July 7 in Tigers and mlb history:
1912: To fend off possible future challenges to the legality of the standard contract and its reserve clause, new wording provides for compensation to the player for the right to renew. A player's salary is specified as 75 percent for his services and 25 percent for the privilege of reserving them for the following season.
1922: Commissioner Landis bars major league teams from playing in Montreal.
1935: At a special meeting, the American League owners raise the waiver price to $7,500.
1948: The Indians stun the baseball world by signing Satchel Paige, veteran Negro League pitcher. The move is ridiculed by some as a Bill Veeck publicity stunt, and J.G. Taylor Spink in The Sporting News editorializes, "Veeck has gone too far in his quest for publicity [...] To sign a hurler at Paige's age is to demean the standards of baseball in the big circuits."
The 42-year-old Paige will answer the critics in his first game tomorrow, getting a relief decision in a 8 - 6 win over New York in a doubleheader sweep. He will finish at 6 - 1. Paige is the oldest player to debut in the majors, but not the first 40-year-old: Chuck Hostetler in 1944 was 40.
1951: OF Hoot Evers of the Tigers goes 5 for 5 and scores five runs against the Indians as the motor city men roll, 13 - 3. Bob Cain is the victor with batterymate Joe Ginsberg driving in five runs on four hits.
1959: At Forbes Field, Hank Aaron's eighth-inning single ties the score and a triple hit by Willie Mays plates Aaron with the winning run in the 5 - 4 All-Star victory in the first of the two Mid-Summer Classics to be played during the season. Don Drysdale pitches perfect ball the first three innings.
1964: Johnny Callison's 9th-inning 3-run home run off Dick Radatz caps a 4-run rally and gives the National League a 7 - 4 win in the All-Star Game at Shea Stadium. This evens the series at 17.
1968: Denny McLain, the major leagues' winningest pitcher with 16, helps Detroit take a 9 1/2 game lead in the American League at the All-Star break, as the Tigers sweep the A's, 5 - 4 and 7 - 6.
McLain wins the opener when Willie Horton clubs a 3-run homer,
and Tigers beat A's 7-6; Lolich strikes out Reggie Jackson to save win for Sparma (7-8). Al Kaline slugs a 3-run homer in the nitecap.
1970: The Detroit Tigers signed Steve Grilli as an amateur free agent.
1971: Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that players from the Negro Leagues elected to the Hall of Fame will be given full membership in the museum. It had been previously announced that they would be honored in a separate wing.
1998: In the highest-scoring game in All-Star history, the American League beats the senior circuit, 13 - 8 in the thin air at Coors Field in Denver in the 69th All-Star Game. The 21-run total surpasses the previous record set in 1954 when the American League beat the Nationals, 11 - 9 in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. Baltimore's Roberto Alomar is named the game's MVP, going 3 for 4 with a home run, RBI, stolen base and two runs scored.
2005: The sports of baseball and softball are dropped from the for the 2012 Olympic Games scheduled to take place in London. It is the first time in 69 years that events have been cut from the games. There is criticism that these events are American-dominated, though the Cuban national team won Gold in 2004 and Australia won Silver. Japan and South Korea have appeared in the Silver Medal game in the past as well. Another reason given is that top professional players do not always appear, though Nippon Pro Baseball and the Korea Baseball Organization have routinely sent their top stars, as does the Cuban National League.
2006: The Detroit Tigers signed Jason Karnuth as a free agent.
2006: The Detroit Tigers released Hector Mercado.
2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Nate Bump as a free agent.
Tigers players and managers birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/suggsge01.shtml
George Suggs 1908-1909.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Moriarty
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moriage02.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/moriage02.shtml
George Moriarty 1909-1915, manager 1927-1928.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=radcli001ted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Radcliffe
http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/players/Radcliffe.html
Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1928-1929, 1931.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clarkme01.shtml
Mel Clark 1957.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/spencge01.shtml
George Spencer 1958, 1960.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithge04.shtml
George Smith 1963-1965.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gladdda01.shtml
Dan Gladden 1992-1993.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/figaral01.shtml
Alfredo Figaro 2009-2010.
Tigers players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Deacon_White
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/whitede01.shtml
Deacon White Detroit Wolverines 1886-1888.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/duganjo01.shtml
Joe Dugan 1931.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/u/unseral01.shtml
Al Unser 1942-1944.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Vic_Wertz
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wertzvi01.shtml
Vic Wertz 1947-1952, 1961-1963.
from baseball reference
