June 20th in Tigers and mlb history:
1905: A young woman sues the Giants for $500 for injury suffered when a foul ball hit her at a game at the Polo Grounds on September 3, 1904. Judge Chester B. McLaughlin dismisses the suit, ruling that patrons attend baseball games at their own risk.
1906: At Exposition Park, Honus Wagner clubs one of the longest hits in park history, but only makes it to third base. Rounding first, the Pirates player is clipped by 1B Kid Gleason, and Wagner limps his way to a triple. A courtesy runner, Harry Smith, scores for the Pirates on a fly and the Phils then generously allow Wagner to return to SS. But the injury will force him to miss three games.
1911: Ty Cobb breaks the American League hitting streak record with an infield single against Cleveland's Willie Mitchell. It is Cobb's 30th straight game with a hit. He adds two stolen bases to help Detroit win 8 - 3.
1914: The Tigers lose the services of Ty Cobb when he breaks his thumb in a fight with a butcher's clerk. Cobb will be out until August 13th.
1916: The Detroit Tigers selected Willie Mitchell off waivers from the Cleveland Indians.
1925: At Forbes Field, Max Carey becomes the first switch-hitter to hit for the cycle. The Pirate outfielder's performance helps Pittsburgh to bash Brooklyn, 21 - 5.
1932: Doc Cramer of the A's collects six hits in consecutive times at bat in a nine-inning game. Cramer will do this again in 1935, the only American League player to repeat the feat.
1934: The Tigers score three in the 11th to defeat the Senators 13 - 10.
Ex-Tiger Heinie Manush, leading the American League in hitting, has four hits and two homers as Washington collects 17 hits.
The Tigers get three-hit efforts each from Marv Owen, Mickey Cochrane, Charlie Gehringer and Hank Greenberg who also includes a homer. Elden Auker is the winner over Tommy Thomas.
1939: Tigers win the first night game ever played at Philadelphia' Shibe Park, 5-0. Tigers won't play a home night game for another 9 years.
1946: A Fortune magazine story gives some rare details of baseball finances, showing the Yankees had a revenue of $1.6 million and profit of $306,000, cut to $201,000 after minor league losses, the previous season. Of the gross income, $896,000 is from home ticket sales.
1948: Ralph Kiner hits home runs every Sunday for eight successive weeks in May and June. For the year he will hit 17 round trippers in 38 Sunday games.
1950: The New York Giants signed Willie Mays as an amateur free agent.
1953: The Detroit Tigers signed Bob Miller as an amateur free agent (bonus baby).
1956: At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles two Billy Hoeft pitches into the right CF bleachers, something no other player had done since the bleachers were built in the late 1930s. New York wins, 7 - 4.
1961: Al Kaline plays 3B for the first time in his illustrious career. His two hits and two RBIs lead the Tigers to a 5 - 4 win over the Senators.
Kaline will return to his customary spot in RF where he is already known as the pre-eminent Rightfielder in the history of the AL and play 3B just once more in his career in 1965.
1962: The Detroit Tigers signed Bill Faul as an amateur free agent.
1962: Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves has the team's only two hits in a 3 - 2 win against Willard Hunter of the New York Mets in a six-inning rain-shortened game. Aaron homers in the 3rd and 6th innings and drives in all three of the Braves' runs, becoming the first player in MLB history to have two homers as his team's only two hits in a game.
1965: In the opener of two in Kansas City, the Tigers rally from an 8-run deficit in the 2nd inning to win 12 - 8.
Al Kaline collects his 1,000th RBI with a 2-run single. Detroit loses the 2nd game to snap their 8-game win streak.
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1968: Denny McLain pitches a 3-hit complete game in the Tigers' 5-1 win over Boston at Tiger Stadium. Mickey Stanley goes 3-for-4 with a home run and a double.
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1970: Brooks Robinson's 2,000th major league hit is a big one - a 3-run homer off Washington's Joe Coleman in the 5th inning. The drive snaps a 2 - 2 tie, and the Orioles hang on for a 5 - 4 victory.
1978: Tigers win 4 - 3 over the blue jays on a Jason Thompson RBI double in the 13th inning. Toronto is defeated for the third consecutive game by a Canadian-born pitcher. The Blue Jays lose to John Hiller of Detroit, after having previously tasted defeat at the hands of Ferguson Jenkins and Reggie Cleveland of the Texas Rangers.
1980: Al Cowens charges the mound and brawls with Ed Farmer at Comiskey Park.
