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October 22 in Tigers and mlb history:

1845: The first known box score appears in the New York Morning News a month after the first set of rules are written by Alexander Cartwright and some his fellow New York Knickerbockers.

1910: After three straight defeats and trailing the Philadelphia Athletics, 3 - 2, in the 9th inning of Game 5, the Chicago Cubs tie the score, then win, 4 - 3, in 10 innings for their only victory in the World Series. Three Finger Brown, in relief, is the winning pitcher over Chief Bender, who throws a complete game.

1920: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox are indicted for supposedly throwing the 1919 World Series. Although considered heavy favorites to win the Series, the White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds in eight games in what will become known as the Black Sox Scandal.

1956: The Detroit Tigers released Walt Masterson.

1960: The San Francisco Giants lose to their Tokyo counterparts, the Yomiuri Giants, 1 - 0, in the first of a 16-game exhibition series. San Francisco will lose again, 2 - 1, to the Japan All-Stars tomorrow, but will finish the series with 11 wins, four losses, and one tie.

1972: The Athletics defeat Cincinnati, 3 - 2, to win their first World Series since the franchise's move to Oakland. Gene Tenace, named Series MVP, drives in two of Oakland's runs. Future Hall of Fame pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter earns the victory in relief.

1975: The Detroit Tigers released Gene Michael.

1975: In a fitting finish to one of the most classic World Series ever played, the Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Red Sox in a thrilling Game 7 victory, 4 - 3. Joe Morgan's 9th-inning looping single scoring Ken Griffey proves to be the decisive hit.

1984: World Series MVP Alan Trammell appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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1985: Pitcher Bret Saberhagen gives the Kansas City Royals their first World Series victory with a complete game 6 - 1 decision in Game 3. The St. Louis Cardinals had won the Series' first two games, played in Kansas City.

1998: Luis Pineda of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2000: Although lacking big league managerial experience, Pittsburgh Pirates hitting coach Lloyd McClendon is named as the team's manager, replacing recently-fired Gene Lamont.

2001: Willie Blair of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2002: Lou Gehrig's consecutive games streak being broken by Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1995 is voted as baseball's most memorable moment by the fans participating in a Major League Baseball and MasterCard promotion. Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home run record, Jackie Robinson becoming the first black to play in MLB, Mark McGwire breaking Roger Maris' single-season home run record and Gehrig's farewell speech were also in the top five events selected by the fans.

2006: Sparky Anderson throws out the first pitch before Game 2 of the World Series at Comerica Park.
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2006: Kenny Rogers continues his mastery in the post-season, extending his scoreless innings streak to 23 with eight shutout frames in Detroit’s 3-1 victory in Game Two of the World Series. During the game, the Cardinals ask the umpires to examine Rogers’ glove for a foreign substance, citing a dark smudge on his pitching hand. Rogers claims the smudge is dirt from the mound. Carlos Guillen goes 3-for-3 with a double and triple. Craig Monroe hits his 2nd HR of the series.
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2011: Albert Pujols has one of the greatest games in World Series history as he hits three homers, collects 5 hits and drives in 6 runs in Game 3 of the World Series in Arlington, TX. The Cardinals batter Texas, 16 - 7, in the third highest-scoring game ever in the Fall Classic, and are now up two games to one.
Pujols ties World Series single-game records for homers (Babe Ruth twice and Reggie Jackson), hits (Paul Molitor) and RBI (Bobby Richardson and Hideki Matsui) and sets a record with 14 total bases.

2014: Major League Baseball hands out its newly-named reliever awards for the first time.
In the National League, Craig Kimbrel of the Braves is the winner of the initial Trevor Hoffman Award,
while in the American league, Greg Holland of the Royals wins the Mariano Rivera Award.

2017: The Red Sox announce that they have hired Astros bench coach Alex Cora to be their new manager. He replaces John Farrell, who was let go on October 11th after seeing the team eliminated in the Division Series for the second straight year.

2019: Playing the first World Series game in franchise history, the Nationals win Game 1 of the 2019 World Series, 5 - 4, over the Astros. The game is billed as a match-up between star pitchers Max Scherzer and Gerrit Cole, but it's the hitters who steal the show, with Washington's Juan Soto getting three hits, including a homer and a two-run double off Cole, and George Springer homers in his fifth straight World Series game for Houston. Scherzer is the winner, working hard to get through five innings, and Sean Doolittle records the save.

Tigers players birthdays:

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

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thomabr01.shtml
Brad Thomas 2010-2011.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Drew_VerHagen
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/verhadr01.shtml
Drew VerHagen 2014-2019.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/torreca01.shtml
Carlos Torres 2019.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/scheifr01.shtml
Frank Scheibeck 1906.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pinelba01.shtml
Babe Pinelli 1920.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Earl_Whitehill
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/whiteea01.shtml
Earl Whitehill 1923-1932.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tsitojo01.shtml
John Tsitouris 1957.

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More proof of Jim Leyland's influence with the Tigers. He's all over both radio and tv doing interviews and the Tigers are sending him to the World Series as their rep. This is where teams network and start talking deals.
Fuck.
 
October 23 in Tigers and mlb history:

1910: Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Jack Coombs wins his third game of the World Series, beating the Chicago Cubs, 7 - 2, as the Athletics take the championship in five games. Eddie Collins helps Coombs with three hits, including two doubles.

1920: The Chicago grand jury indictment adds the names of former featherweight boxing champ Abe Attell and baseball players Hal Chase and Bill Burns as go-betweens in the 1919 World Series scandal. Ed Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Lefty Williams and Happy Felsch sign confessions, which they will later recant.

