February 14 in Tigers and mlb history:
1887: The National Colored Base Ball League, the first attempt at a professional Negro League, is organized at a meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Eight clubs are represented: Lord Baltimores (Baltimore), Resolutes (Boston, MA), Browns (Cincinnati, OH), Falls City (Louisville, KY), Gorhams (New York, NY), Pythians (Philadelphia, PA), Keystones (Pittsburgh, PA) and Capital City Club (Washington, DC). Two weeks after being launched, the league will fail from lack of attendance.
1911: A cork-centered ball is introduced, and the number of .300 hitters will jump from eight in 1910 to 27 this season in the American League. The league's earned run average will go from from 2.53 to 3.34.
1911: The Philadelphia Phillies come up with an idea for a new style of uniform - white flannels with thin vertical stripes -, an innovation that predates the famed New York Yankees pinstripes by four years.
1917: Dave Fultz, president of the Players Fraternity, calls off a strike set to begin within the week. One of demands of the union is to abolish the ten-day clause, in which a team ceases to pay an injured player after he has been out of action for ten days. Organized Baseball officially severs relations with the union, leaving the players without representation.
1928: The MLB Advisory Council agrees to allot $50,000 to develop a national championship program for amateur players. The program will be run by the American Legion.
1934: The Cleveland Indians sign former Washington Senators 19-year outfielder Sam Rice to a contract for the upcoming season. He will bat .293 in 335 at-bats for the Indians, but will fall 13 hits shy of the 3,000 mark before retiring. Rice will win election to the Hall of Fame in 1963.
1948: Right-handed pitcher Mordecai Brown dies in Terre Haute, Indiana, at the age of 71. Despite losing part of two fingers on his right hand in a childhoods farm accident, Brown won 239 games during a 14-year Hall of Fame career.
1952: The St. Louis Browns pick up 1B Dick Kryhoski and Ps Gene Bearden and Bob Cain from the Detroit Tigers. Detroit receives C Matt Batts, OF Cliff Mapes, P Dick Littlefield, and 1B Ben Taylor.
1957: Some 10 years after Jackie Robinson broke the major league color barrier, the Georgia Senate unanimously approves a bill prohibiting blacks from playing baseball with white players, except at religious gatherings. The bill was put forth by Senator Leon Butts. At the time, Georgia does not have a major league team, but does have several minor league teams.
1984: The Detroit Tigers signed Rod Allen as a free agent.
1985: The Detroit Tigers signed Ken Hill as an amateur free agent.
1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Lance Parrish as a free agent.
1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Juan Samuel as a free agent.
2001: According to the Detroit Free Press, Major League Baseball is informing umpires to remove pitchers from the game, without warning, who deliberately throw a beanball at a batter's head. The crackdown, according to officials, is a clarification and reinforcement of an existing rule.
2002: The Detroit Tigers sign Dmitri Young, who hit .302 with 21 home runs for Cincinnati last season, to a four-year contract. Detroit traded outfielder Juan Encarnaci?n and minor leaguer Luis Pineda in December to acquire the 1B/OF.
2003: A good day to remember an act of love from a Tiger to a Valentine: In 2003, Dave Wickersham wrote to umpire Bill Valentine absolving him of blame for an ejection that cost Wickersham his only 20-win season.
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Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sanchal01.shtml
Alejandro Sanchez 1985.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Bill Lelivelt 1909-1910.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jack_Coffey
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/coffeja01.shtml
Jack Coffey 1918.
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Hal Erickson 1953.
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