April 6 in Tigers and mlb history:
1903 - Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane is born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Cochrane will make his major league debut in 1925, when he bats .331 for the Philadelphia Athletics. A standout defensive catcher, Cochrane will bat .320 over a 13-year career. He will gain Hall of Fame honors in 1947.
1928 - Playing in the Philadelphia city series between the A's and the Phillies? Ty Cobb makes an unassisted double play.
1971: Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hits a home run on Opening Day, marking the start of a historic streak. Mays will hit home runs in each of the Giants' first four games, setting a major league record that will later be tied.
1972 - The first general strike in the history of the major leagues officially begins with the cancellation of Opening Day games in both leagues. The strike will be settled seven days later when the players and owners come to agreement on pension fund payments. The two sides agree not to make up the 86 missed games.
1973: The Pittsburgh Pirates retire Roberto Clemente's uniform number 21 in a moving pre-game ceremony before 51,695 fans at Three Rivers Stadium. The 38-year-old Clemente died in a plane crash the previous New Year's Eve.
1982: A freak heavy spring snow storm brings sub-freezing temperatures across the northeast and midwest and causes the postponement of home openers for the Yankees, Tigers, White Sox, Brewers, Indians, Phillies and Pirates.
1996: Tiger CF Melvin Nieves bangs two doubles? a triple and a homer as the Tigers top the A's? 6 - 1. Nieves was acquired from the Padres in a spring training trade.
2006: Using his newly-perfected knuckleball, Texas P R.A. Dickey ties a post-1900 major league record by surrendering six homers to the Tigers in a 10 - 6 Detroit victory. The only major league pitcher to give up more homers was Charlie Sweeney of the St. Louis Maroons, who allowed seven to the Detroit Wolverines on June 12, 1886. Detroit clouts 7 round-trippers in the contest, and sets a major league record with 15 homers in their first three games, breaking the mark of 10 set by the 1998 Mariners. The Tigers set a team record for any three-game span, breaking the mark of 14, set in 1997.
1999: The U.S. government garnishes Denny McLain's pension in order to reimburse the pension fund that he was convicted of laundering money from. McLain was recently divorced and under the terms of the settlement? all of his assets went to his wife? including his pension? while McLain got all of the debts. But? a federal judge overruled that and ordered that all of McLain's pension benefits be used to reimburse his victims.
Tigers players and managers birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mickey_Cochrane
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cochrmi01.shtml?redir
http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/cochrmi01.shtml
Mickey Cochrane 1934-1937, manager 1934-1938.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Phil_Regan
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reganph01.shtml?redir
Phil Regan 1960-1965.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/willike02.shtml
Ken Williams 1989-1990.
Tigers players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wyattjo02.shtml
John Wyatt 1968.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lou_Berberet
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berbelo01.shtml?redir
Lou Berberet 1959-1960.
from Baseball Reference
