November 16 in Tigers and mlb history:
1887: The Joint Rules Committee does away with the four-strike rule and with the scoring of walks as hits. Five balls for a walk remains the rule.
1912: Detroit Tigers infielder Red Corriden is sold to the Cincinnati Reds.
1914: Frank Leland, pioneer black ballplayer and founder of the Leland Giants, dies in Chicago after a brief illness. He was 45.
1916: Rube Foster of the Red Sox no-hits the Yankees 2 - 0, for the first no-hitter in Fenway Park, beating Bob Shawkey, 2 - 0. Harry Hooper leads the offense with three hits. Red Sox president Joseph Lannin hands Rube a $100 bonus and each of his Sox teammates receive a gold-handled pocket knife engraved with the date.
1941: Byron 'Whizzer' White scores 2 touchdowns for the Lions, including a 71-yard reception, in a 21-17 win over the Eagles at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium.
White was later appointed as a Supreme Court justice by President Kennedy. He was succeeded by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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1950: Major League Presidents Ford Frick (American League) and Will Harridge (National League) vote to deposit $950,000 received for World Series TV and radio rights into the player's pension fund.
1950: The St. Louis Browns drafted Johnny Bero from the Detroit Tigers in the 1950 rule 5 draft.
1950: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bud Souchock from the Chicago White Sox in the 1950 rule 5 draft.
1952: Bobby Layne scores a touchdown run & throws a touchdown pass, a 65-yard strike to Cloyce Box, in a 43-13 win over the Dallas Texans at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium. The Lions would go on to win the NFL championship.
1954: The Chicago Cubs trade future Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner to the Cleveland Indians for pitcher Sam Jones, minor league outfielder Gale Wade, and $60,000 in cash. Kiner will hit 18 home runs for the Indians in 1955, his final major league season.
1960: National League batting champion Dick Groat is named league Most Valuable Player, outpolling Pirates teammate Don Hoak, 276-162.
1962: Tigers rally for 3 runs in 8th to win 4-3 in exhibition in Sendai, Japan.
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1964: The Detroit Tigers signed Billy Hoeft as a free agent.
1966: Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente wins the National League MVP Award, beating out Los Angeles Dodgers pitching ace Sandy Koufax by ten votes. Clemente batted .317 with 29 home runs and 119 RBI during the regular season. Koufax posted a 27-9 record with 317 strikeouts and a 1.73 ERA.
1976: The California Angels sign free agent Don Baylor. He will be become the first Angels player in franchise history to win the MVP Award, in 1979.
1977: Minnesota Twins first baseman Rod Carew is named American League Most Valuable Player. The future Hall of Famer led the AL in batting average (.388), runs (128), hits (239) and triples (16).
1988: The Detroit Tigers released Ray Knight.
1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Kevin Baez as a free agent.
1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Derrick White as a free agent.
1995: The Cincinnati Reds traded a player to be named later, Dave Tuttle (minors) and C.J. Nitkowski to the Detroit Tigers for David Wells. The Cincinnati Reds sent Mark Lewis (November 16, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
1999: Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez is named the unanimous winner of the American League Cy Young Award. He led AL pitchers in wins (23), strikeouts (313) and ERA (2.07). Martinez also won the award in the National League in 1997, just the third pitcher to do so in both leagues.
2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Julio Santana as a free agent.
2001: A Minnesota judge issues a temporary injunction that orders the Twins to play their full home schedule and prevents owner Carl Pohlad from selling the team to anyone who will move it. While this ruling will be appealed, it will be difficult to get the injunction overturned in enough time to contract the Twins for a potential 2002 season.
2005: Broadcaster Ralph Edwards, dies today in Los Angeles, CA at age 92; he was considered the voice that launched the Jimmy Fund, the children's cancer-fighting charity long favored by the Boston Red Sox.
2005: Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz, who was the runner-up in the American League Most Valuable Player voting this week, is second-to-none in the voting for the top two awards given by the Boston chapter of the BBWAA. Ortiz will be given the Ted Williams Award as the top hitter in the major leagues, along with the "Yawkey Award" as the Red Sox MVP at the Boston BBWAA's annual dinner on January 12, 2006. Ortiz hit .300 with 47 home runs and a major league-leading 148 RBI this season. He also had 34 RBI that put his team ahead, the most in the AL, and 8 RBI from the seventh inning on that gave Boston the lead for good.
2005: The Detroit Tigers signed Luis Marte as an amateur free agent.
2006: The Detroit Tigers signed Sean Casey as a free agent.
2010: Roy Halladay wins the National League Cy Young Award in his first season with the Philadelphia Phillies after leading the NL in wins, complete games, shutouts and innings pitched, throwing a perfect game, and, for good measure, adding a no-hitter in the postseason. He is the fifth pitcher to win the award in both leagues, having been honored in the American League in 2003.
2011: The Manager of the Year Awards go to Kirk Gibson of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League and the Tampa Bay Rays' Joe Maddon in the American League. Gibson wins in his first full season as a skipper, while it's a second time for Maddon to receive the award.
2011: The Detroit Tigers signed Omir Santos as a free agent.
2012: The Tigers sign free agent outfielder Torii Hunter to a two-year, $26 million deal. Hunter will play right field and help the team to two division titles while becoming a popular veteran leader on the club.
2016: Winners of the Cy Young Awards are announced today. Max Scherzer of Washington becomes the 6th pitcher to win the award in both leagues when he prevails in the vote in the National League after going 20-7 during the season.
In the American League, Boston's Rick Porcello, who went 22-4, is the winner over Justin Verlander of the Tigers in a very close race due to two Shithead Tampa sportswriters who leave Verlander completely off their ballot.
Porcello becomes the fourth member of the Tigers' 2014 rotation to win a Cy Young.
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2017: Giancarlo Stanton wins the 2017 National League Most Valuable Player Award over Joey Votto in a very close vote, 302 points to 300, with both players receiving 10 of 30 first-place votes. The result in the American League is not as disputed, as Jos? Altuve wins easily.
2018: For the first time since 2005, the Tigers did not have a player or manager receive a yearly award vote from the Baseball Writers? Association of America.
2021: The Detroit Tigers signed Eduardo Rodriguez as a free agent.
2022: Both winners of the Cy Young Award this year are chosen by unanimous vote. In the American League, Justin Verlander wins the award for the third time by going 18-4, 1.75 after missing the entire 2021 season while recovering from Tommy John surgery. In the National League, Sandy Alcantara is chosen after posting a 2.28 ERA and 6 complete games, the highest total in years.
2023: The voting for the
MVP Award results in two unanimous selections. In the
American League,
Shohei Ohtani wins for the second time, after leading the circuit in homers in spite of missing the final month of the season with an injury, while incidentally also being the best pitcher on the
Angels. In the
National League,
Ronald Acuña Jr. of the
Braves, who had a
40-40 season and led the league in a half-dozen offensive categories, is honored.
2023: By unanimous vote,
MLB owners approve the
relocation of the
Oakland Athletics to
Las Vegas, NV, to be effective in 2028.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Paul_Foytack
Paul Foytack Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Paul Foytack 1953, 1955-1963.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Frank_Bolling
Frank Bolling Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Frank Bolling 1954, 1956-1960.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Harry_Chiti
Harry Chiti Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Harry Chiti 1960-1961.
Tigers players who passed away:
Fred House Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Fred House 1913.
Hugh High Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Hugh High 1913-1914.
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