December 13 in Tigers and mlb history:
1906: The Detroit Tigers purchased Claude Rossman from the Cleveland Naps.
1922: Alarmed at the increase in home run hitting (1,054 in the major leagues, up from 936), some American League owners back a zoning system setting a minimum of 300 feet for a ball to be called a home run. The motion dies.
1922: The league requires each club to furnish two home uniforms per player, plus extra caps and stockings on the road, to improve the players' appearance. In National League meetings, Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps. It's left to each club to do as it wishes.
1927: Senators president Clark Griffith gains approval to have Washington open the American League season one day before the rest of the league, to celebrate a "National Day" with the U.S. president throwing out the first ball. The AL also installs Ernest S. Barnard as its president.
1927: The St. Louis Browns traded Harry Rice, Elam Vangilder and a player to be named to the Detroit Tigers for
Lu Blue and Heinie Manush. The St. Louis Browns sent Chick Galloway (December 24, 1927) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
1930: The 15-year career of George Sisler ends as the Boston Braves release him. A lifetime .340 hitter who twice led the American League with averages above .400, Sisler will be among the first to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, enshrined in 1939.
1940: Veteran umpire and ex-Tiger George Moriarty is removed from the active staff and transferred to the American League promotional department.
1956: The Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to the cross-town rivals, the Giants, for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000. Jackie, according to some accounts had already decided privately to leave the game to work for Chock Full of Nuts, publicly retires from baseball rather than accept the trade.
1961: Mickey Mantle signs a 1962 contract for $82,000. Only Joe DiMaggio has been paid more by the Yankees.
1969: The Tigers trade Tom Matchick to the Red Sox for Dalton Jones.
1978: The Detroit Tigers released Mickey Stanley.
1993: The Detroit Tigers signed David Wells as a free agent.
1995: The Detroit Tigers signed Mark Parent as a free agent.
1999: The Detroit Tigers drafted Mark Johnson from the New York Yankees in the 1999 rule 5 draft.
1999: The Tampa Bay Devil Rays drafted Chad Ogea from the Detroit Tigers in the 1999 rule 5 draft.
2001: The Tigers sign IF-OF Craig Paquette to a 2-year contract.
2001: The Detroit Tigers purchased Joe Valentine from the Montreal Expos.
2001: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jeff Farnsworth from the Seattle Mariners in the 2001 rule 5 draft.
2001: The New York Mets traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for C.J. Nitkowski and cash. The New York Mets sent Kyle Kessel (minors) (December 13, 2001) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2001: Writing a 24-page pun-filled opinion, U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III upholds most of an arbitrator's decision declaring nine of 22 umpires who lost their jobs following a 1999 mass resignation must be reinstated. To make his point, the judge said it was his job to make sure the arbitrator hadn't "missed the ball" and both parties "make(s) a pitch that all or part of the arbitrator's ruling should be scored as an error and set aside".
2007: The Mitchell Report is released, naming 89 players as having used or been in possession of steroids. Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Miguel Tejada and Jason Giambi are among those named. The report calls for tighter regulation of performance-enhancing drugs.
2010: Canada Post announces that it will feature Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins on a postage stamp that commemorates black history month next February.
2011: The Associated Press reports a few more features of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement signed earlier this month. The All-Star break will go from three days to four beginning in 2013*, with the Mid-Summer Classic being played on a Wednesday; teams will no longer be allowed to have players on the 40-man roster share a room during spring training; and players are forbidden from displaying tattoos with corporate logos.
2013: Reds 1B Joey Votto is named recipient of the Tip O'Neill Award, given to the best player in Canada, for a record fourth straight year.
2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Joba Chamberlain as a free agent.
2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Waldis Joaquin as a free agent.
2017: The Tigers trade All-Star 2B Ian Kinsler to the Angels for two prospects, P Wilkel Hernandez and OF Troy Montgomery, as they continue a rebuilding trend begun late last season when they traded J.D. Martinez, Justin Upton and Justin Verlander.
2018: The Detroit Tigers drafted Reed Garrett from the Texas Rangers in the 2018 rule 5 draft.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kisinru01.shtml
Rube Kisinger 1902-1903.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Scat_Metha
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/methasc01.shtml
Frank 'Scat' Metha 1940.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Larry_Doby
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dobyla01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/4e985e86
Larry Doby 1959.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bubba_Morton
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mortobu01.shtml
Bubba Morton 1961-1963.
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