September 6 in Tigers and mlb history:
1916: At Detroit? Ty Cobb's speed is too much for St. Louis and the Tigers win 4 - 3. In the 10th inning? Cobb beats out a hit to short? steals second base and continues to third on a low throw. Bobby Veach then grounds sharply to George Sisler at 1B? forcing Cobb to return to third. But when Sisler jogs over to touch the bag Cobb dashes for home, beating the throw.
1919: Jack Tobin goes 5 for 5 to pace the St. Louis Browns to a 12 - 10 win over the Tigers. Ty Cobb notches three hits and Harry Heilmann hits two triples and a single for Detroit.
1940 - Detroit's Bobo Newsom wins his 18th and hands Cleveland its 5th straight loss? topping the Tribe 10 - 5. C Birdie Tebbetts has 2 rbi, 3B Billy Sullivan also has 2 rbi and scores 3 runs, and LF Hank Greenberg hits his 28th homerun.
1944 - In a rare night game allowed by American League president Will Harridge, after wet grounds delayed the afternoon game? the Tigers edge the host White Sox 3 - 2 to stay close to the Browns and Yankees. Only 1?216 fans are on hand.
1948: In the twinbill split between the Tigers and the Browns, the 2 teams set an American League mark by using 37 players in game 2? an 11 - 10 St. Louis win. Ted Gray wins the opener 8 - 1. Pat Mullin, Bob Swift, and Dick Wakefield each have homeruns in the win.
1967 - After the Tigers sweep the A's 8 - 5 and 6 - 3 and the White Sox down the Angels, 3 - 2? the top 4 American League teams are separated by a single percentage point. Chicago and Minnesota are 78-61 for .561; Boston and Detroit are 79-62 for .560.
1968 - Denny McLain notches win number 28? beating the Twins 8 - 3. The Tigers score 4 runs off Jim Kaat before the first out is recorded. The big blast is recorded by LF Willie Horton and his 3 run homer.
1972 - Behind Mickey Lolich's 20th win? Detroit beats the Orioles in Baltimore 4 - 3, in the tight pennant race. Lolich had failed in 5 previous outings to win his 20th.
2000: After reaching an agreement with the law firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockis LLP, Major League Baseball can now use the URL
www.mlb.com. The law firm registered the mlb.com in 1994 and refused to release the domain name, making it necessary for the sport to use
www.majorleaguebaseball.com.
2006: The Tigers release Dmitri Young. Young spent a month in a rehab center this summer for alcohol and drug abuse, and later this month will be sentenced to a year's probation for assaulting a former girlfriend.
2009: After striking out in his first three at-bats, Brandon Inge hits a grand slam off Russ Springer in the 9th inning to give Detroit a 5 - 3 win over Tampa Bay.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/phillja02.shtml
Jack Phillips 1955-1957.
Tigers players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Barney_McCosky
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mccosba01.shtml?redir
Barney McCosky 1939-1942, 1946. Traded to the Philadelphia A's for third baseman George Kell in May of 1946.
from baseball reference
