Detroit Tigers Team Notes
September 17 in Tigers history :
1910: Detroit pitcher Ed Summers, a notoriously poor hitter, bounces two home runs into the stands in a 10 - 3 victory over the A's. The two homers, both off Harry Krause, will comprise his career total.
1920: The Tigers' Bobby Veach and the Giants' George Burns hit for the cycle, the first time it has happened twice on the same day. It will be 88 years until the feat is duplicated. Detroit, behind Veach's 6 for 6, outlasts Boston in 12 innings, despite 20 Sox batters receiving walks. Eight Tigers walk. Veach is the first Tiger to hit for the cycle.
1958 - Despite a wind blowing in at Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles a Jim Bunning pitch down the right field line over the roof onto Trumbull Avenue, some 500 feet away. The 2-run homer is all that Bunning allows as the Tigers win 5 - 2.
1968: Detroit clinches the American League pennant with a 2 - 1 win over the Yankees. Detroit is ahead 1 - 0 when Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey phones Tiger general manager Jim Campbell with the news that the Sox have beaten the Orioles, clinching the pennant for the Tigers. Campbell keeps the score off the radio and the scoreboard, fearing the news will send fans rampaging onto the field. Don Wert singles home the winner in the 9th and the fans tear down the left field screen.
Tigers players birthdays :
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/webbea01.shtml
Earl Webb 1932-1933.
from baseball reference
