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November 25 in Tigers and mlb history:

1914 - Future Hall of Fame outfielder Joe DiMaggio is born in Martinez, California. The son of Italian immigrants, DiMaggio will make his major league debut in 1936 after starring in the Pacific Coast League and will spend his entire big league playing career with the New York Yankees.

1944 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first Major League Baseball Commissioner, dies of a heart attack at age 78 in Chicago. Landis had ruled over baseball since November 1920 in the wake of the Black Sox scandal, and wielded authority perhaps unparalleled in any other industry. Landis had entered the hospital on October 2nd. He will elected to the Hall of Fame on December 9th in a special ballot.

1949 - Ted Williams, who lost the Triple Crown when his batting average was .0002 below that of George Kell, wins the American League MVP Award vote in a landslide. Phil Rizzuto and Joe Page finish second and third in the voting.

2002: Detroit sends 1B Randall Simon to Pittsburgh in exchange for Adrian Burnside and a player to be named later.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ray_Narleski
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/narlera01.shtml?redir
Ray Narleski 1959.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wayne_Redmond
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/redmowa01.shtml?redir
Wayne Redmond 1965, 1969.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Don_Leshnock
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leshndo01.shtml?redir
Don Leshnock 1972.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/veresra01.shtml
Randy Veres 1996.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Octavio_Dotel
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/doteloc01.shtml?redir
Octavio Dotel 2012-2013.

from baseball reference
 
November 26 in Tigers and mlb history:

1950 - The Gillette Safety Razor Co. signs a six-year deal, worth an estimated $6 million, with Major League Baseball for the TV-radio rights for the World Series.

1975 - Boston Red Sox center fielder Fred Lynn becomes the first rookie ever to be named American League Most Valuable Player. Lynn, who batted .331 with 21 home runs, 105 RBI, and league-leading figures in runs (103), doubles (47), and slugging percentage (.566), helped Boston to the American League East title. He also won Rookie of the Year honors.

1996 - Less than three weeks after major league owners voted 18-12 against ratification of baseball's new collective bargaining agreement, owners vote again and this time approve it by a vote of 26-4. The landmark agreement brings interleague play to the regular season for the first time, as well as revenue sharing among owners and a payroll tax on players.

1999 - Arbitrator Alan Symonette rejects the owners' attempt to dismiss the umpires' grievance, giving the 22 umps booted as a result of last season's disastrous mass resignation strategy a chance to get their jobs back. Symonette will hear the grievance beginning December 13th.

2009: New York Yankees Public Address announcer Bob Sheppard officially retires at the age of 99. Known as the "Voice of God," Sheppard had been the Yankees PA announcer from 1951 to 2007 before his deteriorating health forced him to step down. He briefly returned in 2008 to announce the Yankees lineup for the final game at the old Yankee Stadium.

2010, the Tigers sign free agent DH/catcher Victor Martinez to a four-year, $50 million contract. Martinez is a switch-hitting career .300 batter and a four-time All-Star.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kerrjo01.shtml
John Kerr 1923-1924.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Richie_Hebner
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hebneri01.shtml?redir
Richie Hebner 1980-1982.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mooremi01.shtml
Mike Moore 1993-1995.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/knebeco01.shtml
Corey Knebel 2014.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hub_Walker
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/walkehu01.shtml?redir
Hub Walker 1931, 1935, 1945.

from baseball reference
 
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The Tigers' Hall-of-Famer-less roster streak, 1975-present
This streak will likely end in the next five years when Pudge Rodriguez is up for election. (Jay Jaffe guesstimates that this will happen around 2020.) But when Al Kaline retired in 1974, little did he know that he?d be the last Hall of Famer on a Tigers active roster for 40 years and counting.

Sparky Anderson did manager the team from 1975-1999, and managers do wear uniforms, so the team can at least hang their hat on that. But he never played for the Tigers, although on some of those early 90s teams, he might as well have tried.

The arguments for Jack Morris, Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell just didn?t convince the voters (or currently aren?t). Gary Sheffield, who is still on the ballot, probably isn?t getting in either. Miguel Cabrera seems Hall-bound once he hangs up his large jersey, and if Justin Verlander hangs around long enough could limp his way into discussion, but Pudge Rodriguez still ultimately seems like the slumpbuster, in which case the drought will only be 1975-2003, at which we get back to talking about Trammell and Whitaker.

BaseballProspectus
 
http://www.fanragsports.com/mlb/trading-kinsler-hurt-tigers/
Trading Kinsler could hurt Tigers the most.

Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander are the biggest stars on the Detroit Tigers’ expensive roster.
They aren’t the best players, though.
For the past three seasons, one player has consistently ranked as the most valuable Tiger – second baseman Ian Kinsler.
From 2014-16, Kinsler earned 17.8 WAR, well ahead of Cabrera’s 15.1 and the 11.1 earned by J.D. Martinez.
Verlander leads the pitchers with 9.8, and no one else is above six.
 
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