April 6 in Tigers and mlb history :
1903 - Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane is born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Cochrane will make his major league debut in 1925, when he bats .331 for the Philadelphia Athletics. A standout defensive catcher, Cochrane will bat .320 over a 13-year career. Including 4 years as the player manager for the Detroit Tigers, batting .313 in that span, winning the AL MVP
in 1934, and leading the team to back to back pennants in 1934, and in 1935, his Tigers won the World Series. He will gain Hall of Fame honors in 1947.
1972 - The first general strike in the history of the major leagues officially begins with the cancellation of Opening Day games in both leagues. The strike will be settled seven days later when the players and owners come to agreement on pension fund payments. The two sides agree not to make up the 86 missed games.
1996: Tiger CF Melvin Nieves bangs two doubles? a triple and a homer as the Tigers top the A's? 6 - 1. Nieves was acquired from the Padres in a spring training trade.
1999: The U.S. government garnishes Denny McLain's pension in order to reimburse the pension fund that he was convicted of laundering money from. McLain was recently divorced and under the terms of the settlement?? all of his assets went to his wife? including his pension? while McLain got all of the debts. But? a federal judge overruled that and ordered that all of McLain's pension benefits be used to reimburse his victims.
2006: Using his newly-perfected knuckleball, Texas P R.A. Dickey ties a post-1900 major league record by surrendering six homers to the Tigers in a 10 - 6 Detroit victory. The only major league pitcher to give up more homers was Charlie Sweeney of the St. Louis Maroons who allowed seven to the Detroit Wolverines on June 12, 1886. Detroit clouts 7 round-trippers in the contest, and sets a major league record with 15 homers in their first three games, breaking the mark of 10 set by the 1998 Mariners. The Tigers set a team record for any 3-game span, breaking the mark of 14, set in 1997.
Tigers players and managers birthdays :
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mickey_Cochrane
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cochrmi01.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/cochrmi01.shtml
Mickey Cochrane player and manager 1934-1937, manager 1938.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Phil_Regan
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reganph01.shtml
Phil Regan 1960-1965.
Tigers players who passed away :
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wyattjo02.shtml
John Wyatt 1968.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lou_Berberet
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berbelo01.shtml
Lou Berberet 1959-1960.
from baseball reference
