December 25 in Tigers and mlb history:
1856: Pitcher James Francis (Pud) Galvin, a future Hall of Fame member, is born in St. Louis, Missouri. Galvin will win 364 games in a 15-year career, including two 46-win seasons.
1862: A crowd of 40,000 watches two teams of imprisoned Union Army soldiers play baseball at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Civil War historians are debating the actual size of the crowd.
1888: At the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, on the Pennsylvania State Fair Buildings and Grounds located at Broad Street & Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia, the Downtowners beat the Uptowners in the first sanctioned indoor baseball game ever played, 6 - 1, before a crowd of 2,000.
1922: On their tour of the Far East, the Herb Hunter All-Americans, with Casey Stengel and Waite Hoyt among their members, beat a team of U.S. servicemen, 12 - 5, in Manila.
In other games, the All-Americans are the first team of major leaguers to play a Chinese team, in Shanghai, and also play a Korean all-star team in Seoul, whipping them, 21 - 3.
The American all-stars also lost a game in Japan when Zensuke Shimada hit an out-of-the-park home run against Hoyt and the Mita Club defeated the All-Americans, 9 - 3. Michimaro Ono got the win. It is the first loss by a team of touring U.S professionals in Japan.
1927: Nellie Fox, who will lead the American League in hits four times, win three Gold Gloves, play in 12 All-Star Games, and become American League MVP for the 1959 Chicago White Sox, is born in St. Thomas, Pennsylvania. It will not be until 1997, 23 years after his death, that he will finally be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
1957: With the backing of United States Representatives Kenneth Keating and Emanuel Celler, the minor league executives urge that Major League Baseball compensate them for infringement on their territorial rights.
1958: Rickey Henderson is born in Chicago, Illinois. Henderson will break into the major leagues with the Oakland Athletics in 1979, and will go on to become one of the greatest leadoff batters in mlb history before being elected to the Hall of Fame in 2009.
2001: Hideki Matsui signs a one-year, $4.7 million contract to play for the Yomiuri Giants, becoming the highest-paid player in Nippon Pro Baseball history. The outfielder's salary surpasses the $4 million mark the Orix Blue Wave gave Ichiro Suzuki for the 2000 season.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Alex Jones. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Alex Jones 1903.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bill Akers. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Bill Akers 1929-1931.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Ned Garver. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Ned Garver 1952-1956.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Jack Hamilton. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Jack Hamilton 1964-1965.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Gene Lamont. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Gene Lamont 1970-1972, 1974-1975, coach 2006-2017.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Julio González. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Julio Gonzalez 1983.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Erik Hiljus. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Erik Hiljus 1999-2000.
Tigers players and managers who passed away:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Karl Olson. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Karl Olson 1957.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Billy Martin. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Billy Martin Managerial Record
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Billy Martin 1958, manager 1971-1973.
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