Detroit Tigers Team Notes
December 10 in Tigers and mlb history :
1900 - At the National League meetings at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, rumors fly. Ban Johnson says the American League has signed a lease on a park in Detroit. The Players Protective Association says its members will not sign with the NL.
1924 - The two leagues agree on a permanent rotation for World Series play proposed by Charles Ebbets: first two games at one league's park, next three at the other league's park, last two if needed back at the first league's park, with openers to alternate between leagues. Next year's World Series will commence at the National League city.
1925: The American League goes on record as opposing the use of rosin by pitchers, but the joint rules committee finally votes it in. The committee also agrees that future World Series games are set to start at 1:30 P.M.; 2nd-place money withheld from the eight Black Sox in 1920 is distributed to the other 1920 White Sox; and players signed by August 31st are declared eligible for World Series play. Finally, no times at bat will be charged in a fly ball advances a runner to second base or third base, as well as home.
1940: In Chicago, a curious rule that was designed to "break up the Yankees" is continued by the American League, a rule which prohibits the team winning the championship from trading with any other club. The rule was voted in at the December, 1939 meetings by the seven other AL owners after the New York Yankees won four straight World Series.
The major and minor leagues agree that players taken into the military will not count against roster limits.
The sacrifice fly rule, reinstituted last year, is eliminated for the 1941 season.
1945: For the majors, returning servicemen are given increased protection for one year and the limiting of rosters to 25 players will be delayed until June 15.
1956: Similar to the National League, the Junior Circuit opts for a three-game playoff in case of a tie at the end of the regular season. Previously, a deadlock in the American League had been broken with one-game winner-take-all format. However, the new format will never need to be used until the leagues break into two divisions in 1969.
1972 - The major leagues adopt the save as an official statistic. A pitcher shall be credited with a save if, when entering a game as a reliever, he finds the tying or winning run on base or at the plate, and he preserves the lead. Or he pitches three effective innings and preserves the lead.
1996: The Tigers make their biggest trade since 1957, sending four players to Houston in exchange for five Astros. Detroit C Brad Ausmus, P Jose Lima, lefties C.J. Nitkowski and Trever Miller, and IF Daryle Ward go to the National League for OF Brian Hunter, IF Orlando Miller, and P Doug Brocail and Todd Jones, and a player to come later. Brocail, also involved in the 1994 12-player swap between San Diego and Houston, will be Detroit's Opening Day pitcher in April.
Tigers players birthdays :
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Floyd_Giebell
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/giebefl01.shtml
Floyd Giebell 1939-1941.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jonesda03.shtml
Dalton Jones 1970-1972.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rojasme01.shtml
Mel Rojas 1999.
from baseball reference
