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November 25 in Tigers and mlb history:

1914: Hall of Fame outfielder Joe DiMaggio is born in Martinez, California. The son of Italian immigrants, DiMaggio will make his major league debut in 1936 after starring in the Pacific Coast League and will spend his entire big league playing career with the New York Yankees.

1930: The Sporting News, acting to fill the Most Valuable Player void, announces its selection of New York Giants first baseman Bill Terry as the MVP in the National League, and Washington Senators shortstop Joe Cronin in the American League.

1941: With only three years of major league experience, shortstop Lou Boudreau is named as the Cleveland Indians' manager. At the age of 24 years, four months, and eight days, Boudreau becomes the youngest skipper to pilot a team in the 20th century.

1944: Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first Major League Baseball Commissioner, dies of a heart attack at age 78 in Chicago. Landis had ruled over baseball since November 1920 in the wake of the Black Sox scandal, and wielded authority perhaps unparalleled in any other industry. Landis had entered the hospital on October 2nd. He will be elected to the Hall of Fame on December 9th in a special ballot.

1949: Ted Williams, who lost the Triple Crown when his batting average was .0002 below that of George Kell, wins the American League MVP Award vote in a landslide. Phil Rizzuto and Joe Page finish second and third in the voting.

1952: The St. Louis Cardinals seek payment from the New York Giants for two televised games in an effort to determine the TV and radio rights of visiting teams for revenue.

1958: The Baseball Writers Association of America names Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks as the National League Most Valuable Player. Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants is the runner-up.

1981: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first relief pitcher ever to win the AL Most Valuable Player Award, edging Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics, 319-308. Fingers saved 28 games while posting an outstanding 1.04 ERA.

1996: The Detroit Tigers signed Denny Harriger as a free agent.

2002: The Detroit Tigers traded Randall Simon to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a player to be named later and Adrian Burnside (minors). The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Roberto Novoa (December 16, 2002) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2002: The Boston Red Sox hire 28-year-old Theo Epstein as their new general manager. Epstein, a life-time Red Sox fan who grew up about a mile away from Fenway Park, becomes the youngest GM in major league history.

2004: After spending $67 million to acquire its former president's shares of the Seattle Mariners, Nintendo's U.S. subsidiary now owns more than 50 percent of the franchise. Due to the presence of superstar Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle is one of the favorite major league teams in Japan.

2005: The cost-cutting Florida Marlins finalize their big trade with the New York Mets, sending slugger Carlos Delgado to New York for first baseman Mike Jacobs and prospects pitcher Yusmeiro Petit and infielder Grant Psomas. The Mets will also receive $7 million from the Marlins to help cover the $48 million Delgado is owed over the next three seasons.

2005: The Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago White Sox complete their deal that sends slugger Jim Thome and cash to Chicago for center fielder Aaron Rowand. Philadelphia also gets two minor leaguers.

2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Mike Hessman as a free agent.

2014: Ezequiel Carrera of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2015: The Detroit Tigers signed Jake Brigham as a free agent.

2017: The Detroit Tigers signed Chad Huffman as a free agent.

2019: The Detroit Tigers purchased Dario Agrazal from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
2019: The Detroit Tigers released Drew VerHagen.

Tigers players and announcers birthdays:

Ray Narleski 1959.

Bob Rathbun Tigers radio announcer 1992-94.

Wayne Redmond 1965, 1969.

Don Leshnock 1972.

Randy Veres 1996.

Octavio Dotel 2012-2013.

Sandy Baez 2018-2019.

Tigers players who passed away:

Charlie Carr 1903-1904.

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MONDAY MUSINGS.
Totally Tigers
 
November 26 in Tigers and mlb history:

1908: Hall of Famer Lefty Gomez was born this day in Rodeo, CA.

1935: The National League takes over the bankrupt last-place Boston Braves franchise after several failed attempts to buy the club. The league takes over only temporarily, until matters can be straightened out.

