September 14 in Tigers and mlb history:
1869: Hall of Famer Kid Nichols was born this day in Kansas City, MO.
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1900: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants pull off the first triple play of the 20th century. With Chicago's Johnny Kling behind the plate, Jack Doyle, George Davis and Kid Gleason do the deed. It'll be 10 years before another trifecta is pulled off in the National League.
1901: Boston's Cy Young records his 30th win of the year, beating the visiting Washington Nationals, 12 - 1.
1905: Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers engage in a fist fight on the field during an exhibition game in Washington, IN, because Evers took a taxi to the park, leaving his teammates in the hotel lobby. The pair will not speak to each other ever again.
1910: Detroit rookie Dave Skeels, just 17 years old, make his first and only ML appearance, surrendering eight runs on nine hits and four walks in six innings, but comes away with a win. He finishes the day and his ML career with an ERA of 12.00.
1914: After being ejected for swearing, Johnny Evers claims he was talking to the ball and not to umpire Mal Eason, but the Braves' shortstop is still suspended for three days.
1915: Babe Ruth fires a two-hitter, as the Red Sox beat the White Sox, 2 - 1, for their 7th win in a row. Ruth has two of Boston's three hits. Boston will win four of five in the series with Chicago.
1918: Only four days after winning the World Series, the "Boston Red Sox" play the Hilldale Club, one of the top colored ball clubs in the country, in an exhibition game in Darby, PA. While the Red Sox include only three actual members of the World Championship club - Joe Bush, Amos Strunk and Wally Schang - the balance is made up of current and recent major leaguers, so it is actually quite a good team. Hilldale wins the game by forfeit when the Red Sox refuse to play the bottom of the 9th while holding a 4 - 3 lead. This marks the only time in Red Sox history that they will play a colored opponent, something that was relatively common for most other major league franchises.
1921: Washington's Walter Johnson gives up three hits but still faces just 27 batters in edging the Browns 1 - 0. Following two singles in the 4th, George Sisler's line drive is turned into a triple play. Jack Tobin singles in the 7th, but Johnson picks him off. Tobin will set an American League record this year with 179 singles, a mark that Sam Rice will top in 1925.
1923: Red Sox first baseman George Burns completes an unassisted triple play against the Indians as he gathers in a Frank Brower line drive, tags Rube Lutzke coming from first, and beats Riggs Stephenson back to second.
1924: Hours after beating the Tigers in Detroit, Walter Johnson receives word he's been elected American League MVP with 55 points. White Sox 2B Eddie Collins is a distant 2nd. He was runner-up to Babe Ruth last year.
1925: The Detroit Tigers traded Everett Spikes (minors), Bob Jones, Dutch Leonard, Buck Redfern and cash and 3 players to be named to Vernon (PCL) for Jack Warner.
1935: The Yankees split with the American League-leading Tigers winning 2 - 1 and losing 5 - 1. Hank Greenberg, leading the AL in hitting at .346, is 0 for the afternoon, with five strikeouts. "The hooting and jeering which some of the fans turned loose against Hank wasn't much of a tribute to the sportsmanship of his home town" (New York American Daily News).
1936: Pittsburgh's Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's modern National League record, reaching 200 hits for the 7th time.
1938: The Brooklyn Dodgers purchased Don Ross from the Detroit Tigers.
1938: The Brooklyn Dodgers selected Ray Hayworth off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1940: The United States, Hawaii, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico meet in the 3rd annual World Amateur Baseball Championship tourney, the first championship series to feature more than 3 participants. Cuba, the host country, is the victor for the 2nd consecutive year. The initial tourney had been held in England in 1938 and was also won by the host country, Great Britain.
1941: Satchel Paige pitches a 6-hit complete game for the Kansas City Monarchs against the Chicago American Giants at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium, in Game 1 of a doubleheader that draws over 34,000 fans.
1942: In the Negro League World Series, Leon Day, pitching for the Homestead Grays, fans 12 in beating Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Monarchs, 4 - 1, in Game 4. The Monarchs protest, contending that Day and 3 other players were picked up from other teams. Day's win is disallowed, and the Monarchs sweep the 4 games.
1947: Tigers Vic Wertz hits for the Cycle during a 16-6 victory over the Washington Senators. Wertz' cycle: 3B (2nd), 1B (4th), HR (6th), 2B (7th).
1950: In Detroit, Vic Raschi posts his 20th win of the season to give New York a hard-fought 7 - 5 win. Raschi walks in two runs in the opening inning as Detroit tallies four runs, but New York comes back as Joe DiMaggio cracks his 29th home run and Johnny Mize follows a walk to Hank Bauer with his 10th homer. New York takes over first place by a half game.
1953: The Detroit Tigers signed Bob Swift as a free agent.
