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October 21 in Tigers and mlb history:

1887: The Detroit Wolverines clinch the World Series championship in Game 11, beating the St. Louis Browns 13-3.
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1928: Hall of Famer Whitey Ford was born this day in Astoria, New York, NY.
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1934: An All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails on tour to Hawaii and Japan. Players with wives include Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Charlie Gehringer, Lefty G?mez, Earl Averill and Lefty O'Doul.

1935: Navin Field's name was changed to Briggs Stadium. Most Detroiters alive today, however, remember the ballpark better as Tiger Stadium.
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1946: Detroit pitcher Hal Newhouser finishes second to Boston outfielder Ted Williams in voting for American Most Valuable Player. Newhouser won 26 games and led the league in ERA as he nearly wins the MVP Award for the third straight season.

1957: The New York Giants, who are moving to San Francisco in 1958, purchase the Class-A San Francisco Seals team and will convince the Pacific Coast League to accept Phoenix as a location for the Seals.

1957: The Washington Senators reject the initial overtures of Minneapolis, MN-St. Paul, MN cities to move the team there.

1959: The Players Association approves two All-Star Games in 1960, to be held at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium and New York's Yankee Stadium. The players would like to have them played within four days of each other.

1964: After just 11 years in Milwaukee, the Braves' Board of Directors votes to ask the National League for permission to move to Atlanta. Milwaukee County officials sue to block the move.

1975: Boston RedSox pinch-hitter Bernie Carbo belts a three-run HR in the 8th inning vs. Cincinnati Reds pitcher Rawly Eastwick to tie World Series Game 6 at Fenway Park.
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1975: Carlton Fisk breaks up one of the best games in World Series history with a home run in the 12th inning to give the Boston Red Sox a 7 - 6 victory against the Cincinnati Reds, forcing a seventh game to decide the winner of the 1975 World Series.
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1976: With a 7 - 2 victory, the Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, completing a four-game sweep of the Yankees. It is the Reds' second straight World Championship. Johnny Bench hits two home runs for five RBI. He finishes with a .533 batting average and is named Series MVP. Yankees catcher Thurman Munson has six straight singles to tie a World Series mark. Cincinnati also becomes the first team ever to go through an entire League Championship Series and World Series without a defeat.
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1980: The Philadelphia Phillies become World Series champions for the first time in their 98-year history with a 4 - 1 triumph over the Kansas City Royals in Game 6 of the 1980 World Series.
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1983: The Detroit Tigers released Sal Butera.
1983: The Detroit Tigers released Bob Molinaro.
1983: The Detroit Tigers released Bill Nahorodny.

1994: Joe Boever of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1994: Greg Cadaret of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1998: The New York Yankees close out their historic season with 3 - 0 victory against the San Diego Padres, sweeping San Diego in four games to win their record 24th World Series championship. Andy Pettitte gets the victory, and Scott Brosius is named Series MVP. The Game 4 victory gives the Yankees 125 wins against 50 losses for a .714 winning percentage, the best in the majors since their Murderers' Row club of 1927, as their American League record of 114 regular-season victories were the most ever for a major league champion team.
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2006: Justin Verlander strikes out 8, but is outdueled by fellow rookie Anthony Reyes as the Cardinals take Game 1 of the World Series, 7-2.

2013: Two days after losing the 2013 ALCS, Tigers manager Jim Leyland announces he is retiring after a 22-year career as a big league skipper.
Leyland led the Tigers to 4 playoff appearances, 3 division titles, and 2 pennants in 8 seasons.
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2017: The Astros win Game 7 of the ALCS, 4 - 0, over the Yankees to clinch their-first ever American League pennant. Having also won one in the National League in 2005, they become the first team to have done so in both major leagues. In the game, the Astros get a great combined pitching performance by Charlie Morton, who goes the first five innings, and Lance McCullers, who pitches the last four, limiting the Yankees to just three hits. Evan Gattis and Jose Altuve hit solo homers and Brian McCann drives in two runs, as CC Sabathia is charged with the loss.

2017: Less than two months after his trade from the Tigers, Justin Verlander is named ALCS MVP for the World Series bound Astros.
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2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Miguel Del Pozo as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

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Bill Lelivelt 1909-1910.

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Mark Christman 1938-1939.

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John Flaherty 1994-1996.

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Franklin Stubbs 1995.

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Casey Fien 2009-2010.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

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Wayne Belardi 1954-1956.

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Vada Pinson coach 1985-1991.

