April 27 in Tigers and mlb history:
1947 - Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium draws a crowd of more than 58,000 to honor the ailing star.
1971: Curt Flood jumps the Washington Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark, ending his playing career. Flood batted .293 and won seven Gold Glove Awards during his 15-year major league tenure. He will continue his antitrust suit, which will eventually reach the Supreme Court.
1971: Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves joins Babe Ruth and Willie Mays as the only major league players to hit 600 home runs. His historic homer, a 350-foot drive over the left field wall, comes off Gaylord Perry in the third inning of a 6 - 5 ten-inning loss to the San Francisco Giants at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
1973 - Steve Busby of the Kansas City Royals pitches his first of two career no-hitters with a 3 - 0 victory over Detroit. It is the first Royals no-hitter and the first at Tiger Stadium since Virgil Trucks did it in 1952. Busby also becomes the first no-hit game pitcher not to bat after the American League's introduction of the designated hitter rule.
1983 - Walter Johnson's 56-year record of 3,508 career strikeouts is eclipsed by Nolan Ryan.
2012 - The Tigers' Delmon Young is arrested in Manhattan after a confrontation outside the Hilton Hotel in the early morning. He is charged with aggravated harassment but also with a hate crime for hurling ant-semitic insults and attacking a group of passers-by while visibly intoxicated.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wintege01.shtml
George Winter 1908.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/archige01.shtml
George Archie 1938.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/macdoro01.shtml
Bob McDonald 1993.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/catalfr01.shtml
Frank Catalanotto 1997-1999.
Tigers players and scouts who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Harlond_Clift
Harlond Clift scout late 1940's.
from Baseball Reference
