August 11 in Tigers and mlb history:
1905: Jay Clarke returned to the Cleveland Naps by the Detroit Tigers as part of earlier loan.
1912: In an 8 - 3 win over the Highlanders? Cleveland's Joe Jackson becomes the second American League player to steal home twice in a game. He steals home in the 1st inning? and then in the 7th? he steals second base? third? and home.
1913: The Detroit Tigers purchased Lefty Williams from Nashville (Southern) for $3,500.
1914: After missing 6 weeks? first with broken ribs? then a broken thumb? Ty Cobb signs a new 3-year contract and returns to the lineup. He and Sam Crawford had been offered double their salaries to jump to the Feds. Cobb will get into just 97 games? but he will win another batting crown at .368. Under existing rules his 345 at bats are enough to qualify.
1919: Cleveland's Tris Speaker ties an American League record? scoring 5 runs in a 15 - 9 win at New York.
1923: The Tigers beat the Yanks? 10 - 4? in a series that features the top two hitters in the American League. Babe Ruth goes 3-for-8 against the Tigers? while Harry Heilmann is 5-for-10 against the Yanks. The two are neck and neck at .390 for the year. Heilmann raises his average to .394 and will finish at .403 to win the batting crown.
After the game? AL President Ban Johnson rules that Babe Ruth must give up his Sam Crawford bat? made for him by the future Hall of Famer. The bat is "four pieces of seasoned wood? carefully glued together." On August 21? Johnson rules that only one-piece bats will be allowed? a rule that also affects Ken Williams? who is using a plugged bat.
1928: Carl Hubbell's first major league victory is a 4 - 0 shutout of the Phils. He'll be 10 - 6 down the stretch and will pitch 16 years with the Giants.
1929: Babe Ruth hits his 500th career home run, this one off the Indians' Willis Hudlin. Second place all-time is currently held by Cy Williams with 237 homers.
1929: Tigers win on walk-off inside-the-park HR by Roy Johnson in 11th and beat the philadelphia athletics 9 - 8.
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1935: Charlie Gehringer extends his streak of consecutive games played to 577, his second career streak of more than 500 straight games. It's a franchise record that still stands: no other Tiger has ever reached 500 consecutive games.
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1935: The East-West Game is held at Comiskey Park. Mule Suttles' 3-run homer off Sug Cornelius in the bottom of the 11th wins it, 11 - 8, for the West. Josh Gibson goes 4 for 5 with 3 runs.
Eddie Rose of the New Orleans Pelicans hits a high fly ball against the Birmingham Barons which strikes a pigeon, killing it instantly. Rose is credited with a hit.
1942: At Cleveland? in the first game of a twi-nighter? Indian P Al Milnar has a no-hitter until Doc Cramer singles with 2 out in the 9th. But the duel with Detroit's Tommy Bridges ends in a 14-inning scoreless tie because the rules state the game cannot be continued under the lights.
1945: Hank Greenberg at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium takes a swing in the Tigers 5 - 4 win over the red sox.
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1946: Stan Musial has eight hits in nine at-bats in a doubleheader sweep for the Cardinals against the Reds.
1949: The Cleveland Indians traded Jim Wilson to the Detroit Tigers for players to be named later. The Detroit Tigers sent Lum Harris (October 1, 1949), Anse Moore (October 1, 1949) and (minors) (October 1, 1949) to the Cleveland Indians to complete the trade.
1951: Behind the four-hit pitching of Early Wynn? the Indians defeat the White Sox, 2 - 1, in front of a Ladies Night crowd of 70?119. Wynn's homer in the 7th breaks the tie created by 2nd-inning homers by Eddie Robinson and Al Rosen. It's the Tribe's 9th straight win to stay deadlocked with the Yankees for first place. Loser Joe Dobson? who has beaten Wynn twice this year? gives up just 6 hits.
1955: Ted Williams hits a single off Bob Turley of the Yankees for his 2,000th career hit.
1956: Mickey Mantle hits his 40th homer? off Hal Brown? as the Yankees clip the Orioles? 10 - 5. Mantle is the first Yankee since Joe DiMaggio? in 1937? to hit 40 homers.
