March 1 in Tigers and mlb history:
1903: Baseball Rules Committee chairman Tom Loftus of the Washington Senators proclaims that the pitcher's mound must not be more than 15 inches higher than the baselines or home plate.
1909: The Pittsburgh Pirates begin construction of their new stadium near Schenley Park near the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. The state-of-the-art stadium will be named Forbes Field in honor of John Forbes, a pre-Revolutionary British general.
1910: The National Commission prohibits giving mementos to players on winning World Series teams. This will later be reversed, making way for the traditional winners' watches, rings, and stickpins.
1919: Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack makes one of his biggest player mistakes, trading third baseman Larry Gardner, outfielder Charlie Jamieson, and pitcher Elmer Myers to the Cleveland Indians for OF Braggo Roth. Veteran writer Ernest Lanigan predicts that Roth will lead the circuit in home runs at Shibe Park, but Roth will be shipped to the Boston Red Sox by midseason. Gardner will put in six more .300 years, and Jamieson will be a top leadoff man and .303 hitter for the next 14 years.
1928: Ty Cobb agrees to return for a second season with the Philadelphia Athletics. It will be the last year of his legendary career. Cobb retires the end of this season and holds 90 ML records.
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1942: Major league owners decide not to allow furloughed players in the military to play for their clubs if based near a game site.
1944: Future Hall of Fame catcher Rick Ferrell is traded by the St. Louis Browns to the Washington Senators for Tony Giuliani and cash. When Giuliani refuses to report to his new team, Washington will send Gene Moore to the Browns to complete the trade.
1947: In anticipation of the signing of the team's first black players, Bill Veeck, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, sets up a spring training camp there for the Cleveland Indians. Arizona is chosen because of its relatively tolerant racial climate. During the season, Veeck will sign the American League's first black player, Larry Doby, who will train at the camp.
The New York Giants also set up camp in Arizona, while the Brooklyn Dodgers move their training camp from Florida to Havana, Cuba.
1947: New managers in spring training camps are Billy Herman with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Muddy Ruel with the St. Louis Browns, Bucky Harris with the New York Yankees, and Johnny Neun with the Cincinnati Reds. Neun ended 1946 as manager of the Yankees after both Joe McCarthy and Bill Dickey quit.
1954: Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams fractures his collarbone on the first day of spring training. The injury occurs as Williams dives for a ball hit by teammate Hoot Evers. As a result, the injury will force Williams to miss Opening Day and will keep him out of Boston lineup until May 15th.
1965: Future Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente misses the first day of spring training because of a bout with malaria. The Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder will sit out a full month of training camp with the disease, which he contracted during the off-season. Clemente will recover to bat .329, but will hit only 10 home runs with 65 RBI, his worst totals since 1959.
1967: Commissioner William Eckert approves the Baseball Writers Association of America's plan to select a Cy Young Award recipient from both the National and American Leagues. The honor, which was initiated in 1956, had been given to just one pitcher in the major leagues each season, a position strongly supported by former commissioner Ford Frick.
1968: Mickey Lolich left camp today for a two week stint in the Michigan Air National Guard.
1969: New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle announces his retirement. Mantle, who slumped to a .237 batting average in 1968, finishes his 18-season career with 536 home runs and a .298 average, numbers that would have certainly been higher if not for persistent knee injuries. "I can?t play anymore. I don?t hit the ball when I need to, I can?t steal when I need to. I can?t score from second when I need to.?
The Yankees offer Mantle a coaching position on manager Ralph Houk's staff.
1971: Willie Mays signs a two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants for $165,000 per season.
1982: The Oakland Athletics traded Jeff Cox and Scott Meyer to the Detroit Tigers for Mark Fellows (minors), Jack Smith (minors) and Darrell Brown.
1983: The Detroit Tigers signed Bill Nahorodny as a free agent.
1988: For the first time since 1956, the Special Veterans Committee does not elect anyone to the Hall of Fame. Phil Rizzuto, Leo Durocher, Joe Gordon and Gil Hodges, are among the candidates passed over.
2002: The Boston Red Sox fire general manager Dan Duquette and replace him with Mike Port on an interim basis.
2009: Washington Nationals GM Jim Bowden resigns following allegations of skimming bonuses to Latin American players and the identity fraud scandal surrounding Esmailyn Gonzalez.
2010: The Boston Red Sox selected Casey Fien off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
2010: SABR announces the first nine winners of the Henry Chadwick Award, created to honor baseball researchers, historians, analysts, and statisticians.
2011: Major League Baseball appoints John Thorn as its official historian. He succeeds Jerome Holtzman, who occupied the office from 1999 until his death in 2008.
2013: SABR announces its 2013 class of Chadwick Award winners, headed by historians Fred Lieb, Francis Richter and John Thorn, the Hall of Fame's official historian.
2015: Minnie Minoso, one of the first black stars of the American League in the 1950s and one of only two men to play in the major leagues in five different decades, dies in Chicago, IL at either 92 or 89, as there is uncertainty over his true date of birth.
2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Lucas Harrell as a free agent.
2016: Commissioner Rob Manfred sends a strong message on the issue of domestic violence as he issues a thirty-game suspension to Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman in response to an incident on October 30th. The suspension comes even though police declined to file charges in the case because of inconsistent evidence, however MLB goes ahead based on the severity of the allegations. Chapman announces that he will not appeal.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Tim Thompson 1958.
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Jimmy Hurst 1997.
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Kris Keller 2002.
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Doug Creek 2005.
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Jose Valdez 2015.
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Joe Mantiply 2016.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Bob Mavis 1949.
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