September 29 in Tigers and mlb history:
1879: Baseball's reserve clause is born. National League owners, seeking to limit player salaries, led by Boston's Arthur Soden come to a secret agrerement whereby five players on each team will be "reserved" - off-limits to all other clubs. The reserve clause will be in effect for the 1880 season. The owners tell the newspapers that they have agreed upon a uniform contract with no salary advances.
1908: Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox beats the Boston Red Sox twice in Boston by scores of 5 - 1 and 2 - 0. Walsh allows only seven hits and one walk against fifteen strikeouts in the two games.
1913: The Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 1 - 0, to give Walter Johnson his 36th win of the year.
1919: Arnold Rothstein decides to finance the World Series fix. The plan calls for Nat Evans to give a $40,000 advance to Sport Sullivan to give to the players, with an additional $40,000 to be put in a safe at the Hotel Congress in Chicago, IL. Evans takes $29,000 and bets on the Cincinnati Reds, giving Chick Gandil only $10,000.
1920: Babe Ruth hits his major league record 54th home run on the last day of the season. Only one other team in the American League will hit more than 44 homers.
1927: Babe Ruth ties his own home run record with #59 on the season. Ruth will break the record tomorrow.
1928: The New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers combine for an American League-record 45 hits in a nine-inning game. The Tigers get 28 of the hits in a 19 - 10 win.
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1934: Babe Ruth hits his last homer as a Yankee. #659 as a Yankee and #708 of his career comes off Syd Cohen in Washington, DC.
1936: The Brooklyn Dodgers drafted Luke Hamlin from the Detroit Tigers in the 1936 rule 5 draft.
1939: Hal Newhouser makes his major league debut in a loss to the indians. The HOFer will pitch 15 of his 17 seasons with the Tigers winning an even 200 games and is elected the Hall Of Fame in 1992.
1942: Satchel Paige of the Kansas City Monarchs pitches 5 2/3 innings of hitless relief against the Washington-Homestead Grays, winning 9 - 5 in Philadelphia in the 1942 Colored World Series, finishing a four-game sweep of the Grays.
1947: Joe McCarthy comes out of retirement, accepting the managing job of the Boston Red Sox for 1948. When asked about Ted Williams, McCarthy responds "A manager who cannot get along with a .400 hitter ought to have his head examined."
1950: Tigers are eliminated from the pennant race by Cleveland with 2 games to play. It will be the Tigers' last contending team until the 101 win Tigers team of 1961.
1954: Willie Mays makes his famous running catch off the bat of Cleveland's Vic Wertz in Game one of the World Series.
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1957: Ted Williams becomes the oldest batting champ when the 39-year old finishes the season with a .388 average.
1957: The New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers play their last games as New York teams. The Giants lose to the Pittsburgh Pirates at the Polo Grounds, 9 - 1, while the Dodgers lose to the Philadelphia Phillies at Shibe Park, 2 - 1.
1968: The Tigers finish a memorable season with a 3 - 2 loss at home to the senators. They finish the year at 103-59 and head to St. Louis to face the Cardinals in game 1 of the World Series.
1972: Jim Northrup goes 4-for-4 with a double and 5 RBIs in an important 12 - 5 win for the Tigers over the brewers down the stretch.
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1974: Lou Brock steals his 118th and last base on the final day of the season.
1978: Jim Rice doubles and singles against the Toronto Blue Jays in Fenway Park. Rice is the first American Leaguer to amass 400 total bases since Joe DiMaggio in 1937.
1984: Tigers set franchise record with their 104th win an 11 - 3 beat down of the yankees.
Juan Berenguer gets his 11th win. Home runs by Larry Herndon, Lance Parrish, and Dwight Lowry.
The record still stands: the closest they've gotten since is 98 wins in '87 and 95 in 2006 and 2012.
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1986: Bert Blyleven surrenders three homers to the Cleveland Indians, giving him 49 on the year, breaking the major league record of 46 set by Robin Roberts in 1956.
1996: Alan Trammell goes 2-for-4 with an RBI in his final game, a loss to the brewers. He hits a single in 10th and is lifted for a pinch runner at Tiger Stadium as the fans stand in unison to give the Tigers icon a standing ovation.
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2002: Ernie Harwell calls his final game as the voice of the Tigers a 1 - 0 loss to the blue jays.
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2003: Gene Kingsale of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2004: Major League Baseball officially announces that the Montreal Expos franchise will move to Washington, DC in 2005.
Hours after this, the Expos play their final game in Montreal, a 9 - 1 loss to the Florida Marlins before a crowd of 31,395 at Olympic Stadium.
2009: Tigers honor the 1984 world championship team on the 25th anniversary of their title.
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2014: Kevin Whelan of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Nicholas Castellanos becomes the 10th player in Tigers history to have a 100-RBI season at age 25-or-younger in a loss to the twins.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Tony Rensa 1930.
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Bob Anderson 1963.
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Rich Reese 1973.
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Jim Crawford 1976-1978.
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Rob Deer 1991-1993.
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Jermaine Clark 2001
Tigers players and announcers who passed away:
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Jack Rowan 1906.
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Van Patrick announcer 1949, 1952-1959.
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