September 1 in Tigers and mlb history:
1885: Detroit Wolverines C Charlie Bennett hits a grand slam in the 1st inning? leading Detroit to an 8 - 3 victory over the New York Giants. Only two other grand slams are hit this year? one by Dave Orr (New York) and one by Tom Brown (Pittsburgh).
1905: Hillerich & Bradsby sign a contract with Honus Wagner to produce the first autographed model bat.
1906: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jimmy Archer from Atlanta (Southern Association) in the 1906 rule 5 draft.
1906: The Detroit Tigers drafted Tex Erwin from Fort Worth (Texas) in the 1906 rule 5 draft.
1906: The Detroit Tigers drafted Hughie Jennings from Baltimore (Eastern) in the 1906 rule 5 draft.
1906: The Detroit Tigers drafted Red Killefer from Kalamazoo (Southern Michigan) in the 1906 rule 5 draft.
1906: The American League's longest game to date takes place in Boston before 16?000. Rookies Jack Coombs and 24-year-old Joe Harris go the route in a 24-inning struggle? ending with a 4 - 1 Athletics victory after 4 hours and 47 minutes. It sets the major league record? later broken? and is still the AL mark for two pitchers. Two batters single, and then Socks Seybold and Danny Murphy hit triples with two outs to end the contest. Philadelphia's Coombs faces 89 batters? striking out a major league record 18 (broken in 1962) and giving up 14 hits? while the Americans' Harris fans 14 and yields 16 hits. Harris drops his record to 2-21? and will start next year at 0-6 before exiting the majors for Providence? holding the distinctions of the worst winning percentage (.091 for a 3-30 record) and the fewest wins for any pitcher with 300 innings pitched. The 24 innings pitched will only be exceeded this century by the 26-inning battle on May 1? 1920 between Joe Oeschger and Leon Cadore. There won't be a longer game in the AL until May 8? 1984.
1907: The Detroit Tigers drafted Donie Bush from South Bend (Central) in the 1907 rule 5 draft.
1909: The Detroit Tigers drafted Frank Browning from San Francisco (PCL) in the 1909 rule 5 draft.
1909: The Detroit Tigers drafted Eddie Foster from Jersey City (Eastern) in the 1909 rule 5 draft.
1909: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jay Kirke from Wilkes-Barre (New York State) in the 1909 rule 5 draft.
1909: The Detroit Tigers drafted Hack Simmons from Rochester (International) in the 1909 rule 5 draft.
1910: The Detroit Tigers drafted Dave Skeels from Regina (Western Canada) in the 1910 rule 5 draft.
1911: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jean Dubuc from Montreal (Eastern) in the 1911 rule 5 draft.
1911: The Detroit Tigers drafted Baldy Louden from Newark (Eastern) in the 1911 rule 5 draft.
1911: The Detroit Tigers drafted Ossie Vitt from San Francisco (PCL) in the 1911 rule 5 draft.
1911: In game one of a Giants doubleheader? Christy Mathewson gives up 10 hits but beats the Phils, 3 - 2.
In game 2? Rube Marquard one-hits the Phils, 2 - 0? walks none? and fans 10. The Phils' Eddie "Smoke" Stack and Marquard match zeros for 7 innings? but a walk? single and two errors bring home two Giant runs. This is Rube's second one-hitter in a row: his previous start? on August 24? resulted in a two-hitter.
1917: In the bottom of the 1st inning at Cleveland? Tris Speaker tries to steal home with Joe Evans batting. Evans swings and lines the ball into Speaker's face. Tiger manager Hughie Jennings allows a courtesy fielder, Elmer Smith, to play CF in the 2nd frame while Speaker has his face stitched. Speaker then returns to CF in the 3rd.
1918: The Browns and Tigers finish the season with a doubleheader split in St. Louis as the Cleveland Indians refuse to make the trip for the Labor Day doubleheader. In Game 2? Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against the Browns while the Browns' George Sisler pitches one scoreless inning. The Browns win 6 - 2? and Sisler hits a double off Cobb. Detroit wins the opener 7 - 2.
1919: In the first of two Labor Day games? Babe Ruth allows 10 Washington hits? but wins, 2 - 1. Ruth drives home one run with a triple. The win is his last in a Red Sox uniform. In the nitecap? Ruth's 7th-inning homer snaps a 1 - 1 tie as Boston wins? 4 - 1. It is the Babe's 24th homer.
1930: A Labor Day crowd of 72?000 packs Yankee Stadium to see the World Champion A's split with the New Yorkers. The A's take the opener? 3 - 2? with reliever Lefty Grove striking out Babe Ruth with 2 on to end the game. Ruth drives in a run in the nitecap? 2 - 0, Yankee win. Red Ruffing pitches his second two-hitter in two weeks to beat George Earnshaw.
1931: Lou Gehrig hits his third grand slam in five days and his sixth home run in consecutive games when he connects in a 5 - 1 second-game win over the Red Sox. The blast? his 40th of the year? comes in the 3rd inning off Ed Morris. Gehrig connects in the opening 11 - 3 win against Milt Gaston? belting his 39th homer in the 7th inning. Lou finishes the day with 6 RBI and has knocked in 21 runs in the past 6 games.