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October 22 in Tigers and mlb history:

1845: The first known box score appears in the New York Morning News a month after the first set of rules are written by Alexander Cartwright and some his fellow New York Knickerbockers.
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1907: Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx was born this day in Sudlersville, MD.
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1910: After three straight defeats and trailing the Philadelphia Athletics, 3 - 2, in the 9th inning of Game 5, the Chicago Cubs tie the score, then win, 4 - 3, in 10 innings for their only victory in the World Series. Three Finger Brown, in relief, is the winning pitcher over Chief Bender, who throws a complete game.

1920: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox are indicted for supposedly throwing the 1919 World Series. Although considered heavy favorites to win the Series, the White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds in eight games in what will become known as the Black Sox Scandal.

1956: The Detroit Tigers released Walt Masterson.

1960: The San Francisco Giants lose to their Tokyo counterparts, the Yomiuri Giants, 1 - 0, in the first of a 16-game exhibition series. San Francisco will lose again, 2 - 1, to the Japan All-Stars tomorrow, but will finish the series with 11 wins, four losses, and one tie.

1972: The Athletics defeat Cincinnati, 3 - 2, to win their first World Series since the franchise's move to Oakland. Gene Tenace, named Series MVP, drives in two of Oakland's runs. Future Hall of Fame pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter earns the victory in relief.

1975: The Detroit Tigers released Gene Michael.

1975: In a fitting finish to one of the most classic World Series ever played, the Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Red Sox in a thrilling Game 7 victory, 4 - 3. Joe Morgan's 9th-inning looping single scoring Ken Griffey proves to be the decisive hit.

1984: World Series MVP Alan Trammell appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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1985: Pitcher Bret Saberhagen gives the Kansas City Royals their first World Series victory with a complete game 6 - 1 decision in Game 3. The St. Louis Cardinals had won the Series' first two games, played in Kansas City.

1986: At Fenway Park, Gary Carter hits two home runs to lead the New York Mets to a 6 - 2 victory over the Boston Red Sox and even the World Series after four games.

1991: The first-ever World Series game played in Atlanta goes to the Braves. A two-out single by Mark Lemke in the 12th inning gives the Braves
a 5 - 4 win in Game 3 of the Series. David Justice scores the winning run. Lemke had made a potentially crucial error in the top half of the inning. The contest is the longest night game in Series history at four hours and four minutes, and the second longest by innings. The Minnesota Twins use a World Series-record 23 players in the game.

1998: Luis Pineda of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2000: Although lacking big league managerial experience, Pittsburgh Pirates hitting coach Lloyd McClendon is named as the team's manager, replacing recently-fired Gene Lamont.

2001: Willie Blair of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2002: Lou Gehrig's consecutive games streak being broken by Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1995 is voted as baseball's most memorable moment by the fans participating in a Major League Baseball and MasterCard promotion. Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home run record, Jackie Robinson becoming the first black to play in MLB, Mark McGwire breaking Roger Maris' single-season home run record and Gehrig's farewell speech were also in the top five events selected by the fans.

2003: The Florida Marlins win in dramatic fashion, 4 - 3, over the Yankees, in Game 4 of the World Series behind a lead-off home run by Alex Gonzalez in the bottom of the 12th inning. Miguel Cabrera also homers for Florida as Braden Looper has the win in relief.

2006: Sparky Anderson throws out the first pitch before Game 2 of the World Series at Comerica Park.
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2006: Kenny Rogers continues his mastery in the post-season, extending his scoreless innings streak to 23 with eight shutout frames in Detroit?s 3-1 victory in Game Two of the World Series. During the game, the Cardinals ask the umpires to examine Rogers? glove for a foreign substance, citing a dark smudge on his pitching hand. Rogers claims the smudge is dirt from the mound. Carlos Guillen goes 3-for-3 with a double and triple. Craig Monroe hits his 2nd HR of the series.
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2011: Albert Pujols has one of the greatest games in World Series history as he hits three homers, collects 5 hits and drives in 6 runs in Game 3 of the World Series in Arlington, TX. The Cardinals batter Texas, 16 - 7, in the third highest-scoring game ever in the Fall Classic, and are now up two games to one.
Pujols ties World Series single-game records for homers (Babe Ruth twice and Reggie Jackson), hits (Paul Molitor) and RBI (Bobby Richardson and Hideki Matsui) and sets a record with 14 total bases.

2014: Major League Baseball hands out its newly-named reliever awards for the first time.
In the National League, Craig Kimbrel of the Braves is the winner of the initial Trevor Hoffman Award,
while in the American league, Greg Holland of the Royals wins the Mariano Rivera Award.

