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July 25 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: Christy Mathewson wins his 16th, defeating the Reds, 7 - 2. The game is close until Frank Bowerman belts a three-run homer in the 8th for the Giants. Cincy fans get a scare in the 1st inning when Reds catcher Ed Phelps is knocked unconscious when he is struck by the back swing of Sam Mertes. Phelps is rushed to a hospital.

1908: With the Highlanders leading the Tigers 3 - 2 in the 8th, Detroit scores two runs on a Ty Cobb triple. With lefty Claude Rossman the next hitter, New York's new manager Kid Elberfeld moves righty pitcher Jack Chesbro to 1B and replaces him with first baseman Hal Chase. Chase allows a fly ball that scores Cobb, then goes back to 1B and Chesbro resumes his spot on the mound. It is Chase's only pitching appearance as the Tigers win, 5 - 3.

1916: Tigers' Harry Heilmann dives into the Detroit River to save three people from drowning.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAQ40PUWwAA_Oe3?format=jpg&name=small

1918: Walter Johnson gives up one hit (a triple by George Sisler) in the first 11 innings of a 15-inning, four-hit, 1 - 0 win.

1921: The Detroit Tigers released Eddie Ainsmith.

1930: The A's pull off triple steals twice in one game against the Indians. Al Simmons, Bing Miller, and Dib Williams are the base thieves in the 1st inning, and Mickey Cochrane, Simmons, and Jimmie Foxx steal together in the 4th.

1941: Forty-one-year-old Lefty Grove wins his 300th game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 10 - 6, before a Fenway Park Ladies Day crowd of 16,000. Though he will make six more starts, this will be Grove's last career win.

1944: The Detroit Tigers released Charlie Metro.

1959: Against Detroit, Yankee first baseman Moose Skowron reaching for a wide throw, collides with Tiger runner Coot Veal. Skowron's arm is broken in two places and he is out for the rest of the season. Marv Throneberry will fill in at 1B. The Yanks win, 9 - 8, when Yogi Berra hits a home run in the 9th with Mickey Mantle on. Prior to the Yogi home run, Bobby Richardson and Fritz Brickell hit their first major league homers for New York. Berra's home run erases five Yankee errors, three by 3B Hector Lopez.

1961: With his four-home run performance in the doubleheader sweep over the White Sox, Roger Maris moves 25 games ahead of Babe Ruth's 1927 pace. The Yankee slugger now has 40 for the year and will finish the season with a record 61 round trippers.
Mickey Mantle also homers off Frank Baumann in the first game. He ends the day with 38 home runs.

1962: Stan Musial becomes the National League's all-time leader in runs batted in with 1,862, driving in both of the Cardinal runs in a 5 - 2 loss to the Dodgers.

1966: Red Sox great Ted Williams is inducted into the Hall of Fame. In his induction speech the "Spendid Splinter" makes a strong appeal for the inclusion of Negro League stars at Cooperstown.

1967: Race riots in Detroit force postponement of a Tigers-Orioles game. The games scheduled for the 26th and 27th are shifted to Baltimore.

1993: Detroit P Mike Moore hurls a one-hit, 3 - 0 shutout over the Royals. Wally Joyner's 2nd-inning single is the only Kansas City safety.

1998: Former Yankees P Jim Bouton makes his first appearance at Yankee Stadium since 1970 at Oldtimers Day and is greeted with cheers all around. Bouton had been persona non grata in New York since writing Ball Four, which broke a long-standing taboo in sports by taking readers into the locker room and revealing players' extracurricular escapades. The Yanks invited the Bulldog back after his son wrote a Father's Day article in the New York Times suggesting it.

1999: The Tigers defeat the Red Sox, 9 - 1, as 1B Tony Clark homers from both sides of the plate for the second time this season.
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1999: Nolan Ryan, Robin Yount, George Brett, Nestor Chylak, Orlando Cepeda, Frank Selee and 'Smokey' Joe Williams are enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

2002: The Los Angeles Dodgers traded Hiram Bocachica to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later and Tom Farmer (minors). The Detroit Tigers sent Jason Frasor (September 18, 2002) to the Los Angeles Dodgers to complete the trade.

2010: The Detroit Tigers released Billy Buckner.

