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November 6 in Tigers and mlb history:

1886: The Sporting News publishes the official National League averages, which show King Kelly as the batting champ with a .388 average, 17 points ahead of Cap Anson. The paper previously had printed its own stats showing Anson ahead, .374 to .366.

1922: Morgan G. Bulkeley, first president of the National League and later governor of Connecticut and U.S. senator, dies. As president of the Hartford Dark Blues club, Bulkeley presided over the NL's first meeting and headed the league for one year. He will be elected to the Hall of Fame in 1937, in spite of his relatively short involvement in baseball.

1938: The brothers Joe, Vince and Dom DiMaggio play together for the first time, making up an outfield for an All-Star team in a West Coast charity game.

1939: In a trade of veteran shortstops - or "worn-out shortstops‚" as one newspaper describes it - the Cubs acquire Billy Rogell from the Detroit Tigers for Dick Bartell. Rogell‚ who injured his arm playing handball the previous year‚ will hit just .136 before hanging up his spikes. The Tigers will release "Rowdy Richard" 5 games into the 1941 season.

1951: Brooklyn Dodgers president Walter O'Malley denies that his minor league team system constitutes a monopoly. He cites the Dodgers' deficit in 1950.

1952: The American League approves a 2-league waiver rule curbing inter-league trading after June 15th. At the Winter Meetings a new bonus rule is approved‚ replacing the one that was instituted in 1946 and repealed in 1950. This new rule sets the bonus limit at $4‚000 or the player could be lost though the draft. This second bonus rule lasts until abolished in 1957.

1958: The Senators give walking papers to 3B Eddie Yost‚ sending him to Detroit along with Rocky Bridges and OF Neil Chrisley. The Nats receive infielders Reno Bertoia and Ron Samford and OF Jim Delsing in exchange.

1962: Answering rumors that senior consultant Branch Rickey wants Stan Musial to retire, St. Louis Cardinals owner August Busch says Musial will play until it is time to become a club vice president. Further, Bing Devine is still running the club.

1962: Tigers collect 14 hits, including home runs by Norm Cash, Al Kaline, and Dick McAuliffe, in an 11-4 win over the Hanshin Tigers in Japan.
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1969: Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers and Mike Cuellar of the Baltimore Orioles finish dead even in American League Cy Young Award voting. McLain posted a record 24-9 record with 181 strikeouts and a 2.80 ERA. McLain led the AL in Wins, IP, and Shutouts.
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1970: Minnesota Twins pitcher Jim Perry wins the American League Cy Young Award in a close race. Perry receives 55 points to edge out Dave McNally (47), Sam McDowell (45) and Mike Cuellar (44).

1974: Mike Marshall of the Los Angeles Dodgers becomes the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award. Ironman Marshall set major league records with 106 appearances and 208 innings pitched in relief.

1976: The Detroit Tigers purchased Luis Alvarado from the St. Louis Cardinals.

1984: Willie Hernandez wins the American League Most Valuable Player Award, joining Rollie Fingers as the only relief pitchers to be named MVP and Cy Young Award winners in the same season. Willie was the third Tiger pitcher to win the honor, after Hal Newhouser and Denny McLain. Since, Justin Verlander has joined the group as the fourth Tigers Pitcher to win the award.
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1992: Bill Gullickson of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1992: Alan Trammell of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1996: In Chicago, the MLB owners decisively reject a proposed labor agreement that would have ended a three-year stalemate. The 18-12 vote threatens to plunge baseball back into full-fledged hostilities between the owners and players' union.

2001: Denying it is a negotiating ploy, Commissioner Bud Selig is given the authority to "begin the process" of eliminating two "to be announced" teams by the MLB owners by a 28-2 vote. Donald Fehr, the Players Association executive director, calls the action of possibly eliminating the Twins, Expos, Marlins or Devil Rays most imprudent and unfortunate and the worst manner in which to begin the process of negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement.

2001: Gold Glove Award winners are announced. Ivan Rodriguez wins his 10th straight to tie Johnny Bench for the most by a catcher, Greg Maddux wins his 12th straight to extend his National League record for pitchers, and Roberto Alomar wins for the 10th time, the most ever for a second baseman.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Jamie Walker as a free agent.

2007: The 2007 Gold Glove Awards are announced. Greg Maddux is honored for the 17th time, setting a new record for most Gold Gloves.

2009: Marcus Thames of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2009: Matt Treanor of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2010: Robinzon Diaz of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Jeff Frazier of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Brandon Jones of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Jay Sborz of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Max St. Pierre of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2015: Alberto Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Alexi Casilla of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Rafael Dolis of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Alberto Gonzalez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Mike Hessman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Tim Melville of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Melvin Mercedes of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Trayvon Robinson of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Thad Weber of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Josh Zeid of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2017: Jim Adduci of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: R.J. Alaniz of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Tyler Collins of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Jeff Ferrell of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Miguel Gonzalez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Anthony Gose of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Bryan Holaday of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Omar Infante of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Myles Jaye of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Logan Kensing of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Steven Moya of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Efren Navarro of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Angel Nesbitt of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Brendan Ryan of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Kyle Ryan of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Anthony Vasquez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Logan Watkins of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/carswfr01.shtml
Frank Carswell 1953.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/curtich01.shtml
Chad Curtis 1995-1996.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/trammbu01.shtml
Bubba Trammell 1997.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cruzde01.shtml
Deivi Cruz 1997-2001.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mitchcl01.shtml
Clarence Mitchell 1911.

