July 15 in Tigers and mlb history:
1900: Detroit Tigers manager George Stallings, afraid that his home crowd would injure umpire Joe Cantillon after the previous day's hostilities, refuses to let him work, and is ready to forfeit today's game to the Cleveland Lake Shores.
But Lake Shores manager Jimmy McAleer agrees to play using reserve player Sport McAllister as the ump, and Detroit wins 6 - 1.
1901: Christy Mathewson, 22 years old, of the New York Giants pitches a no-hitter, blanking the St. Louis Cardinals, 5 - 0, at League Park.
1903: With ground rules limiting hits into the crowds to three bases, Cy Young drives home Lou Criger in the 10th inning for a 4 - 3 win over the visiting Cleveland Naps. Addie Joss takes the loss.
1909: Ty Cobb has two inside-the-park homers to lead the Detroit Tigers to a sweep of the Washington Nationals. Detroit wins 9 - 5 and 7 - 0.
1920: Babe Ruth ties his 1919 record of 29 home runs with a game-winner in the 13th to beat the St. Louis Browns 13 - 10. Two days later, he will break it by hitting two off Chicago White Sox P Dickie Kerr.
1924: Ty Cobb bangs out his 600th career double. By the time Cobb retires in 1928, he will have 724 doubles good for second all time.
1926: Hall of Fame second baseman Charlie Gehringer blasts his first home run. It comes off star pitcher Urban Shocker of the Yankees.
1932: In the second game of a doubleheader, Satchel Paige pitches the first no-hitter in Greenlee Field as the Pittsburgh Crawfords defeat the New York Black Yankees, 6 - 0. Three Hall of Famers support Paige: Oscar Charleston at first base, Judy Johnson at third, and Josh Gibson in left field. Ted Radcliffe, who pitched in the first game, is behind the plate for Paige's gem.
1934: Lou Gehrig returns to 1B and goes 4 for 4, including 3 doubles, off Schoolboy Rowe, but the New York Yankees lose to the Detroit Tigers 8 - 3.
1936: After an absence of several weeks, manager Mickey Cochrane rejoins the Detroit Tigers in New York, as they split a doubleheader with the Yankees. The Tigers take the opener 5 - 1, then lose 7 - 4, as New York maintains its 9-game lead. Cochrane will suffer a relapse and coach Del Baker will take over on the 21st.
1942: "There is no rule, formal or informal, against the hiring of Negro players," says Judge Landis in response to an editorial in the New York Daily Worker newspaper.
1951: Happy Chandler completes his contract as baseball commissioner, but fails to win the owners' support for a renewal.
1952: The Cleveland Indians' power hitters dazzle the New York Yankees with a triple steal in the 1st inning as Al Rosen scores, Larry Doby goes to third, and Luke Easter, in his only major-league theft, goes to second.
1952: Detroit Tiger Walt Dropo continues his streak in the opening game of a doubleheader, going 4 for 4 against the Washington Senators' Walt Masterson. In the second game, he gets 3 hits in his first 3 at bats to run his streak to 12 straight hits. He goes 4 for 5 with 5 RBI, but Washington wins both games, 8 - 2 and 9 - 8.
1956: Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hits in the second game of a doubleheader sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Braves winning, 3 - 2 and 4 - 1. This is the start of a 25-game hitting streak for Aaron, the longest of the season.
1960: At Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a three-run homer off Don Mossi, but the Detroit Tigers rally with homeruns from 3B Eddie Yost and RF Rocky Colavito to win 8 - 4.
1960: Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5, hitting for the cycle, to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 5 - 2 win over the Chicago White Sox. With three hits yesterday, Robinson has eight straight hits. His 9th-inning triple off reliever Turk Lown seals the win for Milt Pappas over starter Billy Pierce.
1966: Pitcher Earl Wilson pinch hits in the bottom of the 9th and hits a walk-off 3-run home run as the Tigers beat the orioles 8 - 5.
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1969: With President Richard Nixon attending his fifth game of the season, the Washington Senators beat the Detroit Tigers again, 7 - 3. The Tigers pull off the first triple play of the year when Ed Brinkman grounds to 3B Don Wert.