2010: In a ceremony held in Cooperstown, NY, outfielder Andre Dawson, manager Whitey Herzog and umpire Doug Harvey are inducted into the Hall of Fame. During his acceptance speech, Dawson urges the election of former teammates Tim Raines and Lee Smith.

2019: The Detroit Tigers signed Jake Thompson as a free agent.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Larry_Sherry
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sherrla01.shtml
Larry Sherry 1964-1967.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/scherfr01.shtml
Fred Scherman 1969-1973.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mick_Kelleher
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellemi02.shtml
Mick Kelleher 1981-1982, coach 2003-2005.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Torey_Lovullo
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lovulto01.shtml
Torey Lovullo 1988-1989.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bautijo01.shtml
Jose Bautista 1997.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/preslal01.shtml
Alex Presley 2016-2017.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Norm_McRae
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcraeno01.shtml
Norm McRae 1969-1970.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/jeimer-candelario-taking-fielding-practice-at-first-base
Candelario taking reps at first base.
Tigers seeking options to pave way for prospect Lugo.
Tigers official site

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...add-first-base-candelarios-resume/1825583001/
'Trying to shake it up': Tigers working to add first base to Candelario's resume.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...jeimer-candelario-first-base-move/1833604001/
Why Detroit Tigers' Jeimer Candelario fielding experiment is no surprise.
Freep
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/drew-verhagen-starts-strong-then-struggles
VerHagen can't sustain early success.
Tigers righty makes first start of 2019, but struggles with command.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/7...-tigers-2-detroit-offense-sleeping-in-seattle
Mariners 10, Tigers 2: Seattle holds Tigers to 5 hits.
Drew VerHagen looked good early, but it didn?t last.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...426#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=566426
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...ce-off-rocky-start-ms-rout-tigers/1834674001/
VerHagen's final last chance off to a rocky start, Mariners rout Tigers.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...oit-tigers-seattle-mariners-score/1834704001/
Detroit Tigers continue bad baseball, slammed 10-2 by Mariners.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/0...st-coast-trip-with-10-2-loss-to-mariners.html
Tigers start with West Coast trip with 10-2 loss to Mariners.
Mlive
 
July 26 in Tigers and mlb history:

1908: The Detroit Tigers selected George Winter off waivers from the Boston Red Sox.

1910: The Detroit Tigers purchased Art Loudell from Waco (Texas).

1911: Christy Mathewson wins his 21st straight game against the Cincinnati Reds, 5 - 3. He replaces Hooks Wiltse in the 8th and his single in the 9th scores a run to help win it.

1916: Tigers favorite Harry Heilmann gets an appreciative hand from the crowd for having dived into the Detroit River last night to save a woman from drowning.

1927: Max Carey, who played 17 years with the Pirates before he was dismissed, returns to Pittsburgh in a Robins uniform and makes a clean steal of home in the 6th inning. It is his 33rd and last steal of home, a National League record.

1928: Ty Cobb goes 2-for-5 with a double in his final career start, for the Athletics at Comiskey Park.

1933: The 61-game hitting streak of the San Francisco Seals' 18-year-old rookie, Joe DiMaggio, is stopped by Ed Walsh, Jr. of the Oakland Oaks.

1936: The Tigers strand 14 runners and lose to Boston and Wes Ferrell, 10 - 3. The Tigers have 13 hits, including those of Goose Goslin who goes 3 for 3. Jimmie Foxx hits his 28th homer of the year in Boston's five-run 8th, then hits another in the 9th, to pin the loss on Elden Auker.

1937: Mickey Cochrane resumes command of the Detroit Tigers as a bench manager.

1941: Baseball Immortals Together Again - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker fondly reflect on their days in the big leagues.
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1948: Babe Ruth makes his final public appearance at the New York premiere of The Babe Ruth Story. The Sultan of Swat will die three weeks later.

1957: Jim Bunning of the Tigers 2-hits New York 3 - 2, but one of the hits is Mickey Mantle's 200th homer of his career. Al Kaline knocks in the two Tigers runs.

1960: The Detroit Tigers purchased Harry Chiti from the Kansas City Athletics.
1960: The Detroit Tigers traded Rocky Bridges and Red Wilson to the Cleveland Indians for Hank Foiles.

