July 25 in Tigers and mlb history:
1905: Christy Mathewson wins his 16th, defeating the Reds, 7 - 2. The game is close until Frank Bowerman belts a three-run homer in the 8th for the Giants. Cincy fans get a scare in the 1st inning when Reds catcher Ed Phelps is knocked unconscious when he is struck by the back swing of Sam Mertes. Phelps is rushed to a hospital.
1908: With the Highlanders leading the Tigers 3 - 2 in the 8th, Detroit scores two runs on a Ty Cobb triple. With lefty Claude Rossman the next hitter, New York's new manager Kid Elberfeld moves righty pitcher Jack Chesbro to 1B and replaces him with first baseman Hal Chase. Chase allows a fly ball that scores Cobb, then goes back to 1B and Chesbro resumes his spot on the mound. It is Chase's only pitching appearance as the Tigers win, 5 - 3.
1916: Tigers' Harry Heilmann dives into the Detroit River to save three people from drowning.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAQ40PUW...jpg&name=small
1916: Tris Speaker has three hits against lefty Babe Ruth to finally drive him from the mound in the 8th inning. Reliever Rube Foster wild pitches home a run and Braggo Roth's second double gives Cleveland a 5 - 3 lead. The Tribe wins it, 5 - 4, with Ruth the loser. Ruth is 2 for 4 with a two-run single.
1918: Walter Johnson gives up one hit (a triple by George Sisler) in the first 11 innings of a 15-inning, four-hit, 1 - 0 win.
1921: Max Carey flags down 11 flies in centerfield in the Pirates' 6 - 3 win over New York, tying three others for the National League record.
1921: The Detroit Tigers released Eddie Ainsmith.
1930: The A's pull off triple steals twice in one game against the Indians. Al Simmons, Bing Miller, and Dib Williams are the base thieves in the 1st inning, and Mickey Cochrane, Simmons, and Jimmie Foxx steal together in the 4th.
1941: Forty-one-year-old Lefty Grove wins his 300th game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 10 - 6, before a Fenway Park Ladies Day crowd of 16,000. Though he will make six more starts, this will be Grove's last career win.
1944: The Detroit Tigers released Charlie Metro.
1948: In the tight four-team American League race, Joe DiMaggio leads the Yanks to a sweep over the White Sox, 5 - 3 and 7 - 3. Joe D is 3 for 3 in the first game to back Ed Lopat, then adds a triple and two doubles in the nitecap. His three RBIs in game two gives him an AL-high 86.
In Boston, the other DiMaggio, Dom, makes two spectacular catches against the Indians as well as homering off Satchel Paige. The Red Sox beat Cleveland, 3 - 0, for their 15th win in 16 games. Joe Dobson tops Steve Gromek to leave the Sox percentage points ahead of the 2nd-place A's. Cleveland and New York are each 1 1/2 games back. With the Braves in 1st place, it is the first time since 1916 that both Boston teams are at the top spot.
1951: Ouch!! Willie Mays's oft-recalled bare-handed grab of left-handed Rocky Nelson's screaming opposite field line drive takes place in Forbes Field in the 1st inning of a 5 - 4 Giant loss to Pittsburgh. Mays runs to the left-center corner of the bullpen (also known as Greenberg Gardens, or Kiner's Corner), about 410 feet from the plate. At the last minute, the wind gets a hold of Nelson's slicing shot and starts pushing it back towards right. Mays looks up and locates the ball but too late to adjust. As he will recall on June 3, 1957, after robbing Roberto Clemente on a shot to almost the same spot, "I couldn't get my glove around. So I just stuck my bare hand up and the ball stuck."
1959: Against Detroit, Yankee first baseman Moose Skowron reaching for a wide throw, collides with Tiger runner Coot Veal. Skowron's arm is broken in two places and he is out for the rest of the season. Marv Throneberry will fill in at 1B. The Yanks win, 9 - 8, when Yogi Berra hits a home run in the 9th with Mickey Mantle on. Prior to the Yogi home run, Bobby Richardson and Fritz Brickell hit their first major league homers for New York. Berra's home run erases five Yankee errors, three by 3B Hector Lopez.
