July 11 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: The Detroit Tigers signed Davey Crockett as a free agent.
1914: Babe Ruth breaks in with Boston, striking out in his first at bat, but pitching a 4 - 3 win over Cleveland. With the score 3 - 3 in the 7th, Duffy Lewis pinch hits for Ruth, singles, and later scores the winning run.
1916: The Red Sox sweep the White Sox, winning 5 - 3 and 3 - 1. Babe Ruth starts both games, lasting a third of an inning in the opener, but pitching a 3 - 1 complete game win in the nitecap. Ruth starts the opener to give Rube Foster more time to warm up, and leaves after retiring the first batter.
1917: In Detroit, Boston's Babe Ruth tops the Tigers 1 - 0, allowing just Donie Bush's scratch single in the 8th. Ruth deflects the ball but the throw by the shortstop is too late. A pinch triple by Chick Shorten in the 9th drives home the only run. Ruth strikes out Bobby Veach, Sam Crawford and Ty Cobb in the 9th, for the last. In early 1942, in a speech in Los Angeles, Ruth will call this game his greatest thrill. (The Babe also relates to writer John Carmichael that his greatest game was the "called shot" in the 1932 World Series.)
1923: Harry Frazee, owner of the Boston Red Sox since 1916, sells out for over $1 million to a group of Ohio businessmen, who bring in veteran front office man Bob Quinn from St. Louis to run the club. Frazee's departure is welcomed by Boston fans who are fed up with the sale of Frazee's best players over the years, many of them to the rival New York Yankees.
1925: George Sisler drives in seven runs in two innings, tripling with the bases full in the 3rd and hitting a grand slam in the 4th, in a Browns 10 - 5 win over Washington.
1935: Charlie Gehringer hits his 100th career home run in the Tigers 7 - 6 win over the senators.
Pete Fox's hitting streak that started on June 13 is stopped after 29 games. The Tigers outfielder bats .397 during his streak 54 for 136.
1937: The Detroit Tigers traded Lindsay Brown and cash to the Brooklyn Dodgers for Ralph Birkofer.
1939: With another Yankee-dominated lineup, the American League defeats the National League, 3 - 1, in the seventh All-Star Game, at Yankee Stadium.
1945: Aaron Robinson, Yankees C, returns from the military. Red Ruffing is back too, and so are Hugh Mulcahy and Buddy Lewis. Charlie Keller will follow, and a couple of dozen former major-league players will be in uniform before the season is over.
1950: Making a leaping, off-the-wall catch of a Ralph Kiner drive in the 1st inning, Ted Williams fractures his left elbow in the All-Star Game at Chicago. Remaining in the game, he puts the American League ahead, 3 - 2, with an RBI single.
Kiner's 9th-inning home run ties the game, and Red Schoendienst's blast in the 14th wins it.
Williams later states he was never the same after this injury.
It's a game of firsts - the first extra-inning All-Star Game, the first time the NL wins at an AL park, and the first All-Star Game ever shown on national television.
1954: The Detroit Tigers released Ralph Branca.
1960: In the first of this year's two All-Star Games, Pittsburgh's Bob Friend notches his second win in the National League's last three with 3 innings of one-hit, shutout ball. Friend's performance plus home runs by Ernie Banks and Del Crandall – not to mention perennial All-Star luminary, Willie Mays, falling just a few feet shy of the cycle – pace the Senior Circuit to a 5 - 3 decision over its junior counterpart at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium. Albeit not affecting the game's outcome, a somewhat splashy All-Star debut is made by Friend's teammate, Roberto Clemente.
1961: Candlestick Park's notoriously vicious winds dominate the first of 1961's two All-Star Games. A capacity crowd witnesses a record seven errors, not to mention hometown hero Stu Miller's wind-induced balk, enabling the American League to forge a 3 - 3 tie before losing, 5 - 4, in 10 innings. The game-winning rally is comprised solely of contributions by the National League's four premier outfielders, in order of appearance: Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson and Clemente.
