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November 1 in Tigers and mlb history:

1949 - Gillette buys the World Series television rights for $1.37 million, the money to be dedicated to the players' pension fund.

1968 - Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain is the unanimous American League winner of the Cy Young Award. McLain posted a 31-6 record with 280 strikeouts and a 1.96 ERA, helping Detroit to the AL pennant.

1982: At a meeting in Chicago, the major league owners vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract. The American League owners vote in favor of Kuhn 11-3, and the National League 7-5. But his 18 votes leave him 2 shy of the three-fourths majority required for reelection. Kuhn will remain on the job until a successor is found. He will eventually be replaced by Peter Ueberroth.

1997 - The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opens in its new home in Kansas City, Missouri. It had been occupying a temporary site there for four years.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Heinie_Schuble
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schubhe01.shtml
Heinie Schuble 1929, 1932-1935.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Pat_Mullin
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mullipa01.shtml?redir
Pat Mullin 1940-1941, 1946-1953, scout 1957-1963, coach 1963-1966.
Last Tigers player to wear Number 6 before Kaline.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/willied01.shtml
Eddie Williams 1996.

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Most World Series RBI before turning 23:
10 Mickey Mantle
9 Ty Cobb
8 Addison Russell
8 Jimmie Foxx
7 Joe DiMaggio
 
November 2 in Tigers and mlb history:

1910, Ty Cobb and other Tigers play in the first of several exhibition games against Latin and black ballplayers in Cuba. Though reports of the games are hard to confirm, Cobb performed well, though he was thrown out attempting to steal by black catcher Bruce Petway, one of the best negro league players of the era.
Cobb also faces John “Pop” Lloyd, a talented shortstop known at the time as “The Black Honus Wagner.”

1937 - American League batting champ Charlie Gehringer of the Detroit Tigers is named Most Valuable Player, receiving 78 out of a possible 80 points. The New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio is a close second, four points behind, while Gehringer's teammate Hank Greenberg, who had 183 RBI, is a distant third. Gehringer also becomes the third Detroit player in four years to be named MVP.

1960: New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris defeats teammate Mickey Mantle for the American League MVP Award, 225-222, the second-closest vote ever, behind Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams' race in 1947.

1964 - CBS becomes the first corporate owner of a major league team, buying eighty percent of the New York Yankees for $11,200,000.

1999 - In a ten-player megatrade, the Texas Rangers send outfielder Juan Gonzalez, pitcher Danny Patterson and catcher Gregg Zaun to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for Ps Justin Thompson, Alan Webb and Francisco Cordero, OF Gabe Kapler, C Bill Haselman, and infielder Frank Catalanotto.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chief_Hogsett
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hogsech01.shtml?redir
Chief Hogsett 1929-1936, 1944.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/betemwi01.shtml?redir
Wilson Betemit 2011.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/merceme01.shtml
Melvin Mercedes 2014.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Joe_Ginsberg
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/ginsbjo01.shtml?redir
Joe Ginsburg 1948, 1950-1953.

from baseball reference
 
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