Detroit Tigers Team Notes
September 18 in Tigers history :
1909: Before 35,409, the largest paid baseball attendance ever, Chief Bender beats Bill Donovan and the Tigers 2 - 0 at Philadelphia to keep the A's in the pennant race. The A's are 14-8 against Detroit this year, setting an American League record for most wins against the pennant winner. Ty Cobb is the Triple Crown winner with a .377 BA, nine home runs (all inside-the-park), and 107 RBI. He also will lead the American League with 216 hits, 116 runs, 296 total bases, OBP .431 Slugging .517 OPS .947 OPS+ 194. Cobb's 76 stolen bases make him the only player ever to win a quadruple crown.
1965: On Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium, 50,180 fans see Mantle play his 2,000th game. Joe DiMaggio and Bobby Kennedy are on hand as Mantle is given a barbecue grill in the shape of a prairie schooner and a six-foot Kosher salami weighing 100 pounds. In Mantle's first at bat, Detroit's Joe Sparma comes off the mound to shake his hand. Mick then flies out. Detroit wins, 4 - 3, with reliever Denny McLain getting the win.
1967: Boston rallies to beat the 1st place Tigers in Detroit. A Yastrzemski home run ties the game 5 - 5 in the 9th inning and a solo home run by Dalton Jones wins it in the 10th. Hours later, Detroit will receive another blow when Denny McLain says he leaped off a couch and sprains his left ankle. Conflicting stories about a broken toe at the hands of gamblers will continue. He will not pitch until the last game of the year.
1984: The Tigers clinch the American League East championship with a 3 - 0 win over the Brewers as starter Randy O'Neal records his first ML win. Detroit becomes the 4th team this century to be in first place every day of the season, joining the 1923 Giants, the 1927 Yankees, and the 1955 Dodgers.
1987 - In Detroit's 7 - 6 win over the Brewers, Darrell Evans belts his 40th homer of the year. He is the first 40-year-old to hit 40 homers.
Tigers players birthdays :
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Uhle
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/u/uhlege01.shtml
George Uhle 1929-1933.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/masonro01.shtml
Roger Mason 1984.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/earlsc01.shtml
Scott Earl 1984.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/melusmi01.shtml
Mitch Meluskey 2002.
from baseball reference
