January 13 in Tigers and mlb history:
1900: The Cincinnati Reds returned Kid Elberfeld to Detroit (American) as part of a conditional deal.
1900: The Cincinnati Reds returned Emil Frisk to Detroit (American) following previous purchase.
1922: Former Chicago White Sox star Buck Weaver applies for reinstatement to baseball. Weaver, one of the eight "Black Sox" players banned for their involvement in throwing the 1919 World Series, is turned down by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
1939: New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert dies from phlebitis at age 62. In 1919, Ruppert purchased the land on which Yankee Stadium would eventually be built.
1958: New York Senator Kenneth Keating proposes a ban within 100-mile radius on telecasts into minor league territories.
1972: Former umpire, now housewife, Bernice Gera wins her lawsuit against Organized Baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971.
Gera is slated to umpire in the New York-Pennsylvania League starting in June. She will umpire just one game, making her point before deciding to call it quits.
1978: Hall of Fame manager Joe McCarthy dies in Buffalo, New York, at the age of 90. McCarthy was the first manager to win pennants with both National and American League teams, won nine league titles overall and seven World Series championships.
1981: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bob Melvin in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1981 amateur draft (January Secondary).
1981: The Detroit Tigers drafted Mike Sharperson in the 4th round of the 1981 amateur draft (January), but was not signed.
1982: Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson win election to the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Aaron established a major league record with 755 home runs, while Robinson led the Baltimore Orioles to two World Championships and was named Most Valuable Player in both the American and National Leagues.
Aaron falls nine votes shy of becoming the first-ever unanimous selection, and his 97.8 election percentage is second only to Ty Cobb's 98.2 percent in the inaugural 1936 election. Robinson was also the first African-American manager in major league history.
1989: The Detroit Tigers signed Doyle Alexander as a free agent.
1991: While playing for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL, Bo Jackson suffers a career-threatening injury in an American Football Conference playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Originally diagnosed as a pulled thigh muscle, the Kansas City Royals learn of the severity of the injury just as spring begins. They will release Jackson shortly after, fearing that his baseball career is over, and he'll sign with the Chicago White Sox.
1993: Kirk Gibson denies rumors he will come out of retirement to play for the Tigers, saying he has already bought season tickets at Tiger Stadium. He will sign with the Tigers the following month.
1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Junior Felix as a free agent.
1995: Baseball's executive council approves the use of replacement players for spring training and regular season games. With the Players' Association on strike, the owners say they will look to retired players, minor leaguers and amateurs to fill out their rosters.
2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Ben Petrick as a free agent.
2005: Marvin Miller, the former executive-director of the Major League Baseball Players Association who helped to forever change the nature of the player-owner relationship, receives the "Fuchs Award" from the Boston Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. The honor, named in for Judge Emil Fuchs who owned the hometown Boston Braves from 1929 through 1935, is given for "long and meritorious service to baseball."
2005: Under the watchful eye of national lawmakers, Major League Baseball and the Players' Association agree in principle on a stricter steroid testing policy. The new program will randomly test players year-round, with first-time offenders suspended for 10 days and a fourth violation resulting in a one