July 29 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: At the Polo Grounds, Boston's Kid Nichols and Christy Mathewson square off for a ten-inning shootout, with Boston prevailing, 5 - 4. Matty gives up 11 hits in bringing his record to 15-11.
1910: White Sox OF Patsy Dougherty breaks up Detroit's Ed Summers's no-hitter. Ty Cobb scores from second on an infield single, and the Tigers and Summers win it 1 - 0. It is the fourth time in his 10-year career that the .284 hitter has ruined someone's no-hitter.
1911: At Boston's Huntington Avenue Grounds, 'Smokey' Joe Wood of the Red Sox whiffs twelve Browns en route to a 5 - 0 no-hitter.
1919: At Navin Field, Dutch Leonard decides to pitch around Braggo Roth with two outs in the 9th inning to face Babe Ruth. Although the Boston slugger, who has already reached the Detroit southpaw with two doubles, responds by tying an American League record with his ninth home run of the month and sixteenth of the season, the Tigers prevail, 10 - 8.
1922: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ken Holloway from Augusta (South Atlantic) for $8,000.
1928: The Indians score eight in the 1st and nine in the 2nd in a 24 - 6 win over the Yankees at home. Johnny Hodapp of the Indians becomes the first American League player to get two hits in an inning twice in a game. He strokes 2 singles in both the 2nd and 6th innings of the game. The Yankees' lead shrinks from 11 1/2 games to 6 in one week.
1931: The Detroit Tigers purchased George Quellich from Reading (International).
1938: In a postgame radio interview with Bob Elson, Jake Powell of the Yankees will make headlines with remarks about "beating up #*&**rs and then throwing them in jail" as part of his off-season duties as a policeman. For the statements, Judge Landis suspends Powell for 10 days.
1941:Ty Cobb Tops Babe Ruth In Golf Match For USO Benefit (July 29, 1941) #Yankees #Tigers #MLB
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1945: The West wins the 1945 East-West Game, 9 - 6, as Bill Williams drives in four and Archie Ware three. Verdell Mathis picks up two hits and tosses three hitless, scoreless innings for the victory. The West leads 9 - 0 after four due to poor pitching performances from Tom Glover and Bill Ricks.
1954: The Detroit Tigers selected Hoot Evers off waivers from the New York Giants.
1955: At Crosley Field, Smoky Burgess hits 3 home runs and drives in nine runs as the Redlegs rout the Pirates, 16 - 5.
1958: Ted Williams hits his 17th career grand slam, tying him for 2nd place with Babe Ruth, and behind Lou Gehrig, who had 23. Williams also adds a three-run homer, as Boston beats Detroit, 11 - 8.
1962: Don Drysdale pushes his record to 19-4 as he completes a three-game Dodger sweep over the Giants, winning, 11 - 1. Frank Howard has a home run and three singles to drive home five runs. Willie Mays accounts for the only Giants run with a home run.
1964: Gates Brown's 2-run home run in the bottom of the 8th gives the Tigers a 3-2 win over the White Sox.
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1968: Denny McLain appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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1970: Hank Aaron cracks two home runs and drives in five runs to lead the Braves to a 9 - 7 come-from-behind win over the visiting Cardinals.
1972: Brooks Robinson hits a two-out home run in the 11th to give Baltimore a 4 - 3 win over the Indians.
1974: Detroit hits four home runs in the first inning in an 8 - 2 win over the Indians. Al Kaline, Bill Freehan and Mickey Stanley hit consecutive home runs off Fritz Peterson, and Ed Brinkman adds another later in the inning, off Steve Kline.
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1983: Due to a dislocated thumb caused by a collision at home plate trying to score in the first game of a doubleheader against the Braves, Padres 1B Steve Garvey's consecutive game streak ends in the nightcap at 1,207.
1984: Tigers 3 - Red Sox 0. Milt Wilcox tosses a gem, allowing 3 hits and 0 walks in 8 innings. Ruppert Jones' triple is the game's only XBH. Tigers (70-32) get their 70th win.
1986: Sparky Anderson, the first manager to win the World Series in each league, also becomes the first manager to win 600 games in both the National and American Leagues when his Tigers beat the Brewers 9 - 5. Sparky will manage the Tigers for 17 years total and become the All-Time winningest manager in the Tigers franchise with 1,331 Wins.
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1990: At Detroit, the Red Sox bang out 12 doubles, setting an American League record, in a 13 - 3 win over the Tigers. Wade Boggs has 3, while Tim Naehring, Jody Reed and Ellis Burks each have 2. Greg Harris wins easily. The previous AL record was 11, set on July 14, 1934 by Detroit against New York. The 12 two-baggers will be tied in 1996 by Cleveland.
1993: The Houston Astros selected John Hudek off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1997: Pedro Martinez strikes out 13 Rockies, including Andres Galarraga four times, in Montreal's 3 - 0 win. Martinez gives up just three hits in going all the way.
1998: The Detroit Tigers signed Ramon Santiago as an amateur free agent.
2002: The text of the letter signed by 40 Hall of Famers and sent to baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union head Donald Fehr urges all sides "to protect the game we all love and have given so much to, we suggest you agree to a qualified mediator that will allow you to find the common ground necessary to avoid a work stoppage" is released.
The former outstanding players, who include Reggie Jackson, Willie Mays and Warren Spahn, believe another work stoppage would be a terrible mistake.
2007: Major League Baseball sets a single-day attendance record as 717,478 fans show up for 17 games. It easily breaks the 640,412 record set on July 3, 1999.
2007: Ichiro Suzuki collects the 1,500th hit of his major league career, a single off of Lenny DiNardo. It comes in his 1,060th game. Only two players - Al Simmons (1,040) and George Sisler (1,048) - have accumulated 1,500 hits in fewer games.
2007: Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
2008: Ichiro Suzuki raps the 3,000th hit of his career, combining the major leagues (1,722) and Japan's Pacific League (1,278). Isao Harimoto was the only player to collect 3,000 or more hits in Nippon Pro Baseball, putting Ichiro second all-time in hits by a Japanese player in top-tier baseball leagues.
2013: The Houston Astros traded Jose Veras to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later and Danry Vasquez (minors). The Detroit Tigers sent David Paulino (September 13, 2013) to the Houston Astros to complete the trade.
2017: John Hiller throws out the first pitch at Comerica Park.
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2018: The Hall of Fame inducts one of the largest classes in its history before a crowd of more than 50,000 in Cooperstown, NY. Honored are Vladimir Guerrero, Trevor Hoffman, Chipper Jones, Jack Morris, Jim Thome and Alan Trammell, four of them having been elected by the BBWAA and Morris and Trammell by the Veterans Committee.
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Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
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George Cutshaw 1922-1923.
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Roy Henshaw 1942-1944.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Don_Wert
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Don Wert 1963-1970.
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Dave LaPoint 1986.
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Jeff Jones minors coach 1989-1994, 1996-1998, 2000-2006, majors coach 1995, 1999, Tigers pitching coach 2007-2015.
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Seth Greisinger 1998, 2002.
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