May 22 in Tigers and mlb history:
1907: American League umpire Billy Evans needs a police escort after argumentative Detroit Tigers manager Hughie Jennings incites a riot. Jennings will be suspended.
1919: Star Tigers Leftfielder Bobby Veach gets his 1,000th hit.
1922: The Yankees, who have been sharing the Polo Grounds with the Giants since 1913, begin construction on their own stadium in the Bronx.
1933: Joe Sewell of the Yankees fans for the first time this season, a 3 - 0 win behind Lefty Gomez over Cleveland. Sewell will strike out only three more times in 524 at bats this year.
1937: Facing Wes Ferrell in Boston, Hank Greenberg hits a long centerfield home run out of Fenway Park. It exits to the right of the flag pole and is called the longest home run ever hit at Fenway. Gee Walker has three hits to run his hitting streak to 26 straight games, but the Red Sox counter with 14 hits of their own to win, 11 - 9. Walker's streak will end on the 24th after 27 games.
1942: The Detroit Tigers signed Charlie Gehringer as a free agent.
1942: Ted Williams is sworn into the U.S. Navy, but will remain with the Red Sox until he is called for active duty.
1952: The Celler committee finds legislation for government control of baseball to be unnecessary. It says that the sport can solve its own problems, and opposes legislation exempting the reserve clause from antitrust laws.
1956: Detroit's Red Wilson belts a two-run home run in the bottom of the 9th to give the Tigers a 3 - 2 win against theYankees. The loss goes to Whitey Ford, his first following six wins. Ford had given up just five earned runs through 54 innings before today.
1960: With Rocky Colavito on the bench because of poor hitting, the Tigers sweep the visiting Red Sox, 6 - 2 and 5 - 2. Boston has now lost nine straight and will extend that to 10 games before winning. Jim Bunning and Hank Aguirre notch the wins, as the Hubmen strand 15 runners in the nitecap.
1970: The Detroit Tigers traded Fred Lasher to the Cleveland Indians for Russ Nagelson and Billy Rohr.
1985: The Detroit Tigers returned Jim Weaver (earlier draft pick) to the Minnesota Twins.
2002: The Tigers defeat the Indians, 2 - 0, on Jeff Weaver's one-hitter. OF Chris Magruder's double with two outs in the 8th inning in his Cleveland debut is the Tribe's only hit.
2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Jair Jurrjens as an amateur free agent.
2013: Known for his tape-measure blasts, Miguel Cabrera gets some help from Indians CF Michael Bourn in knocking one out in the 8th, as Bourn is about to make the catch at the warning track when the ball bounces off his glove and into the stands for a home run. Detroit wins, 11 - 7. The game is delayed by rain for over an hour in the 5th inning, but Justin Verlander still returns to record the final two outs of the frame, thus qualifying for the win; there is another 48-minute delay in the 8th but the game is played to its conclusion.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Al Shaw 1901.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Simmons
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Al Simmons 1936.
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Al Levine 2004.
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Jose Mesa 2007.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
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Bob Wood 1904-1905.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Fred_Hatfield
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Fred Hatfield 1952-1956, coach 1977-1978.
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Alan Koch 1963-1964.
from Baseball Reference