Tim Cullen, hitting .206, drives in four runs with a single, double and home run.
1970: The San Diego Padres purchased Earl Wilson from the Detroit Tigers.
1973: Before 41,411 in Detroit, California Angels ace Nolan Ryan hurls his second no-hitter of the season in taming the Detroit Tigers, 6 - 0. Ryan fans 17 batters, the most ever in a 9-inning no-hitter, including eight straight, but only one over the last two innings. Nolan's arm stiffens while watching his team rally for five runs in the top of the 8th. With two outs in the 9th, Norm Cash, who had struck out his three other times at bat, comes to bat wielding a piano leg. Umpire Ron Luciano points out the illegality and Cash then pops out using a regulation bat. Ryan's eight strikeouts in a row ties the American League record he set last year.
1979: Steve Kemp goes 5-for-6 in the Tigers' 14-5 win over the White Sox.
1982: The Detroit Tigers collect nine hits and drop 11 runs on the Minnesota Twins in the first inning, en route to an 18 - 2 smackdown of the Twins. Dan Petry is the winning pitcher. Tom Brookens and Alan Trammell hit back-to-back home runs off reliever John Pacella.
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1985: During the first day of the All-Star break before the Mid-summer Classic to be played in Minneapolis, the Players' Association sets an August 6 strike date. The union will keep its word, but the season will resume two days later.
1986: Lou Whitaker’s 2-run home run off Dwight Gooden helps lead the American League to a 3-2 win in the All-Star Game at the Astrodome.
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1990: The Detroit Tigers released Ed Romero.
2000: The Detroit Tigers retire Willie Horton’s #23 and also dedicate his statue at Comerica Park. Horton is the only player not in the Baseball Hall of Fame who is so honored by the club.
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2000: The American Tobacco Company's near-mint condition 1909 Honus Wagner card goes for $1.1 million in an eBay online auction. The high bidder will pay $1.265 million including a 15 percent buyer's premium for the 91-year-old card of the Hall of Fame Pirate shortstop.
Other high-priced items in the auction include a baseball autographed by the entire 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" team, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, as well as the umpires who worked the final game of the 1919 World Series, which sells for $93,666, including a 15 percent buyer's premium. The ball's value, believed to be the most for such an item, is unusually high because the autographs include that of Jackson, who was considered illiterate and usually only signed legal documents.
A ball signed by the 1919 Reds goes for $11,208, while a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth sells for $76,020.
A contract from Jackson's sale of his Chicago pool hall to teammate Lefty Williams, sells for $36,098; the contract, dated October 6, 1921, is for just $1.
2001: Umpires file a grievance against Major League Baseball, saying the commissioner's office is pressuring them to call more strikes by keeping track of total pitch counts. As part of these efforts, cameras were installed over the weekend, July 13 and 14, at Shea Stadium to track each pitch. Fenway Park and Shea are the only parks with the tracking system, which is similar to that used on Fox's broadcasts, but major league officials hope to have four more by September.
2008: The American League defeats the National League, 4 - 3, in 15 innings at the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. It is the first extra-inning win ever for the AL after seven losses and one tie. The two teams combine for a record 7 steals, six of them by the American League. The game goes 4 hours and 50 minutes, also a record.
2014: The American League wins the 2014 All-Star Game, 5 - 3, over the National League. In his last appearance in the mid-summer classic, Derek Jeter leads off the game with a double and scores on a triple by Mike Trout.
Jeter goes 2 for 2, while Trout adds an RBI double in the 5th to win the game's MVP Award.
2017: Michael Fulmer allows 2 hits over 8 innings, and the #Tigers get home runs from Miguel Cabrera, J.D. Martinez, and Nick Castellanos in an 11-1 win over the blue jays.
2018: Justin Verlander's first start against the Tigers is an odd one: He mows down 12 and walks none but allows 4 home runs in a 6 - 3 loss to the Tigers. It's the first time in major league history a team has homered four times off a pitcher without walking and fanning 12 times.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Red Oldham 1914-1915, 1920-1922.
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Joe Rogalski 1938.
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Bob Miller 1953-1956.
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Scott Livingstone 1991-1994.
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