May 20 in Tigers and mlb history:
1912 The Detroit Tigers currently are on strike to protest the suspension of Ty Cobb for attacking a fan. Today, American League honcho Ban Johnson threatens all the Tiger players with lifetime suspensions if they don?t return to play. In reply, Cobb asks his teammates to end their strike.
1921 - Hal Newhouser is born in Detroit, Michigan. In 1939, Newhouser will make his major league debut for his hometown team, the Detroit Tigers. A left-handed pitcher, he will win 207 games over a 17-year career and will gain Hall of Fame honors in 1992.
1959 - The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees, 13 - 6, to put New York in last place for the first time in 19 years.
1971 - Martin Dihigo dies in Cienfuegos, Cuba, at the age of 65. Over the course of his career, Dihigo made seamless transitions between all nine positions and played in several countries. As a hitter, he won both batting average and home run titles; as a pitcher, he won more than 250 games and once defeated Satchel Paige while touring Cuba. He will be elected to the American Hall of Fame in 1977 and also was or will be voted into the Cuban, Mexican and Latin American Baseball Hall of Fame.
1983 - Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton passes Walter Johnson to move into second place on the all-timestrikeout list. Carlton's four strikeouts put him at 3,511, just 10 behind Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros. Ryan had bettered Johnson's record earlier in the month.
2012: Max Scherzer strikes out 15 batters in 7 innings to lead the Tigers to a 4 - 3 win over the Pirates. The strikeouts are one shy of the club record of 16, held by Mickey Lolich, and are the highest total in the major leagues so far this season.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/murphjo03.shtml
John Murphy 1903.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hal_Newhouser
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/newhoha01.shtml?redir
Hal Newhouser 1939-1953.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rappea01.shtml
Earl Rapp 1949.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Morgan
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/morgato01.shtml?redir
Tom Morgan 1958-1960.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/David_Wells
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wellsda01.shtml?redir
David Wells 1993-1995.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/garcilu01.shtml
Luis Garcia 1999.
Tigers players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Aber
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aberal01.shtml?redir
Al Aber 1953-1957.
from Baseball Reference