2017: The Red Sox announce that they have hired Astros bench coach Alex Cora to be their new manager. He replaces John Farrell, who was let go on October 11th after seeing the team eliminated in the Division Series for the second straight year.

2019: Playing the first World Series game in franchise history, the Nationals win Game 1 of the 2019 World Series, 5 - 4, over the Astros. The game is billed as a match-up between star pitchers Max Scherzer and Gerrit Cole, but it's the hitters who steal the show, with Washington's Juan Soto getting three hits, including a homer and a two-run double off Cole, and George Springer homers in his fifth straight World Series game for Houston. Scherzer is the winner, working hard to get through five innings, and Sean Doolittle records the save.

2021: The Astros continue their mastery over the Red Sox's bats, shutting them down on 2 hits in Game 6 of the ALCS, 5 - 0, to win the American League pennant. Yordan Alvarez goes 4 for 4 with 2 doubles and 1 triple and scores Houston's first two runs on his way to winning the ALCS MVP Award while Kyle Tucker seals the win with a three-run homer in the 8th. Luis Garcia is the winner with 5 2/3 innings of one-hit ball.

Tigers players birthdays:

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Chick Lathers 1910-1911.

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Brad Thomas 2010-2011.

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Drew VerHagen 2014-2019.

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Carlos Torres 2019.

Tigers players who passed away:

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Frank Scheibeck 1906.

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Babe Pinelli 1920.

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Earl Whitehill 1923-1932.

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John Tsitouris 1957.

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SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

In an interview earlier this week, President of Baseball Operations Scott Harris made some revealing comments about the organization?s corporate culture. Since he was hired in September, Harris has been digging into the team?s structure and meeting with as many employees as possible.

He indicated that there has been a pervasive practice of stifling constructive discussion. That employees were dissuaded from offering feedback and that a system of analyzing decisions and their worth was non-existent.

That bad decisions remained because constructive criticism was not allowed.

That this practice was embraced and enforced by multiple employees, presumably those holding positions of power.

That trust was non-existent and that the organization suffered in an attempt to rebuild the team to any significant degree.

Here is Harris? quote:
?I think we need to create a relationship in which we are very comfortable giving each other feedback?. I also think we need to create relationships up and down the organization in which we are receiving a lot of feedback about some of the decisions we?re making and the culture we?re creating. If we can do that, if we can establish that trust up and down our front office, our ideas are going to be a little bit better, our decisions are going to be a little bit better, our in-game strategy is going to be a little bit better.?

Given this statement, to what extent did this type of corporate culture contribute to the Tigers? inability to progress in successfully rebuilding?
How much did the Tigers' suppression of feedback factor into their inability to successfully rebuild?

1. It was a huge factor.

2. It mattered to some extent.

3. It wasn't a factor at all.

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October 23 in Tigers and mlb history:

1910: Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Jack Coombs wins his third game of the World Series, beating the Chicago Cubs, 7 - 2, as the Athletics take the championship in five games. Eddie Collins helps Coombs with three hits, including two doubles.

1920: The Chicago grand jury indictment adds the names of former featherweight boxing champ Abe Attell and baseball players Hal Chase and Bill Burns as go-betweens in the 1919 World Series scandal. Ed Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Lefty Williams and Happy Felsch sign confessions, which they will later recant.

1923: Babe Ruth makes a postseason appearance in a New York Giants uniform as the Giants defeat the minor league Baltimore Orioles, 9 - 0. Ruth hits a home run over the right field roof at the Polo Grounds. The game is a benefit for destitute former Giants owner John Day.

1931: Hall of Famer Jim Bunning was born in Southgate, KY.
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1935: Gabby Hartnett is selected by the Baseball Writers Association of America as the National League MVP, with Dizzy Dean the runner-up.

1945: Branch Rickey announces the signing of Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers organization. The 26-year old Negro League star will be the first black player to play in Organized Baseball since 1899 and the first in the majors since 1884, paving the way for integration.
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1961: The Detroit Tigers released Frank House.

1970: The Detroit Tigers sent Wayne Redmond to the Philadelphia Phillies as part of a conditional deal.

1973: The Tigers trade veteran infielder Dick McAuliffe to the Boston Red Sox for outfielder Ben Oglivie.
McAuliffe had spent 14 seasons with Detroit, serving as an important part of the team as the Tigers advanced to the World Series in 1968 and 1972 Playoffs.
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1974: The Cubs trade sweet-swinging Billy Williams, a fixture at Wrigley Field for 16 years, to the Oakland Athletics for second baseman Manny Trillo and pitchers Darold Knowles and Bob Locker.

