April 26 in Tigers and mlb history:
1904: Ty Cobb, making his pro baseball debut at the age of seventeen, hits a home run and double for the Augusta Tourists in the South Atlantic League.
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April 26, 1904: Ty Cobb Arrives On The Scene.
1951: The Detroit Tigers selected Gene Bearden off waivers from the Washington Senators.
1954: The Detroit Tigers purchased George Zuverink from the Cincinnati Redlegs.
1955: 20 year old Al Kaline hits the first of his 6 career walkoff homers in a 3 - 2 Win over the orioles.
1959: Sadaharu Oh hits the first home run of his Nippon Pro Baseball career. Oh will go on to hit 868 home runs during his stellar career in Japan, setting a record for the most documented home runs in professional baseball history.
1961: At Tiger Stadium, Roger Maris hits his first home run of the season off Paul Foytack, and Mickey Mantle adds home runs from both sides of the plate for the eighth time in his career as New York defeat Detroit.
1969: The Baseball Records Committee decides to give Babe Ruth credit for one more home run during his career for a total of 715. The committee rules that one of Ruth's home runs had been incorrectly ruled a triple. The committee will later reverse its decision, returning Ruth to a total of 714 home runs.
1995: A number of Major League Baseball teams open their season, reduced to 144 games because of the strike.
1996: The Detroit Tigers signed Mike Walker as a free agent.
2012: The Tigers release longtime franchise player Brandon Inge aka 'Check Swing Cringe'.
2013: Anibal Sanchez sets a new Tigers record by striking out 17 batters in 8 innings in beating the Braves, 10 - 0. Mickey Lolich held the previous record with 16. Sanchez strikes out out the side in the 8th to set the record, but having thrown 121 pitches, is not allowed to go out in the 9th to attempt to tie the all-time record of 20.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dale_Alexander
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/alexada01.shtml
Dale Alexander 1929-1932.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Virgil_Trucks
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/truckvi01.shtml
Virgil Trucks 1941-1943, 1945-1952, 1956.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lirafe01.shtml
Felipe Lira 1995-1997, 1999.
from Baseball Reference