Detroit Tigers Team Notes
August 27 in Tigers and mlb history :
1917: At Detroit, Ty Cobb is 3 for 4 to lead the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over the Red Sox and lefty Babe Ruth.
1946 - At the Owners' Meeting, a committee formed to study integration, which includes Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, delivers its secretive report defending the covert color barrier which exists in professional baseball. The absurd reasons given why blacks shouldn't be allowed to play in the big leagues include an absence of skills due to inferior training and lack of fundamentals as well as the need to respect existing Negro League contracts, but another lesser known motivation may have been profit, as revealed later in the report: "The Negro leagues rent their parks in many cities from clubs in Organized Baseball (and) Club owners in the major leagues are reluctant to give up revenues amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars every year" and the fear white fans would be driven away if black players attracted more minorities to the ballpark.
1961: Detroit's Rocky Colavito ties an American League record with four home runs - three in the second game, in a doubleheader pummeling of the Senators 7 - 4 and 10 - 1 at Washington.
1971: Detroit's Willie Horton is struck in the eye by a pitch from Chicago's Rich Hinton, sidelining him for 28 games. Hinton, in his first major league start, lasts 2 2/3 innings in taking the loss. Joe Coleman wins.
1972: The Tigers' Willie Horton clouts an 11th-inning 2-run home run to beat Minnesota, 5 - 3, in the opener of 2. In the nightcap, Joe Coleman pitches 11 shutout innings against Minnesota before Aurelio Rodriguez's home run gives him the 1 - 0 win. This is the 3rd win in a row for the Tigers on 11th-inning homers. Rodriguez hit one to start the streak.
1999: Major league umpires are warned by the league presidents that they will be fired if they strike next week. There has been talk of a strike over baseball's refusal to allow 22 umpires to withdraw their resignations, which are effective on September 2.
Tigers players and managers birthdays :
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Buddy_Bell
http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/bellbu01.shtml
Buddy Bell manager 1996-1998.
from baseball reference