1979: Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minnesota marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches to close a gash in his lip. The fight will result in Martin being fired as Yankees manager for the second time.

1983: Keith Comstock of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1986: At Fenway Park, Bruce Hurst's complete game victory gives the Boston Red Sox a 4 - 2 win and 3-2 lead in the World Series against the New York Mets. Hurst scatters 10 hits with one walk and six strikeouts.

1987: Dickie Noles returned to the Chicago Cubs by the Detroit Tigers as part of earlier loan.

1991: The Kansas City Royals selected Rusty Meacham off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1993: In one of the most dramatic endings in World Series history, Joe Carter hits a three-run, 9th-inning home run off Mitch Williams for an 8 - 6 win and Toronto's second straight World Championship. Paul Molitor, who hits .500 (12 for 24), is named Series MVP. Following the 2010 season, a panel of experts at the MLB Network will vote this game the 14th greatest of the past fifty years.
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1998: Geronimo Berroa of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1998: Davey Johnson is hired as the manager of the Dodgers. The former Mets, Reds and Orioles skipper has finished first with every team he has managed, but will fail to do so in Los Angeles.

2013: The Red Sox jump on the Cardinals early, scoring five runs in the first two innings, to cruise to an 8 - 1 win in Game 1 of the World Series. Mike Napoli hits a bases-clearing double in the 1st and the Sox add two more runs in the 2nd in spite of Carlos Beltran robbing David Ortiz of a grand slam with a great catch. Jon Lester pitches 7 1/3 scoreless innings for the win while Adam Wainwright takes the loss.

2018: While two of the best pitchers in the majors face off on the mound in Game 1 of the World Series in Clayton Kershaw and Chris Sale, the contest turns out to be a high-scoring affair, with Boston prevailing, 8 - 4, over the Dodgers. Andrew Benintendi has 4 hits to lead the Red Sox attack while Eduardo Nunez hits a key three-run homer in the 7th and Craig Kimbrel closes out the win.

2019: The Nationals win their record-tying eighth straight game this postseason by crushing Houston, 11 - 3, in Game 2 of the 2019 World Series. After both teams score twice in the 1st, the game settles down with no more scoring until the 7th, when Kurt Suzuki homers off Justin Verlander to start a six-run inning that gets the rout going. Stephen Strasburg is the winner.

2020: The Dodgers win Game 3 of the World Series, 6 - 2 over the Rays, behind an outstanding performance by Walker Buehler who gives up just 1 run on 3 hits and strikes out 10 in 6 innings. Justin Turner hits a 1st-inning homer off Charlie Morton, and the Dodgers keep adding to their lead with clutch hits, scoring five of their six runs with two outs.

Tigers players birthdays:

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Billy Sullivan 1940-1941.

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Jim Bunning 1955-1963.

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Dwight Lowry 1984, 1986-1987.

Tigers players who passed away:

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Chick Shorten 1919-1921.

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DEEPER DISCUSSIONS.
Totally Tigers

There are rumors that the Tigers are discussing alterations to Comerica Park. It?s been an ongoing issue for years even after some fences were moved in 2003.

Players from all teams have complained over the years. And a recent study confirmed that Comerica leads all other MLB parks in ?lost HRs? ? fly balls that would have been home runs in all the other ballparks.

The issue revolves around the expanse on either side of deep centerfield called the power alleys. The measurements for those areas exceed all other ballparks.

Power alleys are where most home runs are hit but at Comerica, they often end up being fly balls.

Comerica was originally built to favor pitchers. But in turn, it also required that outfielders be strong defensively and speedy.

If the dimensions should be changed, it would help the team defensively as well as help boost offense. The Tigers play half their game at Comerica and they need every little bit of help they can get. Pitchers would still have an advantage, albeit not as much.

Should the Tigers reconfigure Comerica?s dimensions in order to modify the problematic power alleys?

Today?s blog addresses this dilemma and allows readers to share their thoughts in more detail. And hopefully, to actively engage with others by responding to their posts and creating back-and-forth discussion threads. The more the merrier!

For this one blog only, you?ve got 6 sentences max to share your thoughts.
Of course, you can respond to as many other readers as you want.

TT will supply the ammunition. One thought-provoking question. Several options provided. One hard choice to be selected. One vote.
Ready?

Should the Tigers modify Comerica's dimensions?

1. Yes

2. No

VOTE
 
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