August 12 in Tigers and mlb history:
1912: Three men attack Ty Cobb on his way to the Detroit rail station. Cobb sustains a cut on his shoulder, but catches one of his attackers and pistol-whips him. Cobb then travels to Syracuse and gets two hits in an exhibition game.
1932: American League president Will Harridge upholds Detroit's protest of its August 1st game against New York and orders it replayed on September 8. Detroit had protested because Tony Lazzeri's and Ben Chapman's batting order was orally reversed after the lineup cards were handed in before the game.
1945: In the lid-lifter at Briggs Stadium? pitcher Jim Tobin acquired on waivers? pitches 3 scoreless innings against New York and clubs a 3-run game-ending homer in the bottom of the 11th to win 9 - 6. Another former Brave Jim Turner? serves up the homer. The Tigers win the nitecap 8 - 2? behind Hal Newhouser's 18th win.
1947 - After losing the first game to Detroit 7 - 1? the Browns take the nitecap 6 - 5? beating Hal Newhouser in relief. For Newhouser? it is his first loss to the Browns after 15 consecutive wins.
1953: At St. Louis? Ray Boone smashes his 4th grand slam of the year to tie a ML record? as the Tigers win 7 - 3 over the Browns.
1964 - Mickey Mantle sets a major league record when hits a home run from both sides of the plate for the 10th time in his career. Mantle hits a left-handed homer off Ray Herbert over the 461-foot marker in centerfield that lands 15 rows into the bleachers, 502 feet from the plate.
1970 - Judge Irving Ben Cooper rules against Curt Flood in his antitrust suit. Cooper says "Decisions of the Supreme Court are not lightly overruled... We find no general or widespread disregard of the extremely important position the player occupies... Clearly the preponderance of credible proof does not favor elimination of the reserve clause." However the judge says changes in the reserve clause should be made through negotiation, but denied Flood damages.
1974: Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford head a group of 6 inductees at Cooperstown.
1980 - Tiger Stadium is packed with 48?361 fans to see Mark Fidrych's return to the big leagues a 5 - 4 loss to the Red Sox. The 1976 American League Rookie of the Year will go 2-3 with a 5.73 ERA in what will be his final attempt to come back from injury? and his last ML season.
1984: Harmon Killebrew? Rick Ferrell? Don Drysdale? Pee Wee Reese? and Luis Aparicio are inducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown? New York.
1987 - The Detroit Tigers, needing pitching help for the pennant drive, acquire Doyle Alexander from the Atlanta Braves for minor league pitcher John Smoltz. Alexander will go 10-1 for the Tigers, but Smoltz will turn out to be a perennial All-Star.
1990 - Alan Trammell has four extra-base hits in one game, three doubles and a homer, for one of the best games of his career, but Tigers + Jack Morris lose to the indians.
1993 - The Tigers defeat the Orioles 17 - 11? as C Chad Kreuter hits a grand slam. It marks the third consecutive game in which a Tiger has hit a grand slam? tying a major league record set by the Milwaukee Brewers in 1978. The two teams combine for 37 hits. Travis Fryman is the only one with 4 hits including 3 doubles.
1994 - Major League Baseball players go on strike. For the first time in 90 years, the World Series will not be held.
2007 - Magglio Ord??ez homers twice in the 2nd inning as the Tigers score eight against Dallas Braden. He becomes the second player in Detroit Tigers history to hit two home runs in an inning. All-time great rightfielder Al Kaline was the other back on April 17, 1955.
Tigers players and managers birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hallma01.shtml
Marc Hall 1913-1914.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Fred_Hutchinson
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hutchfr01.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/hutchfr01.shtml
Fred Hutchinson 1939-1940, 1946-1953, manager 1952-1954.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lugour01.shtml
Urbano Lugo 1990.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Kyle_Lobstein
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lobstky01.shtml
Kyle Lobstein 2014-2015.
from baseball reference