1934: Jimmie Foxx cracks a two-run homer in the 9th? his 39th? off reliever Lefty Grove? to give the A's an 8 - 7 win over the Red Sox. Foxx? filling it at 3B for the injured Pinky Higgins? has three hits and 4 RBIs.
1936: Detroit's Schoolboy Rowe fires his second two-hit game in 8 days? beating the A's 4 - 1. Rowe beat the Red Sox on August 25th by a 5 - 0 score. Philadelphia is saved from a shutout when Bob Johnson blasts his 22nd home run in the 9th inning. All of Detroit's runs come in a hitless 4th when they use 5 walks? a fielder's choice and error.
1941: Rudy York wallops 3 home runs and drives in 5 runs for the Tigers who beat the Browns? 9 - 5 in game 1 in Detroit. The Tigers rattle 20 hits in the nitecap to win 16 - 8.
1941: At Fenway Park? the Red Sox sweep two from the Senators? 13 - 9 and 10 - 3. Ted Williams has only 5 official at bats? but has 3 hits - all homers - to take over the American League lead from Charlie Keller. Ted walks 4 times.
1945: Detroit's Hal Newhouser wrenches his back pitching against the Indians' Bob Feller. Newhouser leaves the game in the 7th and will stay behind when the team leaves for New York? but will rejoin them on the 7th. The Tigers win 5 - 4, behind Jim Tobin and are just 1 1/2 games ahead of the 2nd place Senators.
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1954: At Crosley Field? the Redlegs' Ted Kluszewski hits 2 home runs to break his own club mark of 40 homers. He will wind up with 49 for the season. Despite the Klu clouts? Cincinnati loses to Philadelphia? 9 - 3. In a pre-game stunt? Reds catcher Hobie Landrith catches a ball dropped out of a helicopter hovering some 500-600 feet over the field.
1961: The American League's biggest crowd of the year? 65?566? sees Whitey Ford and Don Mossi duel at Yankee Stadium as a week-end battle for first place begins. Two-out? 9th-inning hits by Elston Howard? Yogi Berra? and Bill Skowron give New York a 1 - 0 win over the Tigers.
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1964: Mickey Lolich begins a consecutive innings scoreless streak of 30.2 innings, 5th best in Tigers history. The streak stops on September 12.
1968: Denny McLain notches his 27th win of the season beating the Orioles 7 - 3. McLain helps the Tiger cause by starting a 3rd-inning triple play.
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1970: The Red Sox take an 8 - 1 lead at Fenway Park? but Detroit rallies to win, 10 - 9. The Sox take the lead on a Mike Andrews homer and a grand slam by Tony Conigliaro. The Tigers then use the long ball as well? collecting 4 homers? including a grand slam by Jim Price? and homeruns from Gates Brown, Norm Cash, Jim Northrup to win. Daryl Patterson is the winner over Sonny Siebert.
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1974: During a 5 - 3 win over the Tigers? the A's 1B Gene Tenace goes through the entire game without a fielding chance - only the 4th time this century that has occurred at that position. In the same game? Detroit's Reggie Sanders homers in his first major league at-bat.
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1975: Mets ace Tom Seaver shuts out the Pirates, 3 - 0, and reaches 200 strikeouts for a major league-record 8th straight season.
1975: It is "Bob Gibson Day" in St. Louis? as dignitaries? including August Busch and Bowie Kuhn? honor the 39-year-old pitcher. The Cards? led by Lou Brock? then drill the Cubs? 6 - 3. Brock has 3 singles? 3 stolen bases? and scores 3 times.
1980: Tigers OF Al Cowens and White Sox reliever Ed Farmer publicly end their long-running feud by shaking hands at home plate prior to Chicago's win at Tiger Stadium. The feud began in 1979 when Farmer broke Cowens' jaw with a pitch? and flared again this June 20th when Cowens hit a ground ball off Farmer and attacked the pitcher instead of running to first base. Cowens was suspended for 7 games and a warrant was issued for his arrest in Illinois? forcing him to skip the previous week's Tigers-White Sox series in Chicago. Farmer agreed to drop the charges in exchange for a handshake? and the two players bring out the lineup cards before today's game.
1983: The Detroit Tigers signed Bob Molinaro as a free agent.
1984: Tigers lose their 4th straight out west to fall to 87-49, Blue Jays win to cut the Tigers' lead to 8.5 games.
1984: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and cash to the Cincinnati Reds for Bill Scherrer. The Detroit Tigers sent Carl Willis (September 1, 1984) to the Cincinnati Reds to complete the trade.
1995: The Detroit Tigers released Mike Gardiner.
2006: The Detroit Tigers sent Nook Logan to the Washington Nationals as part of a conditional deal.
2012: Tigers beat the White Sox 5-1 to cut their lead to one game. Delmon Young goes deep, Max Scherzer pitches 8 scoreless innings.
2019: Justin Verlander pitches the third no-hitter of his career as the Astros defeat the Blue Jays, 2 - 0. Verlander issues only one walk in pitching the complete game, and is only the sixth pitcher to have performed the feat three or more times. It is the second time that the Jays are his victims, making him only the third pitcher to no-hit the same team team twice.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Jimmy Wiggs 1905-1906.
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Fred Nicholson 1917.
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Paul Campbell 1948-1950.
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Gary Ignasiak 1973.
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Dave Rucker 1981-1983.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Frank McManus 1904.
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Boots Poffenberger 1937-1938.
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