February 15 in Tigers and mlb history:
1910: Both major leagues adopt resolutions banning syndicate baseball, which allowed owners to have financial interests in more than one team. The National League votes for a 154-game schedule to open on April 12th, which the American League has already adopted. Other rules: umpires must announce all team changes to spectators; batting orders must be delivered to the umpire at home plate before the game; a batter is out if he crosses the plate from one batter's box to the other while the pitcher is in position to pitch; a baserunner is out if he passes another runner before the latter has been put out.
1940: The Detroit Tigers' roster lists Hank Greenberg as an OF. The willingness of the team's leading power hitter to switch, at a contract boost, from 1B allows manager Del Baker to find a position for Rudy York.
Also on the list are Dick Bartell, picked up from the Chicago Cubs for Billy Rogell and Pinky Higgins, who had been shopped around. The four, along with Barney McCosky and Charlie Gehringer, produce the stuff that will move the Tigers from fifth to first, although its .588 mark will be as low as that of any pennant-winner yet.
1946: Detroit's Hank Greenberg signs for $60,000 and then marries New York department store heiress Carol Gimbel three days later.
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1950: The Detroit Tigers selected Paul Calvert off waivers from the Washington Senators.
1957: A Boston newspaper claims that Ted Williams never paid his $5,000 fine for spitting at the crowd. It refers to him mockingly as the "Splendid Spitter."
1990: Major League owners refuse to open spring training camps without a new Basic Agreement with the Players' Association, beginning a lockout that will last 32 days and postpone the start of the regular season by one week.
2005: The Detroit Tigers signed Vic Darensbourg as a free agent.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Buddy Hicks 1956.
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Brian Williams 1996.
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Ugueth Urbina 2004-2005.
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Don Kelly 2009-2014.
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Alex Gonzalez 2014.
Tigers players who passed away:
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John Deering 1903.
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Cotton Pippen 1939-1940.
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Lynn Nelson 1940.
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