July 24 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: In a baseball rarity, the Pittsburgh Pirates score in every inning, a major-league record of course, defeating the Reds, 11 - 2. Deacon Phillippe is the winner over Jesse Tannehill, who will be his teammate next year.
1905: Tigers workhorse George Mullin surrenders his first over-the-fence home run in two years and 15 days.
He won’t give up another one until July 2, 1910.
1911: An American League All-Star team plays the Naps in Cleveland, raising $12,914 for the late Addie Joss's family. The All-Stars win, 5 - 3. Joe Wood and Walter Johnson pitch for the All-Stars, while Cy Young twirls for the Naps.
1926: Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth demonstrate that power hitting is not the only thing they can do when Lou scores on a double steal with the Babe in a victory over the White Sox.
1933: Frank Frisch is appointed manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, replacing Gabby Street.
1938: 44-year-old Babe Ruth, roughly three years into his retirement and currently first base coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers, launches one 430 feet out of Sportsman's Park to win the $50 grand prize in a pre-game distance-hitting contest featuring an otherwise active pool of contestants including Cardinals Joe Medwick (the runner-up at 425 feet), Johnny Mize and Don Padgett, as well as Brooklyn's Dolph Camilli and Ernie Koy.
1939: The Detroit Tigers release oft-injured Dixie Walker. He signs with Brooklyn, with whom he will have his most productive year.
1958: After yesterday's Kansas City spitting episode, Boston's Ted Williams, for the second time in less than two years, is fined for his transgression, though in this instance by the league rather than his own GM, and for the relatively painless sum of $250 rather than the somewhat draconian $5000 extracted from the "Splinter" on August 7, 1956. Upon being informed of the league's decision, Teddy delivers this heartfelt apology: "I'm sorry I did it. I was so mad at the park that I lost my temper and afterward I was sorry about it. I'm principally sorry about losing the $250."
1961: In an unusual mid-season exhibition match at Yankee Stadium, the San Francisco Giants beat their former cross-town rivals, 4 - 1. Mickey Mantle's homer accounts for the only Bronx Bombers run and Willie Mays has two RBIs for the visiting "Jints". 50,000 fans are on hand.
1961: At Kansas City, Detroit P Frank Lary collides with rookie 3B Steve Boros, and both players leave the game with injuries. Lary does not miss a start but Boros's collarbone is broken and he will not return. He has 53 RBIs to date.
1964: Hank Aguirre gives up five runs on three homers to New York in the first four innings, but the Tigers overcome a 5 - 2 deficit to win 10 - 5. Late 2 run homers by Jerry Lumpe 2B, and "Mr. Everything" Al Kaline RF, his a deep blast to left center gets the win for the Tigers and relief pitcher Larry Sherry.
Kaline hits another 2-run homer in Game 2 of a doubleheader, but the Tigers lose 6-3.
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1965: Tigers win 7-4 over the whitesox on home runs by Norm Cash, Al Kaline, and Bill Freehan.
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1967: Tigers announce they are moving 2 games with the Orioles to Baltimore after civil unrest in Detroit.
1968: Two eighth inning pinch hit singles turned a 4-3 Washington lead into a 5-4 #Tigers lead. Jon Warden then saved Denny McLain's 19th victory as Detroit won the opener of this three game series in the Nation's Capitol, 6-4.
1968: Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th game breaks Cy Young's record for major league pitching appearances, but he loses a 2 - 1 decision to Oakland.
1970: Chicago's Bill Melton ties the major-league record by striking out seven times in a doubleheader split with Detroit. Melton will strike out his first three times up in his next game, in Baltimore on the 28th, before flying out in the 9th.
The Sox win the opener today, 5 - 2, with six straight singles and five runs in the 9th. The Tigers win the nitecap, 5 - 4, in the 9th when Don Wert draws a walk from Wilbur Wood with the sacks full.
1970: For the 4th time in his career, Billy Williams has the only hit(s) for the Cubs, as he connects safely twice against the Braves' Phil Niekro. Each time previously, Williams also had multiple-hit games to spoil no-hitters. Niekro coasts to a 9 - 0 victory over Fergie Jenkins.
1973: Although not selected, Willie Mays appears in the All-Star Game thanks to Commissioner Bowie Kuhn increasing the player limit so the "Say Hey Kid" can participate in the Mid-summer classic. Mays strikes out in his final All-Star appearance. The National League wins, 7 - 1. A record 54 players are used, including Catfish Hunter, who sustains a fractured thumb that will sideline him for four weeks. The A's ace has a 15-3 record at the time.
1983: In the memorable "Pine Tar Game" at Yankee Stadium, George Brett hits an apparent 2-run home run off Rich Gossage to give the Kansas City Royals a 5 - 4 lead with two outs in the 9th inning, only to have the homer taken away when Yankees manager Billy Martin, at the urging of coach Don Zimmer, points out that the pine tar on Brett's bat handle exceeds the 17 inches allowed in the rules. As a result, Brett is called out for illegally batting the ball, giving New York a 4 - 3 victory. Brett goes ballistic and the Royals immediately protest. American League President Lee MacPhail overrules his umpires for the first time, saying that the umpire's call went against the spirit of the rule, which should be rewritten and clarified, and that the home run will stand. The game will be resumed from that point on August 18th.
1983: Detroit’s star shortstop Alan Trammell has his only 5-for-5 day in the Tigers 4 - 3 win over the angels.
1984: Tigers beat the indians 9 - 5. Milt Wilcox gets his 10th win. Tigers get home runs from Lou Whitaker, Kirk Gibson, and Dave Bergman. Tigers are 11-2 coming out of the All-Star break, improve to 68-29.
1987: Lou Whitaker hits a home run and a double to give the Tigers a 6-3 win over the Angels. Tigers are 2 games behind the Yankees in the AL East.
1993: The Detroit Tigers signed Storm Davis as a free agent.
2001: The Yankees edge the Tigers 6 - 5, despite an 8th-inning moon shot by Detroit's Juan Encarnacion, off Ramiro Mendoza, that lands in the second row of the empty blue bleacher seats in left CF. It is believed to be the first ball hit into that area since Yankee Stadium was remodeled in 1976.
2002: The Detroit Tigers selected Erik Sabel off waivers from the Arizona Diamondbacks.
2002: The Tigers shut out the Royals 3 - 0, in one hour and 41 minutes - the fastest 9-inning game in the major leagues since 1984.
2011: 2B Roberto Alomar, P Bert Blyleven and GM Pat Gillick are inducted into the Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Cooperstown, NY. The day has special significance for fans of the Toronto Blue Jays as both Alomar and Gillick had their greatest success with the Jays' back-to-back World Series-winning teams in 1992 and 1993.
2012: The Yanks make history by becoming the first team since the 1927 Athletics to have three players (Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins) with 2,500+ career hits in the starting lineup. New York uses Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and the newly-acquired Ichiro Suzuki to pull that off.
2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Jair Jurrjens as a free agent.
2016: Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza are inducted into the Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Cooperstown, NY. Griffey obtained the highest percentage of the vote ever - 99.3% - in being elected in his first year of eligibility by the BBWAA, while Piazza made it on his fourth try. A crowd estimated at 50,000, the second-largest ever at Cooperstown, is on hand to witness the event.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Jesse Stoval 1904.
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Chris Lindsay 1905-1906.
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Jeff Kaiser 1991.
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Joe Oliver 1998.
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Jason Smith 2004-2005.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Ed Fisher 1902.
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Joe Orengo 1944.
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