May 20 in Tigers and mlb history:
1912: The Detroit Tigers currently are on strike to protest the suspension of Ty Cobb for attacking a fan.
Today, American League President Ban Johnson threatens all the Tiger players with lifetime suspensions if they don’t return to play. In reply, Cobb asks his teammates to end their strike.
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1919: Babe Ruth wins a game pitching and batting as he hits his first career grand slam in the Boston Red Sox's 6 - 4 victory over the St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park.
1921: Hal Newhouser is born in Detroit, Michigan. In 1939, Newhouser will make his major league debut for his hometown team, the Detroit Tigers.
A left-handed pitcher, 'Prince Hal' will win the MVP in 1944-1945 and set records for wins over a three year span (80, and most wins before age 30 season (185). Newhouser will win 207 games over a 17-year career and will gain Hall of Fame honors in 1992. His uniform number 16 was retired by the Tigers.
1932: Paul Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits four doubles in one game to tie a major league record.
1940: Pinky Higgins homers in 3 straight at bats against Lefty Grove in the Tigers' 10-7 win over the Red Sox.
1941: Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox wins his 20th consecutive game at Fenway Park, the longest home park streak in the major leagues, in a 4 - 2 victory over the Detroit Tigers.
1947: Tigers trade Birdie Tebbetts to Boston after nine seasons in Detroit to the Boston Red Sox for Hal Wagner.
Tebbetts will go on to play in two more All-Star Games.
1947: The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Braves, 4 - 3, in a game that features 22 hits - all singles. The Pirates hit 12 singles, the Braves 10.
1948: Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hits for the cycle and collects six RBI in a 13 - 2 victory over the Chicago White Sox. DiMaggio hits two home runs, a triple, a double and a single, and narrowly misses another extra-base hit when Chicago left fielder Ralph Hodgin makes a spectacular catch at the wall.
1951: Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phillies collects four hits in each game of a doubleheader as the Phillies sweep the rival Pittsburgh Pirates, 17 - 0 and 12 - 4, at Forbes Field.
1959: The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees, 13 - 6. Eddie Yost hits two home runs and Frank Lary goes the distance. The loss puts New York in last place for the first time in 19 years.
1965: With the Tigers trailing Washington in the bottom of the 10th, Dick McAuliffe hits a walk-off 2-run home run and Tigers win 9 - 8.
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1968: Willie Horton ties the game in the 9th inning with a solo home run, and the Tigers win 4-3 in 10 innings in Minnesota.
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1971: Martin Dihigo dies in Cienfuegos, Cuba, at the age of 65. Over the course of his career, Dihigo made seamless transitions between all nine positions and played in several countries. As a hitter, he won both batting average and home run titles; as a pitcher, he won more than 250 games and once defeated Satchel Paige while touring Cuba. He will be elected to the American Hall of Fame in 1977 and also was or will be voted into the Cuban, Mexican and Latin American Baseball Hall of Fame.
1978: Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits a 535-foot home run off Montreal Expos pitcher Wayne Twitchell to highlight a 6 - 0 victory at Stade Olympique. It is the longest home run in the ballpark's history and is also Stargell's 407th career home run, tying him with Duke Snider on the career all-time list.
1982: Larry Herndon goes 5-for-5 with 3 triples in an 11-3 win over the A's at #Tiger Stadium.
1983: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton passes Walter Johnson to move into second place on the all-time strikeout list. Carlton's four strikeouts put him at 3,511, just 10 behind Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros. Ryan had bettered Johnson's record earlier in the month.
1984: Pitching coach Roger Craig will miss tonight's game to attend a reunion of the 1964 world champion Cardinals in St. Louis.
Craig won championships with the '55 Brooklyn Dodgers, '59 LA Dodgers, '64 Cardinals, and is chasing his first as a coach.
1984: Tigers beat the A's 4 - 3. Tigers sweep A's, and improve to 32-5.
1988: Alan Trammell goes 4-for-5 with a home run and a double in the Tigers' 14-6 win over the White Sox in Chicago.
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1988: Mike Schmidt belts the 535th homerun of his career during 1st inning at San Diego, CA off San Diego Padres starting pitcher Andy Hawkins, moving Schmidt past Jimmy Foxx into sole possession of 8th place on the all-time homerun list.
2006: With two outs and no one on in the bottom of the 9th, Curtis Granderson ties the game with a home run, and the Tigers beat the Reds in the 10th on a walk-off error.
2008: Mike Piazza announces his retirement. A 12-time All-Star, Piazza hit .308/.377/.545 in 16 seasons after having been picked in the 62nd round of the amateur draft. He socked 427 home runs, scored 1,048 runs and drove in 1,335 and set the all-time major league record for homers by a catcher.
2012: Max Scherzer strikes out 15 batters in 7 innings to lead the Tigers to a 4 - 3 win over the Pirates. The strikeouts are one shy of the club record of 16, held by Mickey Lolich, and are the highest total in the major leagues so far this season.
2012: Mike Hessman of the Toledo Mud Hens connects for his 400th minor league homer, against Scott Diamond of the Rochester Red Wings in an International League contest.
Hessman is only the 8th player to reach the mark, and the 4th to do it entirely in U.S.-based leagues, as the top four minor league home run hitters of all time all spent the bulk of their career in Mexico.
2015: Willie Horton returns to site of Tiger Stadium for the first time since 1999.
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2016: Miguel Cabrera goes 3-for-5 with 2 home runs in a loss to the rays.
2017: The Detroit Tigers signed Matt den Dekker as a free agent.
2017: Alex Avila, Miguel Cabrera, and J.D. Martinez hit back-to-back-to-back home runs. First time in team history the Tigers hit 3 straight home runs in the 1st inning and the Tigers beat the rangers 9 - 3. Justin Verlander with the win.
2018: The Detroit Tigers released Jairo Labourt.
2019: The Detroit Tigers returned Reed Garrett (earlier draft pick) to the Texas Rangers.
Tigers players birthdays:
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John Murphy 1903.
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Hal Newhouser 1939-1953.
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Earl Rapp 1949.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Morgan
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Tom Morgan 1958-1960.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/David_Wells
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David Wells 1993-1995.
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Luis Garcia 1999.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Bob Logan 1937.
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Bud Thomas 1939-1941.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Aber
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Al Aber 1953-1957.
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