March 15 in Tigers and mlb history:
1945: With World War II travel restrictions still in effect, the Brooklyn Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York, with 15 players in camp. Seven teams - the St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox - are training in Indiana, the most of any state.
1971 - Bernice Gera, a 39-year-old New York, NY housewife, files a lawsuit against organized baseball, claiming violation of her civil rights. Mrs. Gera had completed an umpire school and signed a contract to work in the New York-Penn League, only to see the deal be voided six days later with no explanation. Gera will eventually umpire one game before quitting.
1980 Detroit trades future manager Jerry Manuel to the Expos.
2010: The Major League Baseball Players Association circulates an expanded list of "dangerous contaminated supplements", which now contains 104 products. These nutritional supplements are legal but potentially contaminated, and could cause false positives under Major League Baseball's policy on performance-enhancing drugs.
2011: Commissioner Bud Selig forms a 12-person committee to study the origins of baseball, with newly-appointed official historian John Thorn as its chair. The issue has been rekindled with the publication this week of Thorn's book, Baseball in the Garden of Eden, which casts doubt on the role of Alexander Cartwright in laying down the fundamental principles of the game. Ironically, Cartwright was promoted as the "real" founder of the game to counteract the unfounded legend that Abner Doubleday had laid down the first baseball diamond in Cooperstown, NY in 1839. Thorn argues that the game is in fact much older than once thought, with traces found in 18th century records.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/caseydo01.shtml
Doc Casey 1901-1902.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dischge01.shtml
George Disch 1905.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/strousa01.shtml
Sailor Stroud 1910.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Robert_Fick
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fickro01.shtml?redir
Robert Fick 1998-2002.
Tigers players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dave_Philley
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/phillda01.shtml?redir
Dave Philley 1957.
from Baseball Reference
