February 15 in Tigers and mlb history:
1910: Both major leagues adopt resolutions banning syndicate baseball, which allowed owners to have financial interests in more than one team. The National League votes for a 154-game schedule to open on April 12th, which the American League has already adopted. Other rules: umpires must announce all team changes to spectators; batting orders must be delivered to the umpire at home plate before the game; a batter is out if he crosses the plate from one batter's box to the other while the pitcher is in position to pitch; a baserunner is out if he passes another runner before the latter has been put out.
1916: The New York Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Philadelphia Athletics for $37,500. He sat out the 1915 season in a salary dispute with Connie Mack.
1931: The New York Yankees' training site in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager.
1940: The Detroit Tigers' roster lists Hank Greenberg as an OF. The willingness of the team's leading power hitter to switch, at a contract boost, from 1B allows manager Del Baker to find a position for Rudy York.
Also on the list are Dick Bartell, picked up from the Chicago Cubs for Billy Rogell and Pinky Higgins, who had been shopped around. The four, along with Barney McCosky and Charlie Gehringer, produce the stuff that will move the Tigers from fifth to first, although its .588 mark will be as low as that of any pennant-winner yet.
1946: Detroit's Hank Greenberg signs for $60,000 and then marries New York department store heiress Carol Gimbel three days later.
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1946: The Phillies hire the first female major league scout when they sign Edith Houghton, who began playing professionally as a 10-year-old with the Philadelphia Bobbies women?s baseball team.
1950: The Detroit Tigers selected Paul Calvert off waivers from the Washington Senators.
1956: The Pirates and the Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in the racist city of Birmingham, AL, because of a local ordinance barring black players from playing against white players.
1957: A Boston newspaper claims that Ted Williams never paid his $5,000 fine for spitting at the crowd. It refers to him mockingly as the "Splendid Spitter."
1990: Major League owners refuse to open spring training camps without a new Basic Agreement with the Players' Association, beginning a lockout that will last 32 days and postpone the start of the regular season by one week.
2005: The Detroit Tigers signed Vic Darensbourg as a free agent.
2012: Major League Baseball announces that it will void the contract reached by the Baltimore Orioles with teenage Korean pitcher Seong-Min Kim on January 30th. The Korea Baseball Association filed a formal protest after the signing, alleging that the O's have breached protocol by inking Kim without obtaining prior clearance from Korean baseball authorities.
2012: Major League Baseball sets up a vetting committee chaired by Bill Bartholomew, chairman emeritus of the Atlanta Braves and including six other major league owners, to evaluate the merits of the various bids to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers. 11 groups have cleared the initial round of qualification. The final choice is to be made by current owner Frank McCourt, who will first select five bidders to be submitted to the newly-formed committee for approval; the final sale also requires the approval of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross. The complex process must be completed by April 30th, when McCourt is required to pay a $131 million divorce settlement to his ex-wife Jamie.
2023:
Bally Sports, owners of the
broadcast rights for 14
MLB teams, fails to make an interest payment of $140 million, asking for a grace period of thirty days. It is widely expected that the cable network will fail to meet the new deadline and will be forced to file for bankruptcy.
Commissioner Rob Manfred tells reporters that contingency plans are in place and that if Bally is unable to fulfill its contractual obligations, MLB will terminate the deals and take over production of broadcasts and make them available to consumers via streaming or local cable.
2023: The
Detroit Tigers signed
Matt Wisler as a free agent.
Tigers players birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Buddy Hicks. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Buddy Hicks 1956.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Brian Williams. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Brian Williams 1996.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Ugueth Urbina. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Ugueth Urbina 2004-2005.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Don Kelly. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Don Kelly 2009-2014.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Álex González. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Alex Gonzalez 2014.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Mark Canha. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Mark Canha 2024.
Tigers players who passed away:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of John Deering. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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John Deering 1903.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Cotton Pippen. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Cotton Pippen 1939-1940.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Lynn Nelson. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Lynn Nelson 1940.
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