July 26 in Tigers and mlb history:
1908: The Detroit Tigers selected George Winter off waivers from the Boston Red Sox.
1910: The Detroit Tigers purchased Art Loudell from Waco (Texas).
1911: Christy Mathewson wins his 21st straight game against the Cincinnati Reds, 5 - 3. He replaces Hooks Wiltse in the 8th and his single in the 9th scores a run to help win it.
1916: Tigers favorite Harry Heilmann gets an appreciative hand from the crowd for having dived into the Detroit River last night to save a woman from drowning.
1927: Max Carey, who played 17 years with the Pirates before he was dismissed, returns to Pittsburgh in a Robins uniform and makes a clean steal of home in the 6th inning. It is his 33rd and last steal of home, a National League record.
1928: Ty Cobb goes 2-for-5 with a double in his final career start, for the Athletics at Comiskey Park.
1933: Yankee Lou Gehrig is thrown out of the second game in a doubleheader against Boston. Had it been the first game, his consecutive game streak would have ended.
1933: The 61-game hitting streak of the San Francisco Seals' 18-year-old rookie, Joe DiMaggio, is stopped by Ed Walsh, Jr. of the Oakland Oaks.
1933: Rogers Hornsby swaps St. Louis uniforms, leaving the Cards to manage the Browns.
1936: The Tigers strand 14 runners and lose to Boston and Wes Ferrell, 10 - 3. The Tigers have 13 hits, including those of Goose Goslin who goes 3 for 3. Jimmie Foxx hits his 28th homer of the year in Boston's five-run 8th, then hits another in the 9th, to pin the loss on Elden Auker.
1937: Mickey Cochrane resumes command of the Detroit Tigers as a bench manager.
1941: Baseball Immortals Together Again - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker fondly reflect on their days in the big leagues.
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1948: Babe Ruth makes his final public appearance at the New York premiere of The Babe Ruth Story. The Sultan of Swat will die three weeks later.
1957: Jim Bunning of the Tigers 2-hits New York 3 - 2, but one of the hits is Mickey Mantle's 200th homer of his career. Al Kaline knocks in the two Tigers runs.
1960: The Detroit Tigers purchased Harry Chiti from the Kansas City Athletics.
1960: The Detroit Tigers traded Rocky Bridges and Red Wilson to the Cleveland Indians for Hank Foiles.
1962: In New York pitcher Gene Conley and infielder Pumpsie Green of the Red Sox mysteriously disappear after a 13 - 3 loss to the Yankees.
They leave the team bus in traffic to use a rest room and fail to return.
Conley decides he wants to fly to Israel, and goes to the airport, but is refused a ticket because he does not have a visa. Conley was the loser in the game, pitching 2 2/3 inning, and walking in two of the eight earned runs allowed. Pumpsie did not play.
1962: Warren Spahn hits his 31st career homer, off Craig Anderson, setting a National League record for pitchers, in a 6 - 1 Braves win.
1968: The Detroit Tigers traded Dennis Ribant to the Chicago White Sox for Don McMahon.
1968: Leaving with a strained knee after five innings of pitching, Earl Wilson of the Tigers earns a 4 - 1 win in the opener of three games with the Orioles. Rookie Daryl Patterson provides spectacular relief coming in with the bases loaded in the 6th and striking out the side. Boog Powell's homer in the 8th is the only tally for the O's. The win increases the Tigers' lead over the O's to 6 1/2 games.
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1970: Johnny Bench of the Reds and Orlando Cepeda of the Braves each collect three consecutive homers and seven RBIs during respective games with the Cardinals and Cubs. Bench hits all three off Steve Carlton and adds a single in the Reds' 12 - 5 win over the Cards. Bench now has 33 homers and 95 RBIs to lead the majors.
1974: The Detroit Tigers signed Sheldon Burnside as an amateur free agent.
1977: Jack Morris pitches 4 innings of relief in his major league debut.
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1987: Catfish Hunter, Billy Williams, and Ray Dandridge are inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
1992: Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter, reaching that mark for a record 23rd year in a row. He subdues the Orioles, 6 - 2.
1997: The Detroit Tigers signed Marcus Jensen as a free agent.
1998: Don Sutton and Larry Doby are inducted into the Hall of Fame along with Lee MacPhail, George Davis and Joe Rogan. MacPhail joins his dad, Larry MacPhail, to become the first father and son duo to be enshrined at Cooperstown, NY.
2009: Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice and Joe Gordon are inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Cooperstown, NY. Gordon is the first player to be voted in by the Veterans Committee since its rules were reformulated following the controversial election of Bill Mazeroski in 2001.
2012: The Miami Marlins sent Brad Davis to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.
2014: The Hall of Fame announces a change in voting rules, as players will now be able to stay on the BBWAA ballot for a maximum of 10 and not 15 years, as long as they meet the minimum 5% threshold. The move is designed to prevent the ballot from becoming overly crowded because of players tainted by steroids staying on the ballot for years on end with no realistic chance of election, but drawing votes away from more legitimate candidates. However, a number of inductees with an untainted record have had to wait over 10 years for election in recent years, such as Jim Rice, Bert Blyleven or Andre Dawson, making it likely that the rule change will have the effect of also squeezing out some worthy candidates.
2015: Four players, all elected by the BBWAA, are inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY as the Class of 2015: pitchers Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz, all elected on their first presence on the ballot, and 2B Craig Biggio.
2020: It's only the end of the opening week-end of this year's delayed major league season, but already there is no unbeaten - or winless - team left. For the first time since 1954, when there were only half as many teams, no team has started the year 3-0.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Larry_Woodall
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/woodala01.shtml
Larry Woodall 1920-1929.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jimmy_Bloodworth
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bloodji01.shtml
Jimmy Bloodworth 1942-1943, 1946.
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Milt Welch 1945.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/knoxjo01.shtml
John Knox 1972-1975.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reedjo01.shtml
Jody Reed 1997.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Joaquín_Benoit
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Joaquin Benoit 2011-2013.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lathech01.shtml
Chick Lathers 1910-1911.
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