1957: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants and Phils trade shutouts. New York takes the opener, 5 - 0, behind Curt Barclay's three-hitter. Danny O'Connell hits a three-run homer off Harvey Haddix, and Willie Mays bangs two triples. Willie has 15 so far and will top the 20 mark this year in doubles, triples and homers, just the 4th player in history to accomplish that. George Brett will join the list in 1979, the last 20th century player to do so. Thereafter, Curtis Granderson and Jimmy Rollins add this to their baseball resume.
1961: Warren Spahn of the Braves beats the Cubs, 2 - 1, for his 300th career win.
1964: Hank Aaron passes Joe DiMaggio with his 362nd career home run in the Braves' 9 - 6 win over the Colt .45's.
Hank is less than half way to his final total of 755.
1968: Satchel Paige? 62 years or so old? and needing 158 days on a ML payroll to qualify for a pension? is signed by the Braves. He will not pitch a regular-season game for Atlanta and will become a coach on September 30th and stay for another year.
1968: Gates Brown wins the opener for the Tigers by poling a pinch homer - one of two pinch homers the Tigers hit - in the 14th to beat the Red Sox 5 - 4. In the nightcap? he singles home the winning run as the Tigers score 4 in the 9th to win 6 - 5.
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1970: Jim Bunning of the Phillies achieves his 100th National League win to go with his 100 victories in the American League with the Tigers to become the first pitcher since Cy Young to accomplish the feat.
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1984: Jack Morris gets his 15th win, in Kansas City as the Tigers win 9 - 5 over the royals.
1992: The Tigers beat the Yankees 5-1. Frank Tanana got the win, allowing 1 run over 7.2 innings. Rico Brogna hits the 1st home run of his Major League career, and only HR with the Tigers. Lou Whitaker also went yard.
1993: Tigers OF Dan Gladden hits a grand slam in Detroit's 15 - 5 win over the Orioles. Gladden also hit a grand slam in yesterday's game against Baltimore? making him the 14th player in history to do so in consecutive games.
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1994: Tigers play their last game of a strike-shortened season in a loss to the brewers.
2003: The Royals beat the Yankees? 12 - 9? as the teams set an American League record by stroking 19 doubles. Kansas City strokes 11 of the two-baggers? just one shy of the AL mark.
2009: Boston's 7 - 5 win over Detroit at Fenway Park is marred by a brawl in the 2nd inning. When Kevin Youkilis is hit by a Rick Porcello pitch, he charges the mound and both benches empty. Youkilis and Porcello are both ejected after Porcello wrestles Youkillis to the ground with punches and forearm shivers. Youkillis is bloodied and beaten by the 20 year old rookie.
2011: Justin Verlander is the first 17-game winner in the majors after defeating Cleveland, 4 - 3. The Tigers avoid a three-game sweep and leave the shores of Lake Erie with a three-game lead over the Indians. It is the 100th win of Verlander's career; he is the only active major leaguer under 30 to have reached the total.
Jose Valverde converts his 33rd consecutive save opportunity for a team record.
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2012: The Yankees beat the Blue Jays, 5 - 2. Derek Jeter collects his league-leading 150th hit of the season, joining Hank Aaron as the only two players to have 17 seasons of 150 or more hits.
2014: The Detroit Tigers released Casey Crosby.
2019: Trevor Rosenthal of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bobo_Newsom
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/newsobo01.shtml
Bobo Newsom 1939-1941.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bob_Scheffing
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/schefbo01.shtml
Bob Scheffing manager 1961-1963, radio/tv announcer 1964, scout 1965.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bill_Monbouquette
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/monbobi01.shtml
Bill Monboquette 1966-1967.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Vada_Pinson
Vada Pinson coach 1985-1991.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pedrial01.shtml
Al Pedrique 1989.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Babe Ellison 1916-1920.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ted_Radcliffe
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/radclte01.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Radcliffe
https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=radcl01ted
Ted Double Duty Radcliffe Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1928-1929, 1931.
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