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SAME FACES, DIFFERENT ? AND FIRST- PLACES.
Totally Tigers

Just in the past 3 years, 10 Tigers (excluding minor and short-term players) have received their World Series rings:
Dave Dombrowski, Ian Kinsler, J.D. Martinez, Cameron Maybin, Rick Porcello, David Price, Fernando Rodney, Anibal Sanchez, Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander. Oh, and we can?t forget Donnie Kelly Baby?Make that 11.
 
November 1 in Tigers and mlb history:

1892: Statistics for the first 154-game season show that Dan Brouthers of the Brooklyn Grooms was the top hitter at .335, and Cy Young of the Cleveland Spiders the top pitcher in terms of wins with a 36-11 record.

1914: Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack begins cleaning house, asking waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank and Chief Bender. Coombs goes to the Brooklyn Robins as Plank and Bender escape Mack's manoeuvering by jumping to the Federal League. Despite winning the American League pennant, Philadelphia fans did not support the Athletics and the club lost $50,000.

1922: Former Philadelphia Athletics catcher Ira Thomas buys the Shreveport club in the Texas League for $75,000. Other former players who own pieces of minor league clubs include Ty Cobb (Augusta), Eddie Collins (Baltimore), and George Stallings (Rochester).

1942: The Brooklyn Dodgers name Branch Rickey team president, replacing Larry MacPhail who enters the Army. Rickey had resigned as vice-president of the Cardinals only three days earlier.

1943: The Detroit Tigers drafted Eddie Mayo from the Boston Red Sox in the 1943 rule 5 draft.
1943: The Detroit Tigers drafted Joe Orengo from St Paul (American Association) in the 1943 rule 5 draft.

1944: The Philadelphia Athletics drafted Mayo Smith from the Detroit Tigers in the 1944 rule 5 draft.

1946: The Chicago White Sox drafted Bob Gillespie from the Detroit Tigers in the 1946 rule 5 draft.

1946: Surgeons amputate the right foot of Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck. Two years before, the colorful executive had suffered a serious injury to his leg in the South Pacific during World War II. Veeck has had a tremendous impact on promotion in a half season of ownership. A minor but typical change is the regular posting of National League scores on the Cleveland scoreboard, a departure from the long-standing practice of both leagues. In spite of the amputation, Veeck will remain an active owner through the 1970s.

1949: Gillette buys the World Series television rights for $1.37 million, the money to be dedicated to the players' pension fund.

1951: Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella is named National League MVP for what will be the first of three such awards.

1962: The Houston Colt .45s sign 19-year-old second baseman Joe Morgan as an amateur free agent. Morgan will make his major league debut next season, kicking off a 22-year Hall of Fame career.

1966: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax becomes the first three-time winner of the Cy Young Award. He is a unanimous winner for the second straight year. This is the last year that only one award is given for pitchers in both of the major leagues.

1968: Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain is the unanimous American League winner of the Cy Young Award. McLain posted a 31-6 record, leading the A.L. in CG 28, IP 336, with 280 strikeouts and a 1.96 ERA, helping Detroit to the AL pennant.
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1977: The Detroit Free Press endorses Billy Rogell, "a Detroit institution," for his 12th term on City Council. Rogell was the Tigers' shortstop from 1930-1940, and won a world championship in 1935.
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1978: New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry is the unanimous choice for the 1978 American League Cy Young Award. Guidry led the league in wins (25), winning percentage (.893), shutouts (9), and ERA (1.74).

1982: At a meeting in Chicago, the major league owners vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract. The American League owners vote in favor of Kuhn 11-3, and the National League 7-5. But his 18 votes leave him 2 shy of the three-fourths majority required for reelection. Kuhn will remain on the job until a successor is found. He will eventually be replaced by Peter Ueberroth.

1991: Jerry Don Gleaton of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1993: The Detroit Tigers signed Eric Davis as a free agent.

1996: The Detroit Tigers traded Clint Sodowsky to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Dan Miceli.

1997: The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opens in its new home in Kansas City, Missouri. It had been occupying a temporary site there for four years.

1997: The Detroit Tigers signed Fernando Rodney as an amateur free agent.

2000: Juan Gonzalez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2000: Hal Morris of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2001: The first major league game ever started in the month of November is a memorable one as the New York Yankees, for the second consecutive night, make a dramatic comeback in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game and go on to victory in extra innings in Game 5 of the World Series. In an amazing case of history repeating itself, Arizona Diamondbacks closer Byung-Hyun Kim is again victimized, this time by Scott Brosius, who hits a game-tying two-out two-run home run to knot the game at 2 - 2 in the 9th inning, as Alfonso Soriano hits a RBI single with Chuck Knoblauch scoring the winning run in the 12th to give the Yankees a 3 - 2 victory and a 3-2 lead over Arizona.

2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Tim Christman as a free agent.

