July 2 in Tigers and mlb history:
1911 - Detroit pounds out a 14 - 6 victory over Cleveland as Ty Cobb, hitting in his 40th straight game, has three hits and three runs.
Cobb collects 80 hits and bats .476 during his streak, which started on May 15.
1933 - Carl Hubbell pitches an entire 18-inning shutout for the Giants over the Cardinals to tie a record for the longest 1 - 0 game. He strikes out 12 and walks none, allowing only six hits in a duel with Tex Carleton, who goes the first 16 innings. In game 2, played in semi-darkness, Roy Parmelee wins 1 - 0, on a Johnny Vergez home run. The notoriously wild Giants pitcher does not issue a walk and strikes out 13.
1950: Indian great Bob Feller wins his 200th major league game, 5 - 3, over Detroit in the second game of a doubleheader split. Detroit wins the opener, 8 - 5, for their only win in the four-game series.
1956 - NBC pays $16.25 million for the Television and radio rights to the All-Star Game and the World Series. The players' pension fund will get 60 percent of the revenues.
1963: In one of baseball's most memorable pitching duels, the Giants' Juan Marichal and the Braves' Warren Spahn both hurl 15 scoreless innings before Willie Mays ends the marathon with a homer off Spahnie in the bottom of the 16th, giving San Francisco a 1- 0 win.
1970: Detroit's Joe Niekro no-hits the Yankees until Horace Clarke singles in the 9th inning. The Tigers win, 5 - 0. This is the third time in the month that Clarke has broken up a no-hitter, having spoiled bids by Kansas City's Jim Rooker (June 4th) and Boston's Sonny Siebert (June 19th).
1973 Detroit signs amateur free agent and former inmate Ron LeFlore.
2002 - The Tigers and White Sox tie their own major league record by hitting a combined 12 homers. Each team slugs six homers, with Robert Fick, Dmitri Young (2), Damion Easley, George Lombard, and Wendell Magee going deep for Detroit in Chicago?s Comiskey Park. The White Sox come out on top in the slugfest, 17-9.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcgehpa01.shtml
Pat McGehee 1912.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/engligi01.shtml
Gil English 1936-1937.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wagneha01.shtml
Hal Wagner 1947-1948.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burnspe01.shtml
Pete Burnside 1959-1960.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sparkst01.shtml
Steve Sparks 2000-2003.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Sean_Casey
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Sean Casey 2006-2007.
from baseball reference