1948: National League president Ford Frick steps in and pays $350 for funeral services, including the cost of a coffin, for the unclaimed body of Hack Wilson. The former slugger, who had died probably of alcohol abuse a few days earlier in a Baltimore hospital, is identified only as a white male.

1950: The Gillette Safety Razor Co. signs a six-year deal, worth an estimated $6 million, with Major League Baseball for the TV-radio rights for the World Series.

1958: The American League MVP is Boston Red Sox slugger Jackie Jensen, winning over Yankees pitcher Bob Turley and Indians outfielder Rocky Colavito.

1960: The relocated American League team in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul chooses the nickname "Twins" to represent its franchise. The Twins recently moved from Washington, DC, where they were known as the "Senators."

1961: The Professional Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball. Only National League supervisor of umpires Cal Hubbard votes in favor.

1962: The Houston Colt .45's drafted Conrad Cardinal from the Detroit Tigers in the 1962 first-year draft.
1962: The Detroit Tigers drafted Tommy Matchick from the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1962 first-year draft.
1962: The Minnesota Twins drafted Rich Reese from the Detroit Tigers in the 1962 first-year draft.

1962: The Baltimore Orioles traded Whitey Herzog and Gus Triandos to the Detroit Tigers for Dick Brown.

1962: American League batting champ Pete Runnels (.326) is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the Houston Colt .45s for outfielder Roman Mejias. After that, the Texas native will only hit .252 in Houston next season and will retire in May of 1964.

1963: Second baseman Pete Rose is a landslide winner of National League Rookie of the Year honors, taking 17 of 20 votes. Rose becomes the second Cincinnati Reds player to win the award, after Frank Robinson.

1974: Catfish Hunter meets with Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley in the American Arbitration Association office in New York City for a hearing to determine the validity of Hunter's breach-of-contract claim. Hunter contends that Finley failed to pay $50,000, half of Hunter's salary, to a life insurance fund. The case will go to arbitration.

1975: Boston Red Sox center fielder Fred Lynn becomes the first rookie ever to be named American League Most Valuable Player. Lynn, who batted .331 with 21 home runs, 105 RBI, and league-leading figures in runs (103), doubles (47), and slugging percentage (.566), helped Boston to the American League East title. He also won Rookie of the Year honors.

1980: Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt, who hit .286 with career highs of 48 home runs and 121 RBI, is a unanimous choice as National League Most Valuable Player.

1990: The Detroit Tigers signed John Shelby as a free agent.

1996: Less than three weeks after major league owners voted 18-12 against ratification of baseball's new collective bargaining agreement, owners vote again and this time approve it by a vote of 26-4. The landmark agreement brings interleague play to the regular season for the first time, as well as revenue sharing among owners and a payroll tax on players.

1996: The Detroit Tigers signed Marino Santana as a free agent.

1999: Arbitrator Alan Symonette rejects the owners' attempt to dismiss the umpires' grievance, giving the 22 umps booted as a result of last season's disastrous mass resignation strategy a chance to get their jobs back. Symonette will hear the grievance beginning December 13th.

2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Andy Barkett as a free agent.

2004: Receiving 21 of the 28 first-place votes, Vladimir Guerrero (.337, 39 HR, 126 RBI) wins the American League MVP Award. The 28-year old former Expos outfielder signed as a free agent with the Angels, after the Mets refused to guarantee his salary based on advice from their medical staff.

2009: New York Yankees Public Address announcer Bob Sheppard officially retires at the age of 99. Known as the "Voice of God," Sheppard had been the Yankees PA announcer from 1951 to 2007 before his deteriorating health forced him to step down. He briefly returned in 2008 to announce the Yankees lineup for the final game at the old Yankee Stadium.

2010: the Tigers sign free agent DH/catcher Victor Martinez to a four-year, $50 million contract. Martinez is a switch-hitting career .300 batter and a four-time All-Star.

2012: The Detroit Tigers signed John Lindsey as a free agent.
2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Matt Tuiasosopo as a free agent.

