May 19 in Tigers and mlb history:
1906: Rube Waddell's no-hitter is broken up by Ty Cobb's bunt single.
1910: Cy Young wins the 500th game of his career as the Cleveland Naps beat the Washington Senators, 5 - 4, in 11 innings. He is the only pitcher in major league history to ever reach this milestone.
1918: Happy Finneran sent from the Detroit Tigers to St Paul (American Association).
1946: The Boston Red Sox purchased Pinky Higgins from the Detroit Tigers.
1948: The Detroit Tigers released Doc Cramer.
1962: Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes the National League career hits leader. The 41-year-old has a 9th-inning single for his 3,431st hit and moves past Honus Wagner.
1963: Bill Bruton of the Detroit Tigers ties a major league record by collecting four doubles in a win vs. the Senators.
Curiously, Bruton will total only 21 doubles on the season.
1968: After hitting 10 home runs in six consecutive games, establishing a new major league record, Frank Howard of the Washington Senators is stopped by Detroit Tigers pitcher Earl Wilson, who defeats the Senators, 5 - 4, in the first game of a doubleheader.
1968: In the second game of a doubleheader, Al Kaline hits a two-run homer off Washington's Steve Jones to become the Tigers' all-time home run leader, surpassing Hank Greenberg. Detroit wins, 7 - 0, completing a sweep.
1970: The lawsuit filed by former St. Louis Cardinals All-Star Curt Flood against Major League Baseball begins its hearing in federal court. Judge Irving Ben Cooper presides over the case, which will reach the Supreme Court and result in the upholding of baseball's reserve clause.
1979: After a bitter six-week strike, the major league umpires return to work. During the work stoppage, the men in blue were replaced by amateur and minor league arbiters.
1989: The Detroit Tigers purchased Rick Schu from the Baltimore Orioles.
1989: The Detroit Tigers released Chris Brown.
2009: Dontrelle Willis wins his first game in 20 months and his first in a Detroit Tigers uniform as the Tigers shut out theRangers, 4 - 0. Willis retires 17 batters in a row at one point and snaps the Rangers' seven-game winning streak.
2013: Miguel Cabrera hits three homers for the second time of his career, but it's not enough as Texas beats Detroit, 11 - 8. Daniel Murphy hits a three-run homer in the 6th inning for Texas, to negate Cabrera's 4-for-4, 5 RBI night. In his other plate appearance, the Rangers walk Miggy to load the bases, but Prince Fielder follows with a three-run double.
2014: The Tigers see their 11-game road winning streak ended after a very long day. Having been delayed in leaving Boston, MA, they arrive in Cleveland only three hours before game time, then extend the game when J.D. Martinez hits a pinch homer in the 9th to require extra innings.
However, Michael Brantley hits a walk-off homer off Al Alburquerque in the 10th to end the game, 5 - 4.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/salazlu01.shtml
Luis Salazar 1988.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Brandon_Inge
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/i/ingebr01.shtml
Brandon Inge 2001-2012.
Tigers players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownfr02.shtml
Frank Browning 1910.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/ericker01.shtml
Eric Erickson 1916, 1918-1919.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jim_Tobin
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tobinji01.shtml
Jim Tobin 1945.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ed_Mierkowicz
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mierked01.shtml
Ed Mierkowicz 1945, 1947-1948.
from Baseball Reference