2010: Jeremy Bonderman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Johnny Damon of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Gerald Laird of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Magglio Ordonez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Bobby Seay of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2013: Jose Veras of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2013: The Houston Astros selected Darin Downs off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2014: Evan Reed of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2017: The Houston Astros win the first World Series title in their history by defeating the Dodgers, 5 - 1, in Game 7. The Astros score five times off Yu Darvish in the first two innings, with World Series MVP George Springer contributing the big blows with a double and two-run homer. Charlie Morton pitches the last four innings without allowing a run to receive credit for the win.

2019: The Mets hire former star player Carlos Beltran as their next manager. He will never get to manage the team however, being forced to resign due to his role in the 2017 Astros sign-stealing scandal.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Heinie_Schuble
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schubhe01.shtml
Heinie Schuble 1929, 1932-1935.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Pat_Mullin
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mullipa01.shtml
Pat Mullin 1940-1941, 1946-1953, scout 1957-1963, coach 1963-1966.
Last Tigers player to wear Number 6 before Kaline.
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https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/willied01.shtml
Eddie Williams 1996.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/foleyja01.shtml
Jason Foley 2021-present.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rublear01.shtml
Art Ruble 1927.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mclaupa01.shtml
Pat McLaughlin 1937, 1945.

Baseball Reference
 
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Bless You Boys Tigers Blog Podcast 60: The Washington Nationals are World Series champs. 70 minutes.
The BYB staff talks baseball from a Tigers perspective.

We?re back after our postseason break to take a brief look back at the postseason, and a much more in depth reflection on the World Series, the Washington Nationals? incredible October run, the Astros and their self-inflicted wounds, and the coming out party for Juan Soto and to an extent, Stephen Strasburg.

-General impressions from the World Series

-The rise of Juan Soto

-The Trea Turner play and other strange moments

-Max Scherzer and Anibal Sanchez get their ring, produce all the feels (shoutout to Fernando Rodney too!)

-How the Astros may have lost the World Series before it began

-Not a great show from the umpires

-The Tigers fired Doug Mientkiewicz as Toledo Mud Hens? manager
 
November 2 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: Michigan, coached by Fielding Yost, beats Carlisle, coached by Pop Warner, 22-0 before 8,000 fans at Bennett Park.
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1910: Ty Cobb and other Tigers play in the first of several exhibition games against Latin and black ballplayers in Cuba. Though reports of the games are hard to confirm, Cobb performed well, though he was thrown out attempting to steal by black catcher Bruce Petway, one of the best negro league players of the era.
Cobb also faces John ?Pop? Lloyd, a talented shortstop known at the time as ?The Black Honus Wagner.?

1930: Ernest Barnard completes his three-year contract as president of the American League. Among Barnard's innovations have been the establishment of an umpire's school and the recodifying of the rule book. He also led the effort to eliminate the sacrifice fly scoring rule: he considers that with inflated batting averages resulting from the livelier baseball, the batter no longer needs the benefit of not being charged a time at bat when his fly ball advances a runner.

1937: American League batting champ Charlie Gehringer of the Detroit Tigers is named Most Valuable Player, receiving 78 out of a possible 80 points. The New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio is a close second, four points behind, while Gehringer's teammate Hank Greenberg, who had 183 RBI, is a distant third. Gehringer also becomes the third Detroit player in four years to be named MVP.
A product of Fowlerville, MI and the University of Michigan, the "Mechanical Man" hit .371 with a .458 OBP and 133 runs scored that season.
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1938: Boston Red Sox first baseman Jimmie Foxx is voted Most Valuable Player of the American League for the third time, with Yankees catcher Bill Dickey second in the voting.

1942: The Philadelphia Athletics drafted Johnny Welaj from the Detroit Tigers in the 1942 rule 5 draft.

1951: The National Labor Relations Board files unfair labor practices charges against the Cleveland Indians on a claim the club fired a ticket seller at the union's request. This is the first case against baseball under the Taft-Hartley Act.

1960: New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris defeats teammate Mickey Mantle for the American League MVP Award, 225-222, the second-closest vote ever, behind Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams' race in 1947.

1964: CBS becomes the first corporate owner of a major league team, buying eighty percent of the New York Yankees for $11,200,000.

1972: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton is unanimously selected the National League Cy Young Award winner. Carlton won 27 games for the Phillies, who as a team won only 57 games.

1972: Former Boston Red Sox shortstop Freddy Parent dies at the age of 96. Parent had been the last surviving player from the first modern World Series between Boston and Pittsburgh in 1903.

1974: The Atlanta Braves trade Hank Aaron to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave May and a minor league pitcher. Aaron will finish his major league career in Milwaukee, where he started it with the Braves in 1954.

1976: San Diego Padres pitcher Randy Jones beats out Jerry Koosman of the New York Mets for the National League Cy Young Award. Jones led the league with 315 innings pitched and posted a 22-14 record for the fifth-place Padres.

