ban Johnson is named president, secretary, and treasurer of the recently reorganized Western League. Under Johnson's leadership the league will prosper and eventually become the American League.
1900: Given a ten-year contract to control the Baltimore franchise, John McGraw says he intends to be there a long time, and wants to lease grounds in Baltimore where he can stay. He'll be a manager for 32 more years, but not in Baltimore.
1905: Hall of Famer Freddie Lindstrom was born this day in Chicago, IL
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1920: Legendary St. Louis Cardinals 1b and LF Stan Musial is born in Donora, Pa. "The Man" will go on to play 22 years in St. Louis, setting many N.L. and ML records on his way to election to the Hall of Fame in 1969.
1933: Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Chuck Klein, who won the Triple Crown after hitting .368 with 28 home runs and 120 RBI, is sold to the Cubs for $125,000 and veterans Mark Koenig and Harvey Hendrick, and rookie Ted Kleinhans. Hendrick will play one year with the Phillies, while Koenig and Hendrick quickly go to the Reds. Klein, who also led the National League in hits (223), doubles (44), extra-base hits (79), total bases (365), slugging percentage (.602), on base percentage (.368) and OPS (1.025), and finished second in runs (102) and fourth in steals (15), is the only player in major league history to be traded after a Triple Crown season. Klein will have two-plus seasons at Wrigley Field before returning to Philadelphia in 1936.
1934: The Yankees purchase Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League. The son of Italian immigrants will be one of three DiMaggio brothers to play in the major leagues. Dom and Vince are the others.
1949: Bill Veeck sells the Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million to a local syndicate headed by Ellis Ryan. Hank Greenberg will be general manager.
1956: Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe wins the National League MVP; in a few days, he will become the first-ever Cy Young Award winner.
1960: Bob Scheffing signs to manage the Detroit Tigers after the job is turned down by Casey Stengel. He will manage Tigers to 101 wins in 1961.
1962: The Pittsburgh Pirates trade the player they call "Dr. StrangeGlove" 1B Dick Stuart and P Jack Lamabe to the Boston Red Sox for P Don Schwall and C Jim Pagliaroni.
1969: Future Hall of Famer Ken Griffey, Jr. is born in Donora, PA, the son of Ken Griffey, Sr., himself an All-Star outfielder who will not make his major league debut until 1973. The two will be the first father/son duo to play together in the major leagues, in 1990, but the younger Griffey will greatly surpass his father's accomplishments, receiving a record-high percentage of the vote when elected to Cooperstown in 2016.
1970: The Sporting News announces Gold Glove Award selections. Chicago White Sox shortstop Luis Aparicio wins the ninth and final honor of his career. Aparicio has now won a gold glove in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
1972: Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk is the first-ever unanimous choice for American League Rookie of the Year. Fisk hit 22 home runs and led the AL East Division with a .293 batting average.
Pitcher Jon Matlack of the New York Mets is named the National League winner.
1973: Pete Rose wins the National League MVP Award in a controversial vote, edging out Willie Stargell. Rose led the NL with 230 hits and won his third batting crown with a .338 mark. Stargell led the league with 44 home runs, 119 runs batted in, and a .646 slugging percentage while batting .299.
1977: Baltimore Orioles first baseman Eddie Murray is named American League Rookie of the Year.
1983: The Cincinnati Reds purchased Wayne Krenchicki from the Detroit Tigers.
1985: The Detroit Tigers signed Doug Flynn as a free agent.
1989: The Detroit Tigers released Frank Williams.
1989: Kevin Mitchell of the Giants, who led the major leagues with 47 home runs and 125 RBI, is named National League Most Valuable Player.
1991: Atlanta Braves third baseman Terry Pendleton, who hit .319 with 22 home runs and 86 RBI, wins the National League MVP Award.
2000: Citing statistics to a U.S. Senate panel, Commissioner Bud Selig states it is time for "sweeping changes" in the game's economic make-up, raising the possibility of a work stoppage after the current contract expires on October 31, 2001.
2000: The Detroit Tigers signed Alejandro Freire as a free agent.
2000: The Detroit Tigers signed Jarrod Patterson as a free agent.
2002: In the earliest-scheduled season opener in major league history, the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners will start the season in Tokyo, Japan, on March 25, 2003. The two-game series will feature recent American League Rookies of the Year Kazuhiro Sasaki (2000) and Ichiro Suzuki (2001).
2011: The Tigers' Justin Verlander adds the American League Most Valuable Player Award to the Cy Young Award he won a week ago after a dominating season in which he led Detroit to the AL Central title. Verlander is the first pitcher to win the award in the AL since reliever Dennis Eckersley in 1992, and the first starting pitcher to do so since Roger Clemens in 1986*. Verlander secures 13 of 28 first-place votes to finish ahead of Boston's Jacoby Ellsbury, Toronto's Jose Bautista and New York's Curtis Granderson in a bunched-up vote.
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2011: The Detroit Tigers signed Jerad Head as a free agent.
2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Pat McCoy as a free agent.
2013: Michael Weiner, executive director of the MLBPA, dies of brain cancer at age 51. The architect of the 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement and highly respected by players, owners and Major League Baseball top executives alike, he is succeeded by former player Tony Clark.
2014: To mark the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's enrollment at the university, UCLA announces it will retire the number 42 in his honor across all sports in which varsity teams compete and renames its athletic facilities the "Jackie Robinson Athletics and Recreation Complex."
2017: The Commissioner's office issues its ruling in the investigation of improprieties committed by the Atlanta Braves by willingly circumventing international signing rules from 2015 through 2017. Former General Manager John Coppolella receives a lifetime ban, and 12 prospects in the organization are declared free agents. The Braves are also forbidden from signing any prospect for a bonus of more than $10,000 in the 2019-20 signing period, their bonus pool will be cut by 50% the following year, and they will lose a third-round selection in the 2018 amateur draft while sanctions against other employees are expected to follow. The scam involved secretly diverting bonuses declared for certain prospects towards others governed by signing pool limits, in order to make it appear as if the team had not exceeded these limits.
2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Brendon Davis as a free agent.
2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Miguel Diaz as a free agent.
2023 The
Detroit Tigers signed
Garrett Hill as a free agent.
2023: The
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Ryan Vilade as a free agent.
Tigers players birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Charlie Bennett. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Charlie Bennett Detroit Wolverines N.L. 1881-1888.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Gus Hetling. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Gus Hetling 1906.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bill Morrisette. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Bill Morrisette 1920.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Paul Richards. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Paul Richards 1943-1946.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Daryl Patterson. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Daryl Patterson 1968-1971.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Rick Peters. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Rick Peters 1979-1981.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Quintin Berry. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Quintin Berry 2012.
Tigers players and announcers who passed away:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Buck Marrow. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Buck Morrow 1932.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Earl Cook. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Earl Cook 1941.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Hack Miller. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Hack Miller 1944-1945.
Mel Ott announcer 1956-1958.
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