January 29 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: After rejecting a proposal to ban the bunt, the newly-named Rules Committee composed of Connie Mack, John McGraw and Charles Comiskey recommends no changes at this time.
1936: Baseball?s first Hall of Fame class elected, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, and Babe Ruth as five of the finest players of the era.
Ty Cobb is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in their inaugural election. He receives 222 out of 226 votes, the most of any player (98.2%).
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1948: Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players.
1951: Major League Baseball signs a six-year All-Star Game pact for TV and Radio rights calling for $6 million.
A number of owners criticize Commissioner Happy Chandler, believing that in a couple of years, the broadcast rights will be worth much more than a million per annum.
1953: The Philadelphia Athletics traded Billy Hitchcock to the Detroit Tigers for Don Kolloway.
1957: With the advent of coast-to-coast air travel, Major League Baseball considers a plan creating a player pool to be used in the event of an air disaster.
1958: Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals signs a one-year contract worth $100,000. The deal makes Musial the highest-paid player in the National League. In 1957, Musial paced the NL with a .351 batting mark, while also hitting 29 home runs and driving in 102 runs.
1958: Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella suffers a broken neck in an early morning auto accident on Long Island. Campanella, who has won three National League MVP Awards, will be paralyzed for the remainder of his life.
1961: Billy Hamilton and Max Carey are selected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
1966: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jon Warden in the 4th round of the 1966 amateur draft (January).
1966: The Detroit Tigers drafted Ken Tatum in the 6th round of the 1966 amateur draft (January Secondary), but was not signed.
1967: Former Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey and Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Lloyd Waner are elected to the Hall of Fame by a unanimous vote of the Special Veterans Committee. In 1947, Rickey promoted Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers, effectively breaking the baseball color line in the major leagues.
1971: In accepting the Tris Speaker Award from Houston sportswriters, Roberto Clemente gives a speech which, apart from being called by many of those in attendance "the best talk any baseball player ever made," is the source of Clemente's most famous ? if oft misquoted ? assertion: "If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth."
1981: American League owners approve the sales of two franchises, the Chicago White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, and 80 percent of the Seattle Mariners to George Argyros for $10.4 million.
1987: Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs avoids going to salary arbitration for the third consecutive year by signing a three-year contract worth over $5 million.
1988: After being granted free agency as a result of owner collusion, the Los Angeles Dodgers sign free agent outfielder Kirk Gibson to a three-year contract worth $4.5 million. Thanks in large part to Gibson's fiery leadership, the Dodgers will win the National League pennant this season.
In Game 1 of the World Series against the Oakland Athletics, Gibson, too hobbled to play the field, will hit a dramatic, game-winning pinch-hit home run off Dennis Eckersley.
1992: The Detroit Tigers signed Eric King as a free agent.
1998: The Detroit Tigers signed Pete Incaviglia as a free agent.
2006: Sparky Anderson attends the dedication of Sparky Anderson Field at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.
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2018: The Cleveland Indians announce that they will stop using the image of "Chief Wahoo" on their uniforms starting in 2019. The caricatural Indian mascot, deemed offensive by most Native Americans and by many others, has been used by the team since 1947, but has drawn increasing criticism in the last two decades, prompting Commissioner Rob Manfred to formally ask the team to phase it out.
2018: Anger over the slow pace of free agent signings is boiling over. Today, Agent Scott Boras accuses the current system of threatening the sport's integrity, as many teams have seemingly decided not to attempt being competitive. Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto adds that certain team would rather "win the top draft pick [in the amateur draft] than the World Series". A day earlier, Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen vented that players should consider going on strike even though a new collective bargaining agreement was just signed. The reason for this frustration is that a month before the opening of spring training, 130 free agents remain unsigned, including some of the highest-profile players on the market.
2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Travis Wood as a free agent.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Hack Simmons 1910.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ray_Hayworth
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Ray Hayworth 1926, 1929-1938.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jair_Jurrjens
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Jair Jurrjens 2007.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Alex_Avila
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Alex Avila 2009-2015, 2017.
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Brandon Dixon 2019.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Del Gainer 1909, 1911-1914.
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Andy Harrington 1925.
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