1977: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton outpoints Tommy John of the Dodgers to win his second Cy Young Award. Carlton led the National League with 23 wins and posted a 2.64 ERA.

1978: Jim Slaton of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1983: Pitcher John Denny wins the National League Cy Young Award. Denny posted a 19-6 record with a 2.37 ERA for the National League Champion Philadelphia Phillies.

1992: Lou Whitaker of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1995: Franklin Stubbs of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1995: The New York Yankees name Joe Torre their manager, replacing the recently departed Buck Showalter. Torre, a former St. Louis Cardinals' star and National League batting champion, will guide the Yankees to four World Championships in his first five years with the team.

1999: In a ten-player megatrade, the Texas Rangers send outfielder Juan Gonzalez, pitcher Danny Patterson and catcher Gregg Zaun to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for Pitchers Justin Thompson, Alan Webb and Francisco Cordero, OF Gabe Kapler, C Bill Haselman, and infielder Frank Catalanotto.

2000: The Detroit Tigers released Hideo Nomo.

2006: Troy Percival of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2010: Jhonny Peralta of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2011: William Bergolla of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Enrique Gonzalez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: David Purcey of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Jeff Salazar of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Omir Santos of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Max St. Pierre of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Scott Thorman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2012: Preparing their move to the American League in 2013, the Houston Astros go back to the future, unveiling a new uniform design and a logo based on the team colors in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They also bring back Orbit, their long-time spaceman mascot who had been discarded in favor of a jackrabbit character who never won much love from fans.

2015: Alex Avila of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Rajai Davis of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Tom Gorzelanny of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Alfredo Simon of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: Randy Wolf of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2016: The Cubs win their first World Series title in 108 years by defeating Cleveland, 8 - 7, in Game 7, making up a three games to one deficit in the process as it's a great day for teams with ursine names. It's an epic ballgame worthy of the high stakes, as Dexter Fowler hits a lead-off homer off Corey Kluber, but the Indians manage to tie the score in the 3rd. In the 4th, the Cubs score twice, including one run on a daring rush to the plate by Kris Bryant on a fly ball to CF Rajai Davis that travels perhaps 150 feet. Javier Baez and David Ross also homer for Chicago as the Cubs build up their lead, but Cleveland scores two runs on a wild pitch by Jon Lester in the 6th, then trailing 6 - 4 with two outs in the 8th, Davis homers off Aroldis Chapman to tie the game again. Play is stopped briefly by rain after the 9th inning, but in the 10th, Ben Zobrist, who is named World Series MVP, puts the Cubs ahead with a double and Miguel Montero adds an insurance run with a single, a run which proves important as the Indians manage to score once in the bottom of the 10th before Mike Montgomery retires Michael Martinez on a grounder to third to clinch the title.
Cleveland now takes over as owners of the longest championship drought in the majors, their last title having come in 1948.

2017: Anibal Sanchez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: The Seattle Mariners selected Andrew Romine off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2018: Phillippe Aumont of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Johnny Barbato of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Hunter Cervenka of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Kevin Chapman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Chad Huffman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Josh Thole of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: The Detroit Tigers selected Brandon Dixon off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds.
2018: The Detroit Tigers selected Jose Fernandez off waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays.

2020: Tim Adleman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Dario Agrazal of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Sandy Baez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Jorge Bonifacio of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Dawel Lugo of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Dereck Rodriguez of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2020: Frank Schwindel of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chief_Hogsett
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hogsech01.shtml
Chief Hogsett 1929-1936, 1944.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/betemwi01.shtml?redir
Wilson Betemit 2011.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/merceme01.shtml
Melvin Mercedes 2014.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bailebi01.shtml
Bill Bailey 1918.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Joe_Ginsberg
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/ginsbjo01.shtml
Joe Ginsburg 1948, 1950-1953. Caught the first of Virgil Trucks' two no-hitters in 1952.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sulliru01.shtml
Russ Sullivan 1951-1953.

Baseball Reference
 
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THE SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

The Saturday Survey offers another way for readers to weigh in on a relevant topic. So here is a poll to gauge the pulse of our baseball-lovin? peeps.

As always, we welcome your comments, so please vote and then submit your reasons ( 4 sentences max!) for how you voted in the usual comment box. Don?t forget to come back later and view the results!

In the past 3 years, we?ve watched World Series teams loaded with former Tigers. Eleven so far have won their championship rings with other teams.

Please participate in the survery to help us determine why it just didn?t work out in Detroit.

To what do you attribute the failure of the Tigers to win a World Series during their decade of dominance?

Just a coincidence.

Weakness in the roster.

Better opponents.

Poor Front Office decisions.

Jim Leyland and Brad Ausmus.

Lack of team chemistry/leadership.

Something else (explain).

Two or more (of #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 and/or #6).

All of the above (#1 - #6).

Vote.
 
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