March 28 in Tigers and mlb history:
1875: Jimmy Barrett born in Athol, Mass. Tigers outfielder 1901-05. In 1904, Barrett became the first major league player to play in 162 games in one season, when the Tigers had a 154-game schedule but 10 ties. Was replaced by Ty Cobb.
1901: Philadelphia Phillies owner John Rogers files for an injunction prohibiting Nap Lajoie, Bill Bernhard, and Chick Fraser from playing for any other team - the most serious legal test of the reserve clause to date.
1918: International League owners vote 6-2 to disband the league. The two teams voting to continue play are Richmond and Newark. Despite the apparent dissolution of the league, a reborn IL will indeed play in 1918 and beyond.
1931: Ban Johnson dies in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 67. Johnson served as the first president of the American League, guiding the "junior circuit" until 1927. He will be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1937.
1937: Trying to see if a new "dead ball" is better than the existing one, the new sphere is tried in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators. The Sox outslug the Nats, 13 - 12, as Joe Cronin drives in six runs. Last week, the ball was used in a game between the New York Giants and Boston Bees with much the same result. On April 12th, the Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates will test the new ball, with the Sox winning, 9 - 6, though the longest hit is a double.
1942: In the midst of his military service during World War II, Hank Greenberg makes an appearance for the MacDill Field Fliers in an exhibition in Tampa. He hits a triple on the first pitch he sees.
1946: The Detroit Tigers released Russ Kerns.
1946: The Detroit Tigers released Milt Welch.
1947: Second baseman Johnny Evers dies in Albany, New York, at the age of 65. Known as "the Crab," Evers won the National League MVP Award in 1914 and stole 324 bases over an 18-year career. In 1946, Evers was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
1958: Slugger Chuck Klein dies in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the age of 53. Klein batted .320 with 300 home runs and 1201 RBI over a 17-year career. His most productive season came in 1933, when he won the National League Triple Crown. Klein will be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1980.
1961: In their first meeting since Pittsburgh's dramatic World Series win over New York, the Bucs, behind would-be World Series goat Bob Friend, beat up the banged-up Bombers, 9 - 2. The game's first run comes in the bottom of the 2nd on Roberto Clemente's bases-empty bomb over the left-field fence. Pittsburgh goes up 3 - 0 in the 3rd on Dick Stuart's two-run shot, likewise to left field. By the 7th, the Bucs have built their lead to 8 - 0 before New York can push across its initial tally.
1976: Media sources report a potential blockbuster trade between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers which involves two future Hall of Fame pitchers. According to the rumor, the deal will send Tom Seaver to the Dodgers in exchange for Don Sutton. Mets fans respond negatively to the proposed deal, perhaps influencing management to call off the trade. Seaver will remain with the Mets until 1977, when he is traded to the Cincinnati Reds, in a trade which will be universally rued by Mets fans.
1977: The Detroit Tigers released Marv Lane.
1982: The Detroit Tigers released George Cappuzzello.
1983: The Detroit Tigers purchased Keith Comstock from the Oakland Athletics.
1988: The Detroit Tigers traded Karl Best to the Minnesota Twins for Don Schulze.
1990: A plan to allow starting pitchers to earn victories with only three innings pitched (because of the abbreviated spring training period) is scrapped, but teams will be allowed to open the regular season with 27-man rosters instead of the allowed maximum of 25.
1994: The Detroit Tigers released Skeeter Barnes.
1996: Kirby Puckett is taken to the Ft. Myers Hospital after he awakes with his vision affected by a career-threatening malady. He has a black dot in front of his left eye and his vision is diagnosed as 20/200. Puckett, who hit .360 in spring training, will undergo surgery on April 17th.
1999: The Baltimore Orioles make the first visit to Cuba by major leaguers since 1959, and defeat a team of Cuban amateurs by a score of 3 - 2 in 11 innings. Pitcher Jose Contreras hurls eight innings of two-hit, 10-strikeout ball in relief for the Cubans, while catcher Charles Johnson hits a two-run home run and DH Harold Baines drives in the winning run for the Orioles. The two teams will play a rematch at Camden Yards in Baltimore on May 3rd.
