August 14 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: The Detroit Tigers released Davey Crockett.
1901: The Detroit Tigers released Ed High.
1903: In Detroit, Cy Young picks up his 20th win as Boston wins, 6 - 3.
1908: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ed Lafitte from Jersey City (Eastern) for $5,000.
1908: The Nationals' Walter Johnson hurls a 1 - 0 victory over the White Sox, allowing just two hits, the first a 9th-inning single by Sox P Doc White.
1912: Tris Speaker runs his hitting streak to 20 games, lining a hit in the first game of today's twin bill with the Browns. This is Speaker's third long streak of the season; earlier he had streaks of 20 games and 30 games, the only player in history to have three such streaks in a year.
1915: In the first match-up of Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson, the Babe comes away the winner, 4 - 3. He also goes 2 for 3 and scores a Boston run in the come-from-behind victory. Ruth is hitting .370, 2nd in the American League behind Ty Cobb.
1919: Babe Ruth hits No. 17, the first of seven home runs in 12 days, which will include his 4th grand slam, an American League record until 1959.
1929: It is Charlie Gehringer Day in Detroit, and the popular 2B handles 10 chances in the field, hits three singles and a home run, and steals home in a 17 - 13 win over the Yankees.
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1933: Jimmie Foxx hits for the cycle and drives in nine runs to break the American League record, as the A's beat the Indians, 11 - 5. A record eight players will hit for the cycle this year.
1934: The largest weekday crowd in history watches as the Tigers sweep a pair at Yankee Stadium by scores of 9 to 5 and 7 to 3. It is the Tigers' 14th straight; Schoolboy Rowe has won 13 in succession on his way to 16 straight. 2B Charlie Gehringer is the hitting star of the day with 6 RBI in the twin bill. The next day the Yankees will end the Tiger streak.
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1935: Schoolboy Rowe beats the Senators 18 - 2 and also goes 5 for 5 at the plate. His hits include a double and a triple, and he scores three and knocks in 3.
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1937: Detroit star second baseman Charlie Gehringer collects a personal-high 12 total bases in one game with two singles, a double, and two home runs. It?s in one of two blowout victories Detroit has on the day over the Browns, 16-1 and 20-7.
1937: The Detroit Tigers purchased Al Benton from Memphis (Southern Association).
1948: Rookie George Vico drives in seven runs to pace the Tigers to a 10 - 3 win over the Browns. Vico is one better than a cycle, collecting two doubles, a triple and homer to back Virgil Trucks' sparkling one-hit relief effort over 6+ innings.
1950: Before 60,120, the Indians turn back the Tigers, 3 - 2, in 10 innings, and reduce Detroit's first-place advantage to 2 1/2 games. Al Rosen ties the game in the 9th with a two-out home run. RF Bob Kennedy helps the Tribe's cause by starting a triple play from the outfield, recalling Tribe LF Charlie Jamieson's two triple plays of 1928.
1951: Ted Williams hits two home runs to take the American League lead, and the Red Sox pull off a triple play to beat the A's, 7 - 4. With his 25th home run, Ted reaches 100 RBIs.
1952: The Detroit Tigers traded Don Lenhardt, Dick Littlefield, Marlin Stuart and Vic Wertz to the St. Louis Browns for Bud Black, Jim Delsing, Ned Garver and Dave Madison.
1960: The Yankees lose a doubleheader to Washington and fall to 3rd place in the American League, a half game behind the Orioles and White Sox. P Camilo Pascual's grand slam is the difference in a 5 - 4 first-game win. In the second game, Mickey Mantle, believing there are two outs, jogs to first base on a grounder to third.
The Senators turn a double play, with New York's Roger Maris suffering bruised ribs trying to break it up at second base. Maris will miss 18 games as a result. Mantle is heavily booed, and manager Casey Stengel replaces him with Bob Cerv. The clubs set a major-league record by using 17 pinch hitters - 9 by the Yankees - in the doubleheader (more than 18 innings), while playing a major-league record 24 errorless innings.