1923: Babe Ruth makes a postseason appearance in a New York Giants uniform as the Giants defeat the minor league Baltimore Orioles, 9 - 0. Ruth hits a home run over the right field roof at the Polo Grounds. The game is a benefit for destitute former Giants owner John Day.

1935: Gabby Hartnett is selected by the Baseball Writers Association of America as the National League MVP, with Dizzy Dean the runner-up.

1945: Branch Rickey announces the signing of Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers organization. The 26-year old Negro League star will be the first black player to play in Organized Baseball since 1899 and the first in the majors since 1884, paving the way for integration.

1961: The Detroit Tigers released Frank House.

1970: The Detroit Tigers sent Wayne Redmond to the Philadelphia Phillies as part of a conditional deal.

1973: the Tigers trade veteran infielder Dick McAuliffe to the Boston Red Sox for outfielder Ben Oglivie.
McAuliffe had spent 14 seasons with Detroit, serving as an important part of the team as the Tigers advanced to the World Series in 1968 and 1972 Playoffs.

1979: Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minnesota marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches to close a gash in his lip. The fight will result in Martin being fired as Yankees manager for the second time.

1983: Keith Comstock of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1987: Dickie Noles returned to the Chicago Cubs by the Detroit Tigers as part of earlier loan.

1991: The Kansas City Royals selected Rusty Meacham off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1993: In one of the most dramatic endings in World Series history, Joe Carter hits a three-run, 9th-inning home run off Mitch Williams for an 8 - 6 win and Toronto's second straight World Championship. Paul Molitor, who hits .500 (12 for 24), is named Series MVP. Following the 2010 season, a panel of experts at the MLB Network will vote this game the 14th greatest of the past fifty years.

1998: Geronimo Berroa of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2019: The Nationals win their record-tying eighth straight game this postseason by crushing Houston, 11 - 3, in Game 2 of the 2019 World Series. After both teams score twice in the 1st, the game settles down with no more scoring until the 7th, when Kurt Suzuki homers off Justin Verlander to start a six-run inning that gets the rout going. Stephen Strasburg is the winner.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Sullivan_(sullibi04)
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sullibi04.shtml
Billy Sullivan 1940-1941.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jim_Bunning
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bunniji01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bcacaa59
Jim Bunning 1955-1963.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dwight_Lowry
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lowrydw01.shtml
Dwight Lowry 1984, 1986-1987.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shortch01.shtml
Chick Shorten 1919-1921.

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October 24 in Tigers and mlb history:

1908: Baseball's anthem, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, is introduced by singer Billy Murray. The songwriting team of Albert Von Tilzer (music) and Jack Norworth (words), who created the immortal tune, had never seen a game before composing the immortal number.

1911: The World Series between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics is resumed after six days of rain, and Chief Bender beats Christy Mathewson, 4 - 2, to give the Athletics a 3-1 lead.

1922: The Detroit Tigers selected Frank O'Rourke off waivers from the Boston Red Sox.

1939: Joe DiMaggio is named American League MVP, with Jimmie Foxx the runner-up.

1956: The Associated Press names Cincinnati Reds manager Birdie Tebbetts as its National League Manager of the Year.

1963: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax is the unanimous winner of the Cy Young Award.

1963: Yogi Berra is named Yankees manager to replace Ralph Houk. He leads an aging team to another AL pennant in a tumultous season, but is fired after a seven-game World Series loss to the Cardinals.

1967: Jerry Lumpe announces his retirement. Tigers second baseman 1964-67, made All-Star team in '64.
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1972: Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson dies of heart disease at age 53. Robinson had become the first black major league player of the 20th century with the 1947 Dodgers.

1981: The Los Angeles Dodgers come back to beat the New York Yankees, 8 - 7, in a sloppy three-hour marathon and tie the World Series, 2-2. The Yankees blow a 6 - 3 lead. On one play, Reggie Jackson loses the ball in the sun and it bounces off his shoulder for a two-base error.

1988: Doyle Alexander of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1994: Bill Gullickson of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2000: The Detroit Tigers signed Sean Runyan as a free agent.

2006: Chris Carpenter holds the #Tigers to 3 hits over 8 innings as the Cardinals take Game 3 of the World Series in St. Louis.

2012: Pablo Sandoval becomes the fourth player in World Series history to hit three homers in a game, after Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson and Albert Pujols, in leading San Francisco to an 8 - 3 win over Detroit in Game 1 of the 2012 World Series. Barry Zito pitches 5 2/3 innings for the win, as Tigers ace Justin Verlander is the loser.

2016: Michael Fulmer named AL Rookie of the Year.
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2018: Jim Adduci of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Louis Coleman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Pete Kozma of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Artie Lewicki off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2019: The Astros fire Assistant General Manager Brandon Taubman a few days after he yelled highly offensive comments at female reporters during the team's clubhouse celebration after winning the ALCS. The Astros at first called the reports of Taubman's behavior a complete fabrication, before retracting in the face of numerous witnesses who corroborated the original story.

2019: Blaine Hardy of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

Tigers players, manager, and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithhe01.shtml
Heinie Smith 1903.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hugh_High
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/highhu01.shtml
Hugh High 1913-1914.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/russeja01.shtml
Jack Russell 1937.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Bullard
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bullage01.shtml
George Bullard 1954.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnsda04.shtml
Dave Johnson 1993.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Rafael_Belliard
Rafael Belliard coach 2006-2013.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcbrima01.shtml
Macay McBride 2007.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ron_Gardenhire
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/gardero01.shtml
Ron Gardenhire manager 2018-2020.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o'marol01.shtml
Ollie O'Mara 1912.

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