September 9 in Tigers and mlb history:
1921 - An American League record for total runs and hits is made when Chicago beats Detroit, 20 - 15. Each team has 20 hits. Ralph Young, Ty Cobb each have 3 hits and 4 runs scored. Harry Heilmann and Bobby Veach knock in 4 apiece.
1931 - To raise funds to help the unemployed in the Depression, the Yankees, Giants, and Robins agree to a series of benefit games. Sixty thousand fans, paying regular prices, raise $59,000 in the first match-up, as Babe Ruth homers and the Yankees beat the Giants 7 - 2.
1932 - The Tigers beat the Yankees 14 - 13 in a 14-inning game in which Lou Gehrig hits a grand slam and drives in eight runs. He has reached this RBI feat twice before. Frankie Crosetti strikes out four times in the game, including twice in one inning. Detroit also tops the Yanks 4 - 1 in five innings to finally complete the protested game of August 1st, and the tie of yesterday. The Yanks score their lone run in the 3rd inning off Buck Marrow with their only two hits of the game.
1950: The Tigers and White Sox finally finish a game that started in April. The game was originally scheduled as the nitecap of a doubleheader on April 30th, but was halted by darkness after 9 innings deadlocked at 7 - 7. Rescheduled for August 10th, the contest was halted in the 7th with the score 1 - 1. Art Houtteman finally settles it with a 1 - 0, 12-inning win. Hoot Evers triples and scores on a single by Johnny Groth. The league leaders fail to cash in by losing the nitecap 5 - 4, cutting their lead to a half game over New York and a game ahead of Boston.
1970: Bowie Kuhn hands Denny McLain his third suspension of the year, this one for carrying a gun, plus other unspecified charges, and ends McLain's season with a 3-5 record.
1977 - In the second game of a doubleheader loss in Boston, Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell debut together. They will hold down the 2B and SS jobs in Detroit for a record 19 years and a record for teammates of 1,918 games played together.
1990: Tiger RF Scott Lusader loses the battle to bright sun and soggy turf and makes three errors (two fielding and one throwing) in the 1st inning against the White Sox. It's a first in the American League since 1925. The Sox score seven runs in the inning and coast home 13 - 3, snapping the Tigers' 7-game winning streak.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/eubanjo01.shtml
John Eubank 1905-1907.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Waite_Hoyt
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hoytwa01.shtml?redir
Waite Hoyt 1930-1931.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thomabu01.shtml
Bud Thomas 1939-1941.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/proctji01.shtml
Jim Proctor 1959.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sandere01.shtml
Reggie Sanders 1974.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/micelda01.shtml
Dan Miceli 1997.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Edwin_Jackson
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksed01.shtml
Edwin Jackson 2009.
Tigers players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Doc_Cramer
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cramedo01.shtml?redir
Doc Cramer 1942-1948.
from baseball reference
