August 3 in Tigers and mlb history:
1904: The New York Highlanders loaned Monte Beville to the Detroit Tigers.
1914: Yankee catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers trying to steal second base. It will be the only time a backstop has accomplished the feat in a single inning this century.
1921: The Detroit Tigers purchased Allen Conkwright from Bloomington (Three-I).
1923: No games are played following the death of President Warren G. Harding in San Francisco on August 2. The schedule will also be canceled a week later on the day of his funeral.
1930: In the first of two in a doubleheader sweep over the Braves, Chuck Klein hits safely in his 26th consecutive game, the second time this season he has run a streak to this length. He will hit safely in 135 of his team's 156 games this season. Klein, who hit .434 in the stretch, is stopped in the second game of the doubleheader. The Phils win, 11 - 5 and 4 - 1.
1930: At Washington, the Senators divide a pair with Boston, winning 11 - 2 and losing 7 - 1. Joe Judge manages the Nats with Walter Johnson in mourning, Senator players will act as pall bearers at Mrs. Johnson's funeral tomorrow.
1931: The A's Lefty Grove beats the Senators, 3 - 2, giving up 11 hits. Grove has now won 13 straight games.
1933: The Yankees are shut out by the A's and Lefty Grove, 7 - 0, for their first scoreless game since August 2, 1931. They had tallied in 308 games in a row, during which they scored 1,986 runs (6.5 per game) to 1,434 for the opposition, which New York hurlers blanked 22 times. This record is still standing.
1941: The Homestead Grays and Baltimore Elite Giants play a doubleheader at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium, featuring four future Hall of Famers: Teams had a combined four members of the Baseball Hall: Roy Campanella, Buck Leonard, Jud Wilson, & Ray Brown.
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1948: Before 72,434 in Cleveland, ancient Satchel Paige makes his first start, pitching seven innings against the Senators before being relieved. Paige picks up the win, 5 - 3.
1950: The Detroit Tigers purchased Hank Borowy from the Pittsburgh Pirates for $15,000.
1955: Frank Lary of the Tigers beats Washington 3 - 0 on a complete game 2-hitter with 0 strikeouts.
1959: For the first time in major league history a second All-Star Game is played in the same season. The American League posts a 5 - 3 victory at the Los Angeles Coliseum as the White Sox's Nellie Fox singles in the decisive run.
1960: Frank Lane trades managers with Detroit GM Bill DeWitt. The Indians' manager Joe Gordon (49-46) is traded for Tigers Jimmy Dykes (44-52).
1961: A 3 run pinch hit HR by Charley Maxwell turned a 3-1 Washington lead into a 4-3 Tigers lead. Don Mossi kept the Senators off the board the rest of the way as the Tigers won the first game of tonight's twi-nighter.
1967: The Red Sox obtain catcher Elston Howard from the Yankees for cash and two players to be named later. Pete Magrini and Ron Klimkowski, both pitchers, will be sent to New York as part of the trade.
1969: Willie Horton hits a walkoff grand slam to give the Tigers 6-2 win over White Sox at Tiger Stadium.
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1980: Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein, and Tom Yawkey are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1985: The Detroit Tigers signed Mickey Mahler as a free agent.
1986: Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
1992: Tigers president Bo Schembechler and team chairman Jim Campbell are both fired by fax.
1995: The Senate Judiciary Committee sends a bill calling for the partial repeal of baseball's antitrust exemption to the full Senate. The vote is just 9-8.
1996: Tigers beat the Mariners 6-3 on a walk-off 3-run home run by Brad Ausmus at Tiger Stadium.
1997: Phil Niekro, Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox, and Willie Wells are inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
1999: The Major League Umpires Association files unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board to block the American League and National League from using minor league replacements in the wake of the union's mass resignation strategy.
2001: A jury orders Anheuser-Busch to pay the family of the late Roger Maris $50 million for improperly taking away a beer distributorship. Both sides plan to appeal the ruling, as attorneys for the Maris family said the panel meant to award the family $139 million, but were confused by the judge's instructions to the jury.
2009: Justin Verlander of the Tigers gives up 5 runs to the Orioles in the 1st inning, before settling down. Brian Roberts leads off the game with a home run, and four more runs score before the second out is recorded.
Detroit scores three in the bottom of the inning, on doubles by Placido Polanco and Miguel Cabrera. Cabrera then homers to tie the game in the 5th. With two outs in the bottom of the 9th, Clete Thomas homers to deepest center field off Danys Baez to give Detroit the comeback 6 - 5 win, which extends its lead over the idle White Sox to 2 games in the AL Central.
2010: The Oakland Athletics selected Jeff Larish off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
2013: Juan Berenguer, World Champion with the Tigers in 1984, is inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame in a ceremony at Comerica Park.
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2013: Max Scherzer improves to 16-1 in the Tigers 3-0 win over White Sox.
2015: Mike Hessman of the Toledo Mud Hens hits his 433rd home run in the minor leagues, passing Buzz Arlett for most all-time in the U.S.-based minors. Four players whose careers were largely in Mexico have hit more. Among these, Hector Espino remains the all-time leader with 484.
2015: Adrian Beltre hits for the cycle for the third time in his career when he gets all four hits by the end of the 5th inning in the Rangers' 12 - 9 win over the Astros. The last player to hit three cycles was Babe Herman, who hit his third in 1933; Bob Meusel and John Reilly are the only other members of this exclusive club.
2016: JD Martinez returns from placed on the disabled list June 17 to pinch hit in the eighth inning vs. the White Sox Chris Sale. He hits the first pitch he sees in 7 weeks for a home run and the Tigers win 2 - 1.
2018: Blaine Hardy takes a no-hitter into the 7th inning, but the Tigers lose 1-0 in the 13th inning in Oakland.
Tigers players, coaches, and announcers birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Harry_Heilmann
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https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Harry-Heilmann/
Harry Heilmann 1914, 1916-1929, radio/tv announcer 1934-1950. Led AL in BA 4X, with averages of .403, .398, .394 and .393 w/Tigers odd numbered years in the 1920s. Career .342 mark, 148 OPS+.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jim_Hegan
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heganji01.shtml
Jim Hegan 1958, coach 1974-1978.
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Dan Meyer 1974-1976.
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Wendell Magee 2000-2002.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/joycema01.shtml
Matt Joyce 2008.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mccoypa01.shtml
Pat McCoy 2014.
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