2012: Postseason shares as announced, and the members of the World Champions Giants receive a record $377,022.64 each for their role in winning the title. Even discredited OF Melky Cabrera, suspended after a positive test for PEDs and kicked off the team before its run to the title, gets a full share because of a rule in the collective bargaining agreement. Members of the Detroit Tigers receive $284,274.50 each, the second-highest total for a runner-up.

2018: The notoriously young Braves, who featured two of the three youngest regulars in the majors in 2018 in Ronald Acuna and Ozzie Albies, add some experience in planning a run for the big prize in 2019 by signing veteran free agents Josh Donaldson and Brian McCann to one-year deals. The 35-year-old McCann is a native of Georgia who spent his first nine seasons with the Braves, making this a true homecoming.

Tigers players birthdays:

John Kerr 1923-1924.

Richie Hebner 1980-1982.

Mike Moore 1993-1995.

Corey Knebel 2014.

Josh Smoker 2018.

Tigers players who passed away:

Hub Walker 1931, 1935, 1945.

Tom Haller 1972.

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GIVING THANKS – Part One.
Totally Tigers

We’re giving thanks this week. And if you think about it, Detroit Tiger fans have been hard-pressed to find things to be grateful about until this year.
But all of that is going to change starting today and running through tomorrow.
We’re going to look back over the past year and think about what we were grateful to see about the Tigers.
But there’s a hitch – as there always is here at Totally Tigers. You didn’t think we’d let you skate by and mail it in, did you?
Today, we’d like for you to consider this question:
What 1 episode, development, goal, vision, etc. were you most grateful to see during this 2024 season?
We’re asking that you not name people today. That exercise will happen tomorrow.

We’re looking for a singular event, a progression of some type, the checking off of boxes, reaching a goal, etc. It can be about the franchise overall, a department, offensive/pitching/defense achievement, etc.
Please identify the event/area and tell us in 3 sentences or less why you picked it for giving thanks.
 

Days of Roar Tigers Podcast: Detroit Tigers catcher Jake Rogers joins Days of Roar; Tarik Skubal wins 2024 AL Cy Young. 60 minutes.

Detroit Tigers catcher Jake Rogers joins the "Days of Roar" podcast to chat with Evan and Mark about Tarik Skubal winning the 2024 American League Cy Young Award. Rogers also talks about calling pitches and making in-game adjustments, his relationship with manager A.J. Hinch, being named a Gold Glove finalist, why "pitching chaos" worked in 2024 and his excitement for the 2025 season.
Aside from Rogers, Evan and Mark tip their cap to Hinch for finishing third in AL Manager of the Year Award voting and break down the roster moves made by the Tigers, which included pitching prospect Tyler Mattison.
 
Alex Bregman is a good fit for the Tigers.
The veteran third baseman remains a very good all-around player as he finally reaches free agency.
BYBTB
 
November 27 in Tigers and mlb history:

1910: The touring Detroit Tigers, with Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford in the lineup, play an exhibition game in Havana, Cuba. With George Mullin pitching, the Tigers beat Almendares, 4 - 0.

1941: Joe DiMaggio is named American League Most Valuable Player. His 56-game hitting streak edges out Ted Williams and his .406 batting average for the award (291 points for DiMaggio and 254 for Williams).

1947: Triple Crown winner Ted Williams (.343, 32 HR,162 RBI) is edged out by Joe DiMaggio (.315, 20, 97) for the American League MVP Award by one point. One BBWAA member fails to include Williams anywhere on his ballot.

1950: The Boston Red Sox sign veteran shortstop Lou Boudreau to a two-year contract worth an estimated $150,000. Boudreau, a player-manager for the Cleveland Indians, had asked Cleveland to give him his unconditional release after 13 years with the club.

1953: Cleveland Indians third baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named the American League Most Valuable Player with a record 336 votes. In the National League, Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella received the honor.

