August 1 in Tigers and mlb history:
1888: The Detroit Wolverines released Deacon McGuire.
1901: Kid Nichols, in relief, and Christy Mathewson face each other for the second time in three days, with Matty winning this outing. Nichols relieves in the 7th with the score, 5 - 5, but New York scores four runs to take a 9 - 5 lead. Boston retaliates with three runs to put Matty on the ropes, but he escapes with a 9 - 8 win.
1902: Sam Crawford signed with the Tigers. He also signed with the Reds. Presidents of the Al and NL agree to allow Crawford to the Tigers.
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1903: The Giants, losers of 11 of 13 games, get a big boost today as Iron Joe McGinnity asks to pitch both ends of a doubleheader. He lives up to his name, winning both from Boston, 4 - 1 and 5 - 2, giving up just six hits in each game. Five Giants (some sources say eight) are nicked by pitches in the two games, while the two teams combine to plunk six (or 11).
1905: Cleveland "loans" catcher Jay Clarke to Detroit. He'll be returned to Cleveland, August 11. He's the third catcher this year to be sold, then returned to his original team.
1913: The Detroit Tigers purchased Lou North from Jackson (Southern Michigan).
1924: Dazzy Vance strikes out seven consecutive batters to establish a major league record as the Brooklyn Robins defeat the Cubs, 4 - 0.
1928: Babe Ruth hits home run No. 42 and is four weeks ahead of his 1927 pace.
1929: Grover Cleveland Alexander wins his 372nd game to tie Christy Mathewson's National League record for wins (the record has since been amended to 373 wins). The Cards top the Robins, 5 - 2.
1937: Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle against the Browns, as the Yankees win, 14 - 5. It is the second time he has performed this feat in his career.
1938: Al Munro Elias, founder of the Elias Sports Bureau and for many years the official statistician of the National League and International League, dies in New York City at age 67.
1940: The Detroit Tigers released Red Kress.
1941: Yankees southpaw Lefty Gomez breaks the major league mark for walks in a shutout by issuing 11 walks in a 9 - 0 victory over the Browns.
1943: Player losses to the military have taken some of the competition out of Cards-Brooklyn confrontations, but the brawling doesn't stop. A duster aimed at Stan Musial by Dodger P Les Webber clears both benches.
1945: At the Polo Grounds, Mel Ott hits his historic 500th career home run off Braves hurler Johnny Hutchings as the Giants beat Boston, 9 - 2. Master Melvin is the third major leaguer to reach this career milestone.
1948: At Cleveland, the Tribe sweep a pair from the Red Sox, 12 - 2 and 6 - 1, to move into 2nd place in the American League. Bob Lemon coasts to his 14th win in the opener, beating Ellis Kinder. Larry Doby drives in four runs. Cleveland RF Hank Edwards dislocates his shoulder crashing into the fence making a spectacular catch of Stan Spence's home run bid. Sam Zoldak wins the nightcap. The Sox drop from 1st to 4th place with the double loss; Cleveland, New York and Boston are each a game back of the A's.
1953: Warren Spahn of the Braves allows just an infield hit to Richie Ashburn in the 4th in beating Philadelphia, 5 - 0.
It is Spahn's 31st career shutout.
1954: The Dodgers' Clem Labine beans Joe Adcock in the 4th. Though he is wearing a batting helmet, Adcock is taken out of the game as a precautionary measure. His helmet apparently saves him from a serious injury. He will appear in the starting line-up the next day.
Gene Conley reciprocates by knocking down Jackie Robinson in the 6th. Robinson ends up scrapping with Eddie Mathews. The Braves win, 10 - 5, their 10th win in a row, as Conley runs his record to 10-5.
1957: The Detroit Tigers purchased Johnny Groth from the Kansas City Athletics.
1962: Drawing a combined 32 bases on balls in a doubleheader, the Tigers (20) and A's (12) tie an American League record. The Tigers sweep, winning the opener 6 - 5, with three runs in the 9th, then taking the nightcap 9 - 1 behind Howie Koplitz's (1-0) complete game effort.
1969: Dick Williams pulls Carl Yastrzemski from the Boston lineup after one at-bat and fines him $500 for "dogging it." Jim Lonborg allows just three hits over eight innings, but the A's rally in the 9th for three runs and beat the Sox, 4 - 3.
1972: Tigers manager Billy Martin gets a warning for stalling tactics in an attempt to force a rainout. Tigers threw to first base where the runner wasn't leading off, purposefully let a fly ball drop and held a relay throw in an eventual 9 inning loss to the brewers.
1973: Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk brawl at Fenway Park. With a 2 - 2 score in the top of the 9th, Munson, attempting to score from third on a missed bunt by Gene Michael, crashes into Fisk and they both come up swinging. Boston wins, 3 - 2, in the bottom of the inning.
1974: Detroit's Woodie Fryman stops Milwaukee, 2 - 0, giving up just one hit, a 7th-inning single to Bobby Mitchell.
1982: Hank Aaron, the holder of the career home run record (755) and RBI record (2,297); Frank Robinson, the first player to win the MVP in both leagues and the first black manager in the majors; Travis Jackson, an outstanding offensive and defensive shortstop for the Giants during the 1920s; and former commissioner Happy Chandler, who provided leadership in breaking baseball's color line, are inducted in the Hall of Fame.
1993: Reggie Jackson is inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.
1994: Hostilities between the owners and players heat up. The owners withhold $7.8 million they are obligated to pay the players' pension and benefit plans.
1998: By homering from both sides of the plate for the third time this season, Tiger switch-hitter Tony Clark sets an American League record as Detroit defeats the Devil Rays 8 - 0.
2001: For the 33rd time in the team's history, the Tigers turn a triple play as Mariner Mark McLemore lines out to second baseman Damion Easley, who throws to shortstop Deivi Cruz to double up Tom Lampkin. Cruz then relays the ball to first baseman Shane Halter, catching Ichiro Suzuki off first to complete Detroit's first triple killing since July 3, 1992, when the victim was also Seattle.
2006: The Detroit Tigers signed Mauricio Robles as an amateur free agent.
2006: Carlos Guillen stretches a single into a double to become the tenth Tiger to hit for the cycle in the Tigers 10 - 4 win over the rays.
2009: Rookie Andrew McCutchen homers three times and drives in 6 runs to lead the new-look Pirates to an 11 - 6 win over Washington. Pittsburgh has traded away 6 regulars over the last week and won their first two games since the deals. McCutchen is the first Pirate rookie ever to go deep three times in a contest.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lovesl01.shtml
Slim Love 1919-1920.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Milt_May
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maymi01.shtml
Milt May 1976-1979.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bohanbr01.shtml
Brian Bohanon 1995.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jarvike01.shtml
Kevin Jarvis 1997.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jeffegr01.shtml
Gregg Jefferies 1999-2000.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ramirni01.shtml
Nick Ramirez 2019.
Tigers players, coaches, or managers who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Don_Heffner
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heffndo01.shtml
Don Heffner 1944, coach 1961.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jack_Tighe
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/tigheja99.shtml
Jack Tighe coach 1942, 1955-1956, manager 1957-1958, scout 1958-1960.
Tigers minor leagues player and manager 1930's/1940's/1950's/1960's.
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