Baseball Reference
 
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First Dave Littlefield interviewed for the Mets GM job. Now, David Chadd is a candidate for the Orioles' GM. Do they see opportunities or do they see the end of the road in Detroit?
 
November 7 in Tigers and mlb history:

1889: The Brotherhood and its backers meet to begin preliminary work on the organization of a Players League. The players believe "that the game can be played more fairly and its business conducted more intelligently under a plan which excludes everything arbitrary and un-American."

1928: The Boston Braves trade National League batting champion Rogers Hornsby to the Chicago Cubs for $200,000 and players Freddie Maguire (IF), Percy Jones (P), Lou Legett (C), Socks Seibold and P Bruce Cunningham. The hard-hitting Hornsby, who posted a .387 batting average with 21 home runs for the Braves, will enjoy another spectacular season in 1929 for his new club. He will compile a .380 average with 39 home runs and 149 RBI. Braves owner-president Emil Fuchs also decides to be his own manager.

1951: Representative Emanuel Celler's committee issues financial data from 1945-1949 that differs with Walter O'Malley's numbers. According to Celler, the Brooklyn Dodgers made a profit of 2.364 million dollars in the five-year period. The Dodgers' "loss" of $129,318 in 1950 included a $167,000 loss due to the promotion of the Brooklyn Dodgers professional football team. In his continuing investigation into antitrust violations, Celler says that evidence in his committee suggests altering the reserve clause in that it does limit players.

1963: New York Yankees catcher Elston Howard becomes the first black player to win the American League MVP Award. Howard beats out Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers by 248 votes to 148 in the balloting.

1964: The National League approves the move of the Milwaukee Braves to Atlanta but orders them to stay in Milwaukee for the 1965 season, in spite of poor attendance over the last two years. The Braves will eventually move to Atlanta in 1966.

1967: St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Orlando Cepeda becomes only the second National League player to unanimously win the MVP Award. Cepeda batted .325 with 25 home runs and 111 RBI in leading the Cardinals to the pennant. New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell swept the National League MVP voting in 1936.

1972: Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench, who posted a .270 average with 40 home runs and 125 RBI, wins the National League MVP Award for the second time in three years.

1973: New Jersey becomes the first state which allows girls to play on Little League baseball teams.

1978: In a controversial selection, Boston Red Sox outfielder Jim Rice is named American League Most Valuable Player over New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry. Rice led the AL in home runs (46), RBI (139), hits (213), triples and slugging percentage (.600), and became the first AL player to accumulate 400 total bases in a season since Joe DiMaggio in 1937, while Guidry posted a 25-3 record with 248 strikeouts and a 1.74 ERA for the pennant-winning Yankees.

1983: Doug Bair of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1983: Enos Cabell of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1983: Milt Wilcox of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1993: Joe Boever of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1993: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Boever as a free agent.

1995: MLB signs a $1.7 billion, five-year deal with FOX, NBC, ESPN and Liberty Media.

1995: Lou Whitaker of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2001: Commissioner Bud Selig announces that Major League Baseball will undergo a contraction of two teams, after a 28-2 vote by the owners. Montreal is one of the dissenting franchises.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Dave Borkowski as a free agent.
2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Craig Wilson as a free agent.

2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Danny Klassen as a free agent.

2005: The Detroit Tigers signed Kevin Hooper as a free agent.

2016: Drake Britton of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: Pedro Ciriaco of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: Preston Guilmet of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: Chad Huffman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: David Martinez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: Dustin Molleken of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: Cesar Ramos of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: Jordany Valdespin of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: Thad Weber of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Joe_Niekro
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/niekrjo01.shtml
Joe Niekro 1970-1972.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/walketo02.shtml?redir
Tom Walker 1975.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mercaor01.shtml?redir
Orlando Mercado 1987.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tombean01.shtml?redir
Andy Tomberlin 1998.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Sam_Thompson
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thompsa01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/b3e0fab8
Sam Thompson Detroit Wolverines NL 1885-1888, Tigers 1906.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/galloch01.shtml
Chick Galloway 1928.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Johnny_Sain
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/d83d0584
Johnny Sain Pitching Coach 1967-1969.

Baseball Reference
 
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November 8 in Tigers and mlb history:

1920: At a meeting to depose Ban Johnson as the American League president, a new 12-team National League, made up of the dissenting 11 teams plus one of the five teams loyal to Johnson, is agreed to. John Heydler will be its president and federal judge Kenesaw Landis the proposed chairman of the new commission. This revolutionary plan for a new senior circuit will be discarded a few days later, after four of the five American League clubs still backing Johnson agree to a joint meeting November 12th in Chicago, IL.