2002: The Detroit Tigers released Melvin Nieves.
2002: The Detroit Tigers released Juan Sosa.
2003: Three days prior to Opening Day, the YES Network claims Cablevision has pulled out of a proposed deal signed 17 days ago which would have provided televised New York Yankees games to nearly three million cable subscribers in the New York City metropolitan area. According to a YES press release, the giant cable television company failed to sign a finalized version of the hand-written document that both parties exchanged on March 12th, but Cablevision president, James L. Dolan, said when YES sent him a revised typewritten draft on two days later, the document contained alterations that he found unacceptable.
2003: The Detroit Tigers released Robinson Cancel.
2003:The Detroit Tigers released Luke Carlin.
2003: The Detroit Tigers released Jesse Carlson.
2003: The Detroit Tigers released Damion Easley.
2003: The Tampa Bay Devil Rays selected George Lombard off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
2008: The Seattle Mariners sent Jeff Frazier to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.
2008: The Detroit Tigers released Jason Perry.
2014: Two-time defending American League MVP Miguel Cabrera signs an eight-year contract extension with the Tigers. Including the two years remaining on his present contract, the deal is worth $292 million, making it the biggest in major league history.
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It surpasses the ten-year extension signed by Alex Rodriguez in 2006 for $275 million. In fact Rodriguez had held the record since signing as a free agent with the Texas Rangers for $252 million in 2001.
The huge deal makes the six-year contract for $144.6 million that Angels OF Mike Trout also signs today seem like an anecdote.
2014: Major League Baseball and the Players Association agree to a number of changes that toughen the major leagues' PED policy. The penalty for a first offense goes from 50 to 80 games, suspended players will no longer be eligible for the postseason or for full a postseason share, while the number of random tests will be significantly increased.
2016: The Detroit Tigers released Casey McGehee.
2016: The Detroit Tigers released Bobby Parnell.
2017: The Detroit Tigers released Daniel Muno.
2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Jairo Labourt as a free agent.
2018: The Detroit Tigers released Enrique Burgos.
2018: The Detroit Tigers released Derek Norris.
2019: It's Opening Day across Major League Baseball as all 30 teams are active, one week after a preliminary two-game opening series in Japan. A record number of homers are hit today - 48 across the majors. Leading the charge are the Dodgers, who hit an opening day record 8 long balls in their 12 - 5 win over the Diamondbacks.
2019: The Detroit Tigers released Louis Coleman.
2019: Jordan Zimmerman pitches 6+ perfect innings, and Christin Stewart hits a 2-run home run in the 10th to give the #Tigers a 2-0 win in Toronto on Opening Day.
2024: It's
Opening Day in
Major League Baseball, with all 30 teams scheduled to play today - although two games on the East Coast are
rained out. Highlights include great pitching performances by
Corbin Burnes,
Frankie Montas and
Shane Bieber, a game-saving throw by
Juan Soto, and a 450-homer by
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Tyler O'Neill, now with the
Red Sox, homers on Opening Day for the fifth straight year, setting a new record, and C
Jonah Heim of the
Rangers plays both the goat and the hero, allowing the
Cubs to score the go-ahead run in the top of the 9th when he argues in vain with umpire
Chad Fairchild that a ball that got past him had been tipped by the batter, instead of retrieving it, and then driving in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th on a bases-loaded hit for the defending
World Series champions. Finally, the
D-Backs score an Opening Day and franchise record 14 runs in the 3rd inning of their 16 - 1 win over the
Rockies, and do so without the benefit of a homer.
Tigers players birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Jimmy Barrett. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Jimmy Barrett 1901-1905.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Craig Paquette. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Craig Paquette 2002-2003.
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Donie Bush 1908-1921.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Johnny Neun. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Johnny Neun 1925-1928.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Don Ross. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Don Ross 1938, 1942-1945.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Gus Triandos. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Gus Triandos 1963.
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