1955: The Detroit Tigers drafted Joe Presko from the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1955 rule 5 draft.
1955: The Detroit Tigers drafted Hal Woodeshick from the New York Giants in the 1955 minor league draft.
1955: The Brooklyn Dodgers drafted Ken Rowe from the Detroit Tigers in the 1955 minor league draft.

1956: Don Newcombe (27 wins, 3.06 ERA), pitcher for the National League pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, becomes the first Cy Young Award winner. Only one pitcher will be selected each season for this prestigious pitching award until 1967 when each league will name a winner.

1961: The Chicago White Sox again trade fan favorite Minnie Mi?oso, this time to the St. Louis Cardinals for OF/1B Joe Cunningham.

1962: The Detroit Tigers traded Ron Nischwitz and Gordon Seyfried to the Cleveland Indians for Bubba Phillips.

1963: Chicago White Sox pitcher Gary Peters edges teammate third baseman Pete Ward and Minnesota Twins outfielder Jimmie Hall for American League Rookie of the Year honors.

1971: Happy Birthday to Hall of Famer Ivan Rodriguez born this day in Manat?, Puerto Rico.

1974: Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for two years as a result of Steinbrenner's conviction for illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon and others.

1981: The Detroit Tigers trade OF Steve Kemp to the Chicago White Sox for OF Chet Lemon.

1984: The American League Gold Glove team is announced, and it is made up of the same nine players as the 1983 team: catcher Lance Parrish, first baseman Eddie Murray, second baseman Lou Whitaker, third baseman Buddy Bell, shortstop Alan Trammell, outfielders Dwight Evans, Dave Winfield and Dwayne Murphy, and pitcher Ron Guidry.
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1995: The Free Press shows the proposed site for the new Tigers ballpark at Grand Circus & Second.
The initial proposed site for a new @tigers downtown ballpark would have placed it west of Woodward...eliminating Cass Ave from Adams St to I-75 in the process.

1997: Hall of Famer Buck Leonard dies at the age of 90. Regarded as one of the greatest players in Negro Leagues history, Leonard starred for the powerhouse Homestead Grays, who won nine consecutive pennants. Leonard consistently ranked among the league leaders in home runs and won a batting title in 1948.

2000: The Detroit Tigers released Erik Hiljus.

2011: New Houston Astros owner Jim Crane decides to clean house in the front office with the team coming off the worst season in franchise history. Both team President Tal Smith and GM Ed Wade get the axe. The new President is George Postolos, while assistant GM Dave Gottfried takes over for Wade on an interim basis while a search for a permanent replacement begins.

2012: Marvin Miller, who served as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966 to 1983, dies at 95. A veteran union organizer from the steel industry, Miller made the union highly powerful, leading to the first collective bargaining agreement in professional sports in 1968 and other breakthroughs such as salary arbitration and free agency in the 1970s.
These advances required a number of strikes, which made Miller a vilified figure among owners. Lingering bitterness explains while Miller failed to secure election to the Hall of Fame by a small margin in recent years and was finally voted into the HOF posthumously.

Tigers players birthdays:

Bob Schultz 1955.

Jason Beverlin 2002.

Ivan 'Pudge' Rodriguez 2004-2008.

Tigers players who passed away:

Babe Herman 1937.

Eddie Mayo 1944-1948.

Bill Connelly 1950.

Baseball Reference
 
GIVING THANKS – Part Two.
Totally Tigers

We’re continuing to give thanks this week for the Detroit Tigers 2024 season. Yes, it’s a 2-day event because we’re trying to catch up on the good times after so many, many years of suffering.
Yesterday, you gave thanks for an individual event, goal reached or development achievement.
Today, we’re asking you to name names.
What Tiger individuals are you most thankful for this past season?
They can be players, managers, coaches, Front Office personnel or department heads. Heck, it can even be the owner if so inclined.
You can select 1- 3 people, no more. And give us 3 sentences total to explain your choice.
 
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