1928: Rick Ferrell of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1934: Ford Frick, National League publicity director, is named league president. He will eventually become Commissioner.

1945: For the second consecutive season, Detroit?s Hal Newhouser is named American League Most Valuable Player.
"Prince" Hal leads the league in Wins 25, ERA 1.81 CG 29, Shutouts 8, IP 313.1 Strikeouts 212, ERA+ 195, and FIP 2.45

1950: Commissioner Happy Chandler and players' representatives agree on the split of the TV and radio rights from the World Series.

1950: The Baseball Writers Association of America announces that slugging first baseman Walt Dropo of the Boston Red Sox is the Rookie of the Year in the American League. Dropo led the league with 144 RBI.
In June of 1952 Dropo is part of a 9 player trade and goes to the Tigers and a month later on July 14 and 15 puts himself in the record books with 12 consecutive hits over 3 games.

1951: New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra wins the first of his three Most Valuable Player awards.

1954: American League owners approve the move of the Philadelphia Athletics to Kansas City. The vote is 6-2 in favor. The transplanted Athletics will play home games at Municipal Stadium, which will be expanded from 17,000 to 36,000 seats.

1961: With only one Cy Young Award given for the two leagues, Whitey Ford, the American League leader in wins (25) and innings pitched (283), wins the honor ahead of Warren Spahn, who led the National League in wins (21) and ERA (3.02). In one of the closest votes in Award history, future Hall of Famers Ford and Spahn total nine and six points respectively.

1966: Triple Crown winner Frank Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles is the unanimous choice as American League MVP. He becomes the first major league player to win the award in both leagues.

1977: Hall of Fame manager Bucky Harris dies on his 81st birthday. Harris won two World Championships and three American League pennants over a 29-year career with the Washington Senators, New York Yankees, and Detroit Tigers among other teams.

1983: Atlanta Braves outfielder Dale Murphy, who hit .302 with 36 home runs, 121 RBI and 30 stolen bases in the National League, joins Ernie Banks, Joe Morgan and Mike Schmidt as one of the players who has won the MVP Award in consecutive years. Murphy receives 21 of the 24 first-place votes cast.

1984: Johnny Grubb of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1984: Ruppert Jones of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1984: Dave Rozema of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1988: Geography professor Dan Dillman (left) featured for organizing Geography Awareness Week at Northern Illinois University. Dillman was a Tigers batboy in 1940s and wrote a memoir about his experiences.
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1991: Dave Bergman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1991: Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles is named the American League MVP, beating out Cecil Fielder of Detroit. Second straight season that Fielder finished second in MVP vote.

1996: The Detroit Tigers released Phil Hiatt.

1999: The U.S. House of Representatives passes a resolution calling for Shoeless Joe Jackson to be honored. The resolution stops short of calling for his induction into the Hall of Fame. "It is worthy for this body to take a few minutes to stand up for fairness and right an old wrong," said Rep. Jim DeMint, the author of the resolution who represents Jackson's hometown of Greenville, SC Jackson was eligible for the Hall of Fame until 1991 but was never voted in either by the Baseball Writers Association of America or the Veterans Committee. In 1991, the Hall's board adopted a resolution prohibiting players on the permanently banned list. The resolution will now go to the US Senate.

2005: Commissioner Bud Selig has made it clear he doesn't want instant replay. Even Angels manager Mike Scioscia, who had a dreadful call go against his team in the American League Championship Series, says to leave calls to the human element of umpiring. That, however, won't stop general managers from debating the issue this week.

2010: The Detroit Tigers signed Jhonny Peralta as a free agent.
2010: The Detroit Tigers signed Max St. Pierre as a free agent.

2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Jose Alvarez as a free agent.

2012: The 2012 Silver Slugger Awards are announced. Leading the field in the American League is 3B Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers, winner of the Triple Crown, alongside veteran SS Derek Jeter and Cabrera's main rival for the MVP Award, Angels rookie OF Mike Trout.

2016: The New York Yankees selected Joe Mantiply off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2016: Winners of the Gold Glove are announced in both leagues. First-time winners include SS Francisco Lindor and 2B Ian Kinsler in the AL, and 1B Anthony Rizzo and C Buster Posey in the NL.

Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bucky_Harris
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harribu01.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/harribu01.shtml
Bucky Harris 1929, 1931, manager 1929-1933, 1955-1956.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tony_Cuccinello
Tony Cuccinello coach 1967-1968.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mike_Roarke
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roarkmi01.shtml
Mike Roarke 1961-1964, coach 1965-1966, 1970.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Shane_Halter
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/haltesh01.shtml
Shane Halter 2000-2003.

Tigers players and managers who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bucky_Harris
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harribu01.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/harribu01.shtml
Bucky Harris 1929, 1931, manager 1929-1933, 1955-1956.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Earl_Torgeson
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/torgeea01.shtml
Earl Torgeson 1955-1957.

from Baseball Reference
 
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