July 15 in Tigers and mlb history:
1900: Detroit Tigers manager George Stallings, afraid that his home crowd would injure umpire Joe Cantillon after the previous day's hostilities, refuses to let him work, and is ready to forfeit today's game to the Cleveland Lake Shores. But Lake Shores manager Jimmy McAleer agrees to play using reserve player Sport McAllister as the ump, and Detroit wins 6 - 1.
1909 - Ty Cobb has two inside-the-park homers to lead the Detroit Tigers to a sweep of the Washington Nationals. Detroit wins 9 - 5 and 7 - 0.
1924 - Ty Cobb bangs out his 600th career double.
1926 Hall of Fame second baseman Charlie Gehringer blasts his first home run. It comes off star pitcher Urban Shocker of the Yankees.
1934: Lou Gehrig returns to 1B and goes 4 for 4, including 3 doubles, off Schoolboy Rowe, but the New York Yankees lose to the Detroit Tigers 8 - 3.
1936: After an absence of several weeks, manager Mickey Cochrane rejoins the Detroit Tigers in New York, as they split a doubleheader with the Yankees. The Tigers take the opener 5 - 1, then lose 7 - 4, as New York maintains its 9-game lead. Cochrane will suffer a relapse and coach Del Baker will take over on the 21st.
1942 - "There is no rule, formal or informal, against the hiring of Negro players," says Judge Landis in response to an editorial in the New York Daily Worker newspaper.
1951: Happy Chandler completes his contract as baseball commissioner, but fails to win the owners' support for a renewal.
1960: At Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a three-run homer off Don Mossi, but the Detroit Tigers rally with homeruns from 3B Eddie Yost and RF Rocky Colavito to win 8 - 4.
1969: With President Richard Nixon attending his fifth game of the season, the Washington Senators beat the Detroit Tigers again, 7 - 3. The Tigers pull off the first triple play of the year when Ed Brinkman grounds to 3B Don Wert. Tim Cullen, hitting .206, drives in four runs with a single, double and home run.
1973: Before 41,411 in Detroit, California Angels ace Nolan Ryan hurls his second no-hitter of the season in taming the Detroit Tigers, 6 - 0. Ryan fans 17 batters, the most ever in a 9-inning no-hitter, including eight straight, but only one over the last two innings. Nolan's arm stiffens while watching his team rally for five runs in the top of the 8th. With two outs in the 9th, Norm Cash, who had struck out his three other times at bat, comes to bat wielding a piano leg. Umpire Ron Luciano points out the illegality and Cash then pops out using a regulation bat. Ryan's eight strikeouts in a row ties the American League record he set last year.
1982 - The Detroit Tigers collect nine hits and drop 11 runs on the Minnesota Twins in the first inning, en route to an 18 - 2 smackdown of the Twins. Dan Petry is the winning pitcher. Tom Brookens and Alan Trammell hit back-to-back home runs off reliever John Pacella.
1985 - During the first day of the All-Star break before the Mid-summer Classic to be played in Minneapolis, the Players' Association sets an August 6 strike date. The union will keep its word, but the season will resume two days later.
2000 - The Detroit Tigers retire Willie Horton?s #23 and also dedicate his statue at Comerica Park. Horton is the only player not in the Baseball Hall of Fame who is so honored by the club.
2001: Umpires file a grievance against Major League Baseball, saying the commissioner's office is pressuring them to call more strikes by keeping track of total pitch counts. As part of these efforts, cameras were installed over the weekend, July 13 and 14, at Shea Stadium to track each pitch. Fenway Park and Shea are the only parks with the tracking system, which is similar to that used on Fox's broadcasts, but major league officials hope to have four more by September.
2008 - The American League defeats the National League, 4 - 3, in 15 innings at the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. It is the first extra-inning win ever for the AL after seven losses and one tie. The two teams combine for a record 7 steals, six of them by the American League. The game goes 4 hours and 50 minutes, also a record.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oldhare01.shtml
Red Oldham 1914-1915, 1920-1922.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rogaljo01.shtml
Joe Rogalski 1938.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/millebo03.shtml
Bob Miller 1953-1956.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/livinsc01.shtml
Scott Livingstone 1991-1994.
from baseball reference