1954: Willie Mays hits a 1st inning double and scores the only run in a 1 - 0 win over the Cards. It is Johnny Antonelli's 21st win of the year. Mays's hit is his 82nd extra-base hit, breaking Mel Ott's team record.
1954: Frank Lary makes his major league debut. Lary would pitch 11 seasons with the Tigers and make 2 All-Star teams. Lary's nicknames were "Mule" and the "Yankee Killer". He had a 28 and 13 career record vs. new york and in the late 1950's and was the last pitcher to win 7 games vs. one team (new york) in a season (154 game schedule).
1955: Herb Score of the Indians breaks Grover Cleveland Alexander's rookie record of 235 strikeouts. He finishes the season with 245.
1957: The Detroit Tigers purchased Bill Taylor from the New York Giants.
1958: The Yankees win their 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel, winning Game One against the A's, 5 - 3. This ties Casey for first with Connie Mack for the most American League pennants won. New York completes the sweep with a 12 - 7, 14-inning win in game 2. Virgil Trucks in his last season allows two hits over the last six innings for the win.
1963: Willie Horton hits his first career home run, a pinch-hit 2-run shot to tie the game in the 8th inning. He improves to 2-for-2 with a walk in his first three major league plate appearances.
1968: The Tigers rallied in 9th to beat the A's 5 - 4. Denny McLain is the first thirty-game winner since Dizzy Dean reached the milestone in 1934.
1974: Graig Nettles homers for the Yankees in the first inning, and brother Jim Nettles homers for the Tigers in the 2nd. This is the second time that the two brothers have homered in the same game for different teams, having done it on June 11, 1972, when Graig was with Cleveland and Jim with Minnesota. Graig's team wins, 10 - 7.
1975: The Red Sox top the Brewers, 8 - 6, as Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's 47-year-old record by playing in his 242nd game as a teenager.
1982: Richie Hebner and Bill Madlock hit grand slams to lead the Pirates to a 15 - 5 rout of the Cubs.
1986: Bo Jackson slugs his first major league home run - a 475-foot blast believed to be the longest to date at Royals Stadium - as Kansas City downs Seattle, 10 - 3.
1987: Alan Trammell goes 3-for-4 with a double, Tigers win 3 - 0 over the red sox to stay tied for first place in the division.
1990: Mariner Ken Griffey, Sr. and his son, Ken Griffey, Jr., become the first father and son to hit homers in the same major league game. The back-to-back blasts are given up by Angel hurler Kirk McCaskill.
1990: Oakland's Dave Stewart wins his 20th game of the season, 9 - 1 over the Twins to become the first pitcher since Jim Palmer (1975-1978) to post four straight 20-game seasons.
1991: In the Tigers' 6 - 4 win over the Brewers, Detroit's Cecil Fielder hits a 502-foot home run, which is believed to be the first ball ever hit out of Milwaukee's County Stadium, off Dan Plesac. The ball lands in the back of a truck driven by Gary Schumacher, who doesn't stop until he is near Madison, WI.
1994: The remainder of the baseball season is canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig after 34 days of the players' strike. There will be no World Series for the first time since 1904.
1995: The Kansas City Royals traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Juan Samuel. The Kansas City Royals sent Phil Hiatt (September 14, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
1998: The White Sox and Tigers combine for 41 hits and tie a major league record by using 18 pitchers in the Sox' 17-16 win in 12 innings at Tiger Stadium.
2003: The Tigers lose their 110th game, 7 - 2 to the royals, breaking the franchise record set by the 1996 Tigers: first team to lose 110 since the expansion Expos and Padres in 1969.
2011: The Tigers rally to tie the White Sox in the 9th inning on home runs by Ryan Raburn and Alex Avila, and win 6 - 5 on a Carlos Guillen RBI single in the 10th.
The rally gives the Tigers their 12th straight win, their third-longest winning streak in franchise history.
2012: Justin Verlander shuts out the indians 4 - 0.
2017: Jeimer Candelario hits his first home run as a Tiger in a loss to the white sox.
2020: New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and his partners agree to sell the team to hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen for $2.4 billion, the highest price ever for a North American professional sports franchise. A similar deal collapsed earlier this year over the Wilpons' insistence that they continue to make decisions for a period of five years after the sale, but there are no such strings attached this time, although the previous owners will retain a 5% minority share in the team.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
Icehouse Wilson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
George 'Icehouse' Wilson 1934.
Jerry Don Gleaton Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Jerry Don Gleaton 1990-1991, scout 1994-1996.
George Lombard Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
George Lombard 2002, coach 2021-present.
Delmon Young - BR Bullpen
Delmon Young Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Delmon Young 2011-2012.
Derek Law Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Derek Law 2022.
Andrew Vasquez Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Andrew Vasquez 2023.
Tigers players who passed away:
Jackie Tavener - BR Bullpen
Jackie Tavener Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Jackie Tavener 1921, 1925-1928.
Beau Bell Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Beau Bell 1939.
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