1962: For the first time since 1938, when the Waner brothers pulled the trick, brothers Hank Aaron and Tommie Aaron homer in the same inning. Both homers are hit in the last of the 9th, and Hank's grand slam provides the winning margin in an 8 - 6 Braves win over the Cards.
1973: Jim Northrup knocks in eight runs and scores three times as the Tigers rout the Rangers, 14 - 2. The 3 for 4 performance by the Tiger's leadoff hitter helps him record the 500th Run and 500th RBI of his career.
1973: The Detroit Tigers signed Mark Lemongello as an amateur free agent.
1985: Nolan Ryan becomes the first pitcher to record 4,000 strikeouts, fanning Danny Heep in the 6th inning of Houston's 4 - 3 win over the Mets. Ryan finishes with 11 strikeouts in seven innings but gets no decision.
1989: Bo Jackson and Wade Boggs lead off the bottom of the 1st inning with back-to-back home runs off Rick Reuschel to spark the American League to a 5 - 3 win in the All-Star Game at Anaheim Stadium. Jackson earns MVP honors.
1995: Mickey Mantle's final public appearance increases awareness of organ donation programs.
1995: The National League defeats the American League in the All-Star Game, 3 - 2, on an 8th inning pinch-hit home run by Jeff Conine. Conine becomes the 10th player to homer in his first All-Star at bat, and is named the game's MVP. Frank Thomas, Craig Biggio and Mike Piazza also connect for home runs. Thomas becomes the first White Sox player ever to homer in the Mid-summer Classic as the NL out-homers the American League, 3 to 2.
2000: The American League wins its 4th consecutive All-Star Game, beating the National League, 6 - 3. Derek Jeter of the Yankees and Chipper Jones of the Braves each go 3 for 3 in the contest. Jeter takes MVP honors.
2003: The Detroit Tigers released Wendell Magee.
2005: Bobby Abreu beats Ivan Rodriguez in the final round to win the Home Run Derby at Comerica Park. His grand total of 41 home runs is a new Derby record.
2006: Kenny Rogers and Pudge Rodriguez become Tigers' 1st All-Star Game starting battery since 1966 (McLain and Freehan).
2013: Derek Jeter plays for the Yankees for the first time since breaking his ankle in Game 1 of the 2012 ALCS. Inserted as the DH, he singles on the first pitch he sees and comes in to score as the Yanks beat the Royals, 8 - 4.
Jeter comes back after only four rehabilitation outings in the minors, however, Jeter leaves the game after the 5th inning with a tight quad muscle and will undergo an MRI.
2013: Miguel Cabrera homers to right field off Chris Sale making him the first player with at least 30 home runs and 90 RBIs before the All-Star break.
2014: Aroldis Chapman of the Reds sets a new record by notching a strikeout in his 40th straight relief appearance, dating back to August 21, 2013. The previous record had been held by Bruce Sutter since 1977. Chapman strikes out the side against the Pirates on the way to his 20th save of the year.
2015: The Detroit Tigers signed Neftali Feliz as a free agent.
2017: The American League wins the 2017 All-Star Game, played at Marlins Park in Miami, FL, 2 - 1, in 10 innings over the National League. Miguel Sano gives the AL the lead with a bloop single to right scoring Jonathan Schoop with two outs in the 5th, but Yadier Molina ties it with a solo homer to the opposite field off Ervin Santana in the 6th.
Robinson Cano leads off the 10th by parking Wade Davis' first pitch beyond the right-field fence, then Andrew Miller records the last three outs for the save. Cano is named winner of the Ted Williams Award as the game's MVP.
The two leagues are now tied with 43 wins apiece since the first mid-summer classic was played in 1933, with two ties.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/federal01.shtml
Al Federoff 1951-1952.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bazaryo01.shtml?redir
Yorman Bazardo 2007-2008.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/barbajo01.shtml
Johnny Barbato 2018.
Tigers players and sportswriters who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dutch_Leonard_(leonadu01)
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leonadu01.shtml
Dutch Leonard 1919-1921, 1924-1925.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dan_Ewald
Dan Ewald Detroit sportswriter and Tigers players/managers/teams author 1970's/2000's.
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