1961: With his four-home run performance in the doubleheader sweep over the White Sox, Roger Maris moves 25 games ahead of Babe Ruth's 1927 pace. The Yankee slugger now has 40 for the year and will finish the season with a record 61 round trippers.
Mickey Mantle also homers off Frank Baumann in the first game. He ends the day with 38 home runs.
1962: Stan Musial becomes the National League's all-time leader in runs batted in with 1,862, driving in both of the Cardinal runs in a 5 - 2 loss to the Dodgers.
1966: Red Sox great Ted Williams is inducted into the Hall of Fame. In his induction speech the "Spendid Splinter" makes a strong appeal for the inclusion of Negro League stars at Cooperstown.
1967: Race riots in Detroit force postponement of a Tigers-Orioles game. The games scheduled for the 26th and 27th are shifted to Baltimore.
1991: A jersey once worn by Yankees Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle is sold for $71,500 at an auction in Manhattan. A Ty Cobb tobacco card brings in $62,700.
1993: Detroit P Mike Moore hurls a one-hit, 3 - 0 shutout over the Royals. Wally Joyner's 2nd-inning single is the only Kansas City safety.
1998: Former Yankees P Jim Bouton makes his first appearance at Yankee Stadium since 1970 at Oldtimers Day and is greeted with cheers all around. Bouton had been persona non grata in New York since writing Ball Four, which broke a long-standing taboo in sports by taking readers into the locker room and revealing players' extracurricular escapades. The Yanks invited the Bulldog back after his son wrote a Father's Day article in the New York Times suggesting it.
1999: The Tigers defeat the Red Sox, 9 - 1, as 1B Tony Clark homers from both sides of the plate for the second time this season.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFlX9EMXkAM8WF1?format=jpg&name=360x360
1999: Nolan Ryan, Robin Yount, George Brett, Nestor Chylak, Orlando Cepeda, Frank Selee and 'Smokey' Joe Williams are enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
2002: The Los Angeles Dodgers traded Hiram Bocachica to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later and Tom Farmer (minors). The Detroit Tigers sent Jason Frasor (September 18, 2002) to the Los Angeles Dodgers to complete the trade.
2010: The Detroit Tigers released Billy Buckner.
2010: In a ceremony held in Cooperstown, NY, outfielder Andre Dawson, manager Whitey Herzog and umpire Doug Harvey are inducted into the Hall of Fame. During his acceptance speech, Dawson urges the election of former teammates Tim Raines and Lee Smith.
2016: In the 20th season of interleague play since its launch in 1997, the last remaining possible match-up occurs, as the Padres visit Toronto for the first time ever, meaning that every team has now visited every other major league team at least once. The Jays win the game, 4 - 2, behind Aaron Sanchez, who records his 10th straight win, the first Blue Jays pitcher to do so since Roy Halladay in 2003. Alex Dickerson hits a two-run homer for the Padres in the 9th, extending the team's record streak of games with at least one home run to 23.
2017: Miguel Cabrera gets his 2,600th career hit.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFrwdNOXYAQTCVH?format=jpg&name=medium
2019: The Detroit Tigers signed Jake Thompson as a free agent.
2020: The Detroit Tigers selected Carson Fulmer off waivers from the Chicago White Sox.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Larry_Sherry
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sherrla01.shtml
Larry Sherry 1964-1967.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/scherfr01.shtml
Fred Scherman 1969-1973.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mick_Kelleher
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellemi02.shtml
Mick Kelleher 1981-1982, coach 2003-2005.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Torey_Lovullo
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lovulto01.shtml
Torey Lovullo 1988-1989.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bautijo01.shtml
Jose Bautista 1997.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/preslal01.shtml
Alex Presley 2016-2017.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Norm_McRae
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcraeno01.shtml
Norm McRae 1969-1970.
Baseball Reference