1962: In New York pitcher Gene Conley and infielder Pumpsie Green of the Red Sox mysteriously disappear after a 13 - 3 loss to the Yankees.
They leave the team bus in traffic to use a rest room and fail to return.
Conley decides he wants to fly to Israel, and goes to the airport, but is refused a ticket because he does not have a visa. Conley was the loser in the game, pitching 2 2/3 inning, and walking in two of the eight earned runs allowed. Pumpsie did not play.

1962: Warren Spahn hits his 31st career homer, off Craig Anderson, setting a National League record for pitchers, in a 6 - 1 Braves win.

1968: The Detroit Tigers traded Dennis Ribant to the Chicago White Sox for Don McMahon.

1968: Leaving with a strained knee after five innings of pitching, Earl Wilson of the Tigers earns a 4 - 1 win in the opener of three games with the Orioles. Rookie Daryl Patterson provides spectacular relief coming in with the bases loaded in the 6th and striking out the side. Boog Powell's homer in the 8th is the only tally for the O's. The win increases the Tigers' lead over the O's to 6 1/2 games.
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1970: Johnny Bench of the Reds and Orlando Cepeda of the Braves each collect three consecutive homers and seven RBIs during respective games with the Cardinals and Cubs. Bench hits all three off Steve Carlton and adds a single in the Reds' 12 - 5 win over the Cards. Bench now has 33 homers and 95 RBIs to lead the majors.

1974: The Detroit Tigers signed Sheldon Burnside as an amateur free agent.

1977: Jack Morris pitches 4 innings of relief in his major league debut.

1987: Catfish Hunter, Billy Williams, and Ray Dandridge are inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

1992: Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter, reaching that mark for a record 23rd year in a row. He subdues the Orioles, 6 - 2, and passes Phil Niekro as number 12 on the all-time win list with 319.

1997: The Detroit Tigers signed Marcus Jensen as a free agent.

1998: Don Sutton and Larry Doby are inducted into the Hall of Fame along with Lee MacPhail, George Davis and Joe Rogan. MacPhail joins his dad, Larry MacPhail, to become the first father and son duo to be enshrined at Cooperstown, NY.

2009: Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice and Joe Gordon are inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Cooperstown, NY. Gordon is the first player to be voted in by the Veterans Committee since its rules were reformulated following the controversial election of Bill Mazeroski in 2001.

2012: The Miami Marlins sent Brad Davis to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.

2014: The Hall of Fame announces a change in voting rules, as players will now be able to stay on the BBWAA ballot for a maximum of 10 and not 15 years, as long as they meet the minimum 5% threshold. The move is designed to prevent the ballot from becoming overly crowded because of players tainted by steroids staying on the ballot for years on end with no realistic chance of election, but drawing votes away from more legitimate candidates. However, a number of inductees with an untainted record have had to wait over 10 years for election in recent years, such as Jim Rice, Bert Blyleven or Andre Dawson, making it likely that the rule change will have the effect of also squeezing out some worthy candidates.

2015: Four players, all elected by the BBWAA, are inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY as the Class of 2015: pitchers Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz, all elected on their first presence on the ballot, and 2B Craig Biggio.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Larry_Woodall
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/woodala01.shtml
Larry Woodall 1920-1929.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jimmy_Bloodworth
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bloodji01.shtml
Jimmy Bloodworth 1942-1943, 1946.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/welchmi02.shtml
Milt Welch 1945.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/knoxjo01.shtml
John Knox 1972-1975.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reedjo01.shtml
Jody Reed 1997.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Joaquin_Benoit
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/benoijo01.shtml
Joaquin Benoit 2011-2013.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lathech01.shtml
Chick Lathers 1910-1911.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2019/07/25/twice-as-nice-30/
TWICE AS NICE.
Totally Tigers

Every day, the trade deadline gets closer and closer. And all the same names continue to be mentioned as Tiger players who could be traded by the end of the month.

With Nick Castellanos, Matthew Boyd, Shane Greene and Joe Jimenez all on the trading block, the Tigers have made a couple new signings.

Kurt and Holly will give their answers to the following question regarding the Tigers? acquisition of Trevor Rosenthal and Edwin Jackson.

Let?s take a look at this week?s question for our writers.

The Tigers have recently signed Trevor Rosenthal and Edwin Jackson to contracts. How should we interpret these moves?
 
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