July 31 in Tigers and mlb history:
1897: St. Louis hurler John Grimes establishes a major league record which still stands today by hitting six batters in a nine-inning game..
1912: A day after the Braves went 14 innings to beat St. Louis, they go 19 innings with the Pirates. Lefty Otto Hess goes all the way for Boston. The Pirates score three in the 19th, and the Braves come back with 2, losing, 7 - 6. Honus Wagner, who earlier stole home, drives in the final run for Pittsburgh. Wagner, at 38, is the oldest player in the National League.
1912: Ty Cobb sets a major league record with his 68th hit of the month.
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1914: Red Sox owner Joe Lannin buys the Providence Grays (IL) and Melrose Park from the Detroit Tigers for $75,000. Detroit gets to pick one player from the Providence roster and they select P Red Oldham, overlooking Carl Mays. Detroit then purchases the Buffalo (IL) team.
1916: Babe Ruth fires a two-hitter, one each by Ty Cobb and George Burns, for a 6 - 0 win for the Red Sox over the Tigers.
1929: Babe Ruth hits a fungo 447 feet in an unofficial test, beating all trial competition records.
1935: Two American League pitchers each hit two home runs in a game. Wes Ferrell clouts a couple against Buck Newsom of the Browns and knocks in four runs in a 6 - 4 win for Boston. Mel Harder hits two for Cleveland but loses, 6 - 4, to the White Sox. No other hurlers will hit two homers this season.
1936: Led by Lou Gehrig, who clouts his 33rd homer, the Yankees down the Indians, 11 - 7, at League Park. The loss snaps the Tribe's five-game win streak, and leaves the Yankees 8 1/2 games ahead of Cleveland. Gehrig and Red Rolfe clout homers in the 5th to chase Mel Harder, but the Indians answer with three doubles by Earl Averill and a homer by Hal Trosky. Bump Hadley, with relief from Johnny Murphy, hangs on for his 9th win.
1936: Behind Lefty Grove and Jimmie Foxx, the visiting Red Sox top the White Sox, 7 - 3. Grove wins his 13th on seven hits, while Double X bangs his 30th homer, a triple and double.
1942: Charlie Gehringer?s final career home run is a pinch-hit homer in the bottom of the ninth. Detroit loses, though; the homer run turns a 7-4 deficit into a 7-6 loss.
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1954: Using a borrowed bat, Dodger killer Joe Adcock hits 4 homers and a double for 18 total bases in the Braves' 15 - 7 victory at Ebbets Field. The 18 total bases is a major-league mark and, combined with the seven total bases from the day before, gives him a two-day tally of 25. The two-game total ties him with Ty Cobb.
1959: Earl Wilson, the first black pitcher to play for the Red Sox, hurls 3 2/3 innings, walking nine and leaves the game with a 4 - 0 lead.
1959: Al Kaline hits the first of two career inside the park home runs in a loss to the red sox.
1961: The 2nd All-Star Game of 1961 ends in a 1 - 1 tie at Fenway Park. Rocky Colavito homers for the American League run. Heavy rains end the exhibition after nine innings.
1962: The National League rejects Commissioner Ford Frick's proposal for interleague play in 1963.
1963: The Detroit Tigers released Joe Grzenda.
1968: Detroit's Dick McAuliffe becomes the only player in major league history to score all four runs in a 4 - 0 shutout against Washington. McAuliffe hits two homers, a double and a single in Denny McLain's 21st win of his 31-6 season.
1972: The Detroit Tigers released Ron Perranoski.
1972: White Sox slugger Dick Allen becomes the seventh major leaguer to hit two inside-the-park home runs in one game. The homers pace the White Sox over the Twins, 8 - 1.
1973: The Tigers win a pair from the Brewers, 6 - 5 and 9 - 4, and end Dave May's American League season-best hitting streak at 24 games.
1974: Ron Cey drives in eight runs to lead the host Dodgers to a 15 - 4 victory over the Padres.
1981: The fifty-day old baseball strike is settled as owners and players agree on a pooling system for free agent compensation. The All-Star game will mark the end of baseball's first-ever mid-season work stoppage.
