July 4 in Tigers and mlb history: Happy Fourth of July everyone!!!!
1906: Major league attendance for today's holiday games has the American League with 75,000 and the National League at 68,000.
1911: In the morning game between Chicago and Detroit, Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak, as the White Sox win. Cobb had hit .491 since the streak started on May 15th.
1912: Three weeks after the Tigers ask waivers on George Mullin, he pitches himself a 32nd birthday present at Detroit, a 7 - 0 no-hitter over the Browns. Mullin helps his victory with three hits and two RBIs. In the morning game, a 9 - 3 Detroit win, Ty Cobb steals second, third base and home in the 5th inning against the battery of George Baumgardner and Paul Krichell. Cobb has stolen home five times this season; this is his first swipe of home in his last eight successes that didn't occur in the 1st inning.
1932 - 200-game winner Earl Whitehill enjoys the best Game Score of his career: 86. His line: 9 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, and 3 K. It?s his only complete-game one-hitter. Goose Goslin got the hit against him. Today is also the only time Goslin starts a game at third base.
1934: In a Negro National League game, Satchel Paige pitches a 4 - 0 no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Crawfords against the Homestead Grays in Pittsburgh, with only a walk and an error spoiling a perfect game. He strikes out 17. Legend claims that he then drives to Chicago to shut out the Chicago American Giants 1 - 0 in 12 innings, giving him two shutouts in two different cities in the same day, but the claim has since been disproven. The no-hitter, however, is documented.
1939: It's Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium and the "Iron Horse"'s uniform number 4 will be the first ever to be retired. After emcee Sid Mercer informs the sell-out crowd the man of the hour is too moved to speak, Gehrig changes his mind when Skipper Joe McCarthy encourages him, and delivers the keynote address describing himself as "the luckiest man on the face of the earth".
1969 - Mickey Lolich wins his ninth straight decision, his longest stretch.
2000: In the Tigers' 11 - 0 blowout over Tampa Bay, Shane Halter takes over the catching duties in the 8th from Detroit's Brad Ausmus. Halter has now played every position in the majors: with the Royals, he pitched on July 17, 1998. Dave Mlicki is the winner with Dean Palmer powering a pair of home runs.
2001: The fifty people stranded on the Ferris wheel ride at Comerica Park for two hours during the Royal-Tiger game are rescued by firefighters and emergency crews using a cherry picker and a fire truck ladder. The inconvenienced fans will receive tickets to another game, free dinner and team autographs from the Tigers.
2007 - Todd Jones records his 200th save for the Detroit Tigers. Jones pitches a scoreless ninth inning in Detroit?s 6-4 victory over the Indians at Comerica Park. Jones is the only Tiger reliever to save as many as 200 games.
2013 - Austin Jackson goes 4 for 5 with a two-run homer and Justin Verlander pitches seven shutout innings to pick up his 9th win as Detroit demolishes Toronto, 11 - 1. Torii Hunter has 3 RBIs and Prince Fielder adds a couple more as the Tigers' other sluggers compensate for the absence of Miguel Cabrera, who takes a rare day off.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Mullin
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mullige01.shtml?redir
George Mullin 1902-1913.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bill_Tuttle
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tuttlbi01.shtml?redir
Bill Tuttle 1952, 1954-1957.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Babe_Birrer
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/birreba01.shtml?redir
Babe Birrer 1955.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/crucefr01.shtml
Francisco Cruceta 2008.
Tigers and Detroit Stars players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bruce_Petway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Petway
http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=petway000bru
Bruce Petway Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1919-1925.
from baseball reference