1966: Denny McLain steals third base, the only stolen base of his career, and scores on a grounder in an 8 - 5 loss to the red sox.
1968: Bill Freehan's solo homer and Norm Cash's RBI triple lead the Tigers to a 3-0 win over the indians. Mickey Lolich pitches 5+ innings of scoreless relief for the win.
1972: In Atlanta, Johnny Bench drives in five runs on a home run, double and single, to lead the Reds to a 12 - 2 win over the Braves.
1984: After getting swept in a doubleheader, the #Tigers are 77-43. The Blue Jays sweep a doubleheader to pull within 7.5 games.
1984: The Detroit Tigers released Glenn Abbott.
1988: Detroit pounds Boston 18 - 6 at Fenway Park to end the Red Sox' American League-record home winning streak at 24 games, two shy of the major-league record held by the 1916 Giants. Roger Clemens gives up eight runs in 1 1/3 innings as the temperature hits 97 degrees. SS Alan Trammell, C Matt Nokes, and 1B Dave Bergman each knock in 2 runs, but RF Chet Lemon and DH Darrell Evans each have 5 rbi.
1991: Seattle's Randy Johnson tosses a one-hitter against the Oakland A's, losing the no-hitter in the 9th inning when Mike Gallego singles. He records his 11th win of the year with the 4 - 0 victory.
1991: San Diego's Fred McGriff hits a grand slam for the second game in a row, tying a major league mark. He is the 12th player - but just the third National Leaguer - to perform the feat, with Babe Ruth the only one to do so twice. His blast brings home all San Diego's runs in a 4 - 1 win over the Astros.
1998: The A's Rickey Henderson's stolen base in the 1st inning against the Tigers makes the 39-year-old the oldest player to steal 50 bases in a season.
1999: With his 20th stolen base in Chicago, Texas backstop Ivan Rodriguez becomes the first catcher in major league history with 20 homers and 20 stolen bases in the same season.
2000: The Tigers score eight runs in the 5th inning and go on to defeat the Mariners 15 - 4.
2007: The Detroit Tigers traded Jack Hannahan to the Oakland Athletics for Jason Perry.
2007: Bobby Cox is ejected by Ted Barrett for arguing a strike call against Chipper Jones. It is Cox's 132nd career major league ejection, breaking the record held for over 70 years by John McGraw.
2009: Tigers win 1-0 on a walk-off home run by Brandon Inge. Jerrod Washburn pitches a gem: 8 scoreless innings with 3 hits and 2 walks.
2012: The Tigers' Miguel Cabrera becomes the first player to reach 100 RBI this season and Doug Fister does not allow an earned run over 8 innings to even his record at 7-7 after a poor start as Detroit defeats Minnesota, 8 - 4.
2014: The Detroit Tigers signed Casey Crosby as a free agent.
2014: At their quarterly meeting in Baltimore, MD, Major League Baseball owners choose MLB Chief Operating Officer Rob Manfred to succeed Bud Selig as Commissioner. While a number of rounds of voting are necessary, the final vote is 30-0 in favor of Manfred. He is slated to take over from Selig on January 15, 2015.
2016: Michael Fulmer pitches a complete game 7 - 0 shutout over the rangers, the first by a Tigers rookie since Justin Verlander in 2006.
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2017: The Detroit Tigers released Argenis Diaz.
2019: With his 3,167th hit, Albert Pujols passes countryman Adrian Beltre for most by a player from the Dominican Republic, and by any player born outside the United States.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Kyle 'Skinny' Graham 1929.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mark_Fidrych
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Mark Fidrych 1976-1980.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Pat_Mullin
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mullipa01.shtml
Pat Mullin 1940-1941, 1946-1953, scout 1957-1963, coach 1963-1966.
Last Tigers player to wear #6 before Kaline.
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