1983: Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell and Walter Alston are inducted into the Hall of Fame, bringing the total number of Hall of Famers to 184.
1984: Game 1: Tigers 5 - Indians 1. The Tigers score 5 runs in the 2nd inning. Doug Baker hits a bases loaded triple, then gets demoted to make room for Alan Trammell, returning from injury.
1992: The Detroit Tigers signed Jeff Robinson as a free agent.
1994: Steve Carlton, Leo Durocher and Phil Rizzuto are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.
1994: Jeff Bagwell's 36th homer is the only Astro score in their 7 - 1 loss, but he ties a club record with 29 RBIs for the month. His 105 ribbies through July is the 4th-best in National League history.
1995: The Detroit Tigers traded David Wells to the Cincinnati Reds for a player to be named later, Dave Tuttle (minors) and C.J. Nitkowski. The Cincinnati Reds sent Mark Lewis (November 16, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
1996: The Dodgers obtain OF Chad Curtis from the Tigers in exchange for pitchers Joey Eischen and John Cummings. Curtis will lead off in place of the cancer-stricken Brett Butler.
1996: The New York Yankees traded Matt Drews (minors) and Ruben Sierra to the Detroit Tigers for Cecil Fielder.
1996: The California Angels traded Damion Easley to the Detroit Tigers for Greg Gohr.
1999: The Boston Red Sox traded Mike Maroth to the Detroit Tigers for Bryce Florie.
1999: The Florida Marlins traded Brandon Villafuerte to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Drumright (minors).
2000: The Detroit Tigers released Luis Polonia.
2005: Detroit sends Kyle Farnsworth to Atlanta for Roman Colon and Zach Miner.
2006: The Pittsburgh Pirates traded Sean Casey to the Detroit Tigers for Brian Rogers.
2009: The Detroit Tigers traded Luke French and Mauricio Robles to the Seattle Mariners for Jarrod Washburn.
2011: Two of the best pitchers in the American League face each other, as Detroit's Justin Verlander faces off against Los Angeles' Jered Weaver, both looking for their 15th win. Verlander takes a no-hitter into the 8th inning, while Weaver loses his cool after Carlos Guillen hits a 7th-inning homer; he throws a pitch over the head of the next batter, Alex Avila, and is ejected. Verlander and the Tigers prevail, 3 - 2.
2014: It is the Tigers who engineer the biggest blockbuster deal, however, as they pull CF Austin Jackson from their game with the White Sox in the middle of the 7th inning because he has just been traded to Seattle. They receive IF Nick Franklin in return, but immediately package him along with P Drew Smyly and SS prospect Willie Adames to Tampa Bay to reel in former Cy Young Award winner David Price.
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2015: The Detroit Tigers traded Yoenis Cespedes to the New York Mets for Luis Cessa and Michael Fulmer.
2016: Miguel Cabrera with his 2nd home run and 4 RBI and career RBI 1,511 passes the great Mickey Mantle for 54th all-time.
2017: The Detroit Tigers traded Alex Avila and Justin Wilson to the Chicago Cubs for Isaac Paredes (minors), Jeimer Candelario and cash.
2018: The Detroit Tigers traded Kyle Dowdy and Leonys Martin to the Cleveland Indians for Willi Castro (minors).
2019: The Detroit Tigers traded Nicholas Castellanos and cash to the Chicago Cubs for Alex Lange (minors) and Paul Richan (minors).
2019: The Detroit Tigers traded Shane Greene to the Atlanta Braves for Joey Wentz (minors) and Travis Demeritte.
Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays:
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Joe Sugden 1912.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Hitchcock
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Billy Hitchcock 1942, 1946, 1953, coach 1955-1960, manager 1960.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Aber
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Al Aber 1953-1957.
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Harry Malmberg 1955.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Terry_Fox
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Terry Fox 1961-1966.
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Howard Bailey 1981-1983.
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Gabe Kapler 1998-1999.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Andy_Van_Hekken
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Andy Van Hekken 2002.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Leon_Durham
Leon Durham coach 2017.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Pierce
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Billy Pierce 1945, 1948.
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