March 30 in Tigers and mlb history:
1944 - Branch Rickey suggests the pooling of surplus players if major league 4F players are drafted for military service. Nothing comes of the suggestion.
1966 - Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers end their dual holdout. Both pitchers had stayed away from camp for 32 days, threatening retirement in an effort to acquire pay raises. Koufax signs for $120,000; Drysdale settles for $105,000.
1972 - Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, completes his canvass of players on the strike issue. 663 vote in favor of a strike, ten vote against, and two players abstain.
1993 - Peanuts character Charlie Brown hits a game-winning home run - his first round tripper in 43 years. Almost ten percent of the nearly 18,000 Peanuts strips created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz focus on baseball.
2010: Dontrelle Willis' comeback is on the right track, as he is advised by Tigers manager Jim Leyland that he has made the team as the fifth starter. The Tigers also trade P Nate Robertson to Florida for left-handed pitching prospect Jay Voss.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Ed Gremminger 1904.
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Jack Lazorko 1986.
Tigers players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Davy_Jones
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Davy Jones 1906-1912, 1918.
Tigers outfielder during the Ty Cobb - Sam Crawford days, dies at age 91.
He was the last survivor of the 1907-09 Tigers three-peat pennant winners.
from Baseball Reference
