September 18 in Tigers and mlb history:
1909: Before 35,409, the largest paid baseball attendance ever, Chief Bender beats Bill Donovan and the Tigers 2 - 0 at Philadelphia to keep the A's in the pennant race. The A's are 14-8 against Detroit this year, setting an American League record for most wins against the pennant winner. Ty Cobb is the Triple Crown winner with a .377 BA, nine home runs (all inside-the-park), and 107 RBI. He also will lead the American League with 216 hits, 116 runs, and 296 total bases. His 76 stolen bases make him the only player ever to win a quadruple crown.
1931: Lefty Grove wins his 30th game, beating the White Sox, 3 - 1, on five hits. He is the first to win 30 since Jim Bagby of Cleveland in 1920 and will be the last American League hurler to do so until Denny McLain in 1968.
1965: On Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium, 50,180 fans see Mantle play his 2,000th game. Joe DiMaggio and Bobby Kennedy are on hand as Mantle is given a barbecue grill in the shape of a prairie schooner and a six-foot Kosher salami weighing 100 pounds. In Mantle's first at bat, Detroit's Joe Sparma comes off the mound to shake his hand. Mick then flies out. Detroit wins 4 - 3 with reliever Denny McLain getting the win.
1967: Boston rallies to beat the 1st place Tigers in Detroit. A Carl Yastrzemski home run, his 40th, ties the game 5 - 5 in the 9th inning and a solo home run by Dalton Jones wins it in the 10th. Hours later, Detroit will receive another blow when Denny McLain allegedly leaps off a couch and sprains his left ankle. He will not pitch until the last game of the year.
Minnesota keeps pace by beating Kansas City 2 - 0 behind Jim Kaat's 6-hitter. The White Sox lose 3 - 2 to the Angels when Rick Reichardt hits a 9th-inning RBI single. Boston, Detroit, and Minnesota are now tied for 1st, with Chicago in 4th place, a half-game back.
1984: The Tigers clinch the American League East championship with a 3 - 0 win over the Brewers as starter Randy O'Neal records his first ML win. Detroit becomes the 4th team this century to be in first place every day of the season, joining the 1923 Giants, the 1927 Yankees, and the 1955 Dodgers.
1987 - In Detroit's 7 - 6 win over the Brewers, Darrell Evans belts his 40th homer of the year. He is the first 40-year-old to hit 40 homers.
2012: The Tigers defeat the red-hot Athletics, 12 - 2, but lose P Max Scherzer, who departs after two innings with shoulder fatigue. Miguel Cabrera homers twice, including a grand slam in the 8th, and drives in 6 runs; Prince Fielder and Jhonny Peralta also homer.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Uhle
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George Uhle 1929-1933.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dejohma01.shtml
Mark DeJohn 1982.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/masonro01.shtml
Roger Mason 1984.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/earlsc01.shtml
Scott Earl 1984.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/holtch01.shtml
Chris Holt 2001.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/melusmi01.shtml
Mitch Meluskey 2002.
from baseball reference