White Sox reliever Ed Farmer swears he will take criminal action against Detroit's Al Cowens following an on-field brawl in Chicago. Cowens hits a grounder to SS, and then charges the mound instead of running to first base. The action stems from an incident a year earlier when a Farmer pitch shattered Cowens's jaw. American League President Lee MacPhail will suspend Cowens for seven games. The Tigers win, 5 - 3, in 11 innings.
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1981: The Detroit Tigers signed Bernie Carbo as a free agent.
1982: Former Tiger Ben Oglivie hits 3 home runs against the Tigers.
1984: At Detroit, Yankee reliever Jose Rijo falls to 1-7 when he serves up a 2-out three-run homer to Howard Johnson in the 13th inning. Detroit wins 9 - 6. Alan Trammell, Lance Parrish and Chet Lemon also hit homers for the Tigers, who draw their 3rd straight 40,000+ crowd.
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1985: The Detroit Tigers signed Doug Flynn as a free agent.
1985: The Texas Rangers traded Frank Tanana to the Detroit Tigers for Duane James (minors).
1994: In a defeat to the Indians, the Tigers' string of 25 straight games of hitting a home run ends. The streak tied the major league record set by the 1941 New York Yankees.
1998: The Indians retire Bob Lemon's uniform number 21 prior to the team's 5 - 3 loss to the Yankees.
2000: Seven different Tigers hit homers in Detroit?s 18-6 rout of the Blue Jays at Toronto?s SkyDome. The homers come from Juan Encarnacion, Tony Clark (2), Juan Gonzalez, Bobby Higginson, Deivi Cruz, Robert Fick, and Rich Becker.
It?s just the fourth time in MLB history that as many as seven players hit homers in a game for one team.
2003: In his MLB debut with the Marlins, Miguel Cabrera hits a walk-off home run in the 11th inning.
2004: The Detroit Tigers released Jimmy Haynes.
2004: On Father's Day with his dad present, Ken Griffey, Jr. nails a 6th-inning fastball off Cardinal hurler Matt Morris over the right field wall at Busch Stadium for his 500th career home run. The Reds center fielder becomes the 20th major leaguer and the sixth-youngest (34) to reach the milestone.
2007: The Detroit Tigers purchased Anastacio Martinez from the Washington Nationals.
2007: The Detroit Tigers traded Wil Ledezma to the Atlanta Braves for Macay McBride.
2007: Magglio Ordonez goes 3-for-4 in the Tigers victory over the Nationals to push his batting average to .383, his high point in an incredible season. Ordonez will finish at .363 to win the batting title, and his 54 doubles also leads the American League.
2012: The Detroit Tigers released Eric Patterson.
2013: Tigers beat the Red Sox on a 2-run walk-off home run by Jhonny Peralta.
2016: Miguel Cabrera hit a moonshot and Justin Upton hit two homers, including a walk-off smash in the 12th in the Tigers' 8-7 win over the mariners.
2017: An incompetent and full of himself umpire Joe West becomes the third umpire in major league history to work 5,000 regular season games when he is behind the plate in a game between the Diamondbacks and Rockies. Neither team existed when he began his career in the National League back in 1976. His 40 seasons as an umpire are a record, and he trails only Bill Klem and Bruce Froemming for the total number of games; he will eventually pass them both.
2019: Phil Regan, who pitched for the Tigers in the early 1960s, is named Mets pitching coach, at age 82. Phil Regan, the Mets new pitching coach, has a resume that includes: Faced Ted Williams in a major league game.
Had a teammate (Eddie Yost) who debuted in 1944. Once saved a game for Sandy Koufax.
2021: The Detroit Tigers released Wilson Ramos.
2022: The Los Angeles Dodgers purchased Trayce Thompson from the Detroit Tigers.
2023: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Court upholds an earlier decision by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York that three former
minor league teams that were eliminated under the
2021 Minor League Reorganization cannot bring an
antitrust suit against
Major League Baseball. This is due to the exemption from the
Sherman Antitrust Act from which MLB has benefited since the Supreme Court's decision in the case
Federal Baseball Club v. National League, back in 1922. The plaintiffs are now expected to appeal to the Supreme Court, in order to attempt to have its century-old ruling reversed.
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Win Mercer 1902.
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Jim Delahanty 1909-1912.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Charlie Grover. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Charlie Grover 1913.
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Paul Bako 1998.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bobby Seay. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Bobby Seay 2006-2009.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Joe Staton. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Joe Staton 1972-1973.
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