June 17 in Tigers and mlb history:
1925 Hooks Dauss posts his 200th career win, giving him a record of 200-170. Still the all-time leader in Wins by a Tigers pitcher.
1958 - Ozzie Virgil, who became the first black man to play for the Detroit Tigers 11 days earlier, goes 5 for 5 in his first home game at Briggs Stadium. The Dominican's performance helps Detroit beat the Washington Senators 9 - 2.
1960 - Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits his 500th career home run against the Cleveland Indians at Cleveland Stadium. Williams' two-run shot off Wynn Hawkins helps the Red Sox beat Cleveland 3 - 1. Williams becomes the fourth player in major league history to hit 500 home runs, joining Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Mel Ott.
1967 - A nine-hour and five-minute doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Athletics sets a major league record for the longest ever. The first game includes a rain delay, and the second goes 19 innings before a Dave Duncan home run gives the Athletics a 6 - 5 victory. Detroit wins the opener 7 - 6.
1977 It?s one of the more famous regular-season moments of the 1970s. In a Yankees-Red Sox game before a national TV audience on NBC?s Game of the Week, star slugger Reggie Jackson and manager Billy Martin go at it in the dugout. Martin pulls Jackson from the game in mid-inning for lack of hustle, and their argument in the dugout becomes the stuff of baseball lore, cementing Jackson?s reputation as a spoiled star and Martin?s image as a rough manager. In that same game, Yankee pitcher Catfish Hunter has an appearance from hell, surrendering four home runs in just 0.2 innings.
1993: Baseball owners voted overwhelmingly, 26-2, in favor of expanding the playoffs for the first time since 1969. The new system, which will begin in 1994, will double the number of teams that qualify for the postseason to eight by realigning each league to three divisions, with two teams qualifying as wild cards.
1993: the Detroit Tigers hit five home runs, including a pair each by Travis Fryman and Dan Gladden, in a 9 - 5 win over the Cleveland Indians. Fryman, Gladden, and Carlos Baerga of the Cleveland Indians also tie an American League record for three players with two or more home runs in a nine-inning game.
2008 - 5 years ago today, Marcus Thames became 1st Tiger since Willie Horton in 1969 to homer in 5 straight games. No Tiger has done it since. His last 8 hits have all been home runs.
2013 - Max Scherzer of the Tigers improves to 10-0, pitching 6 innings of one-hit ball in a 5 - 1 win over the Orioles. He is the first major league starter to go 10-0 since Roger Clemens in 1997, and just the second in Tigers history, following George Mullin, who began the 1909 season with 11 straight wins.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Claude Rossman 1907-1909.
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Matt Kinzer 1990.
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David Pauley 2011.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
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Jim Hegan 1958, coach 1974-1978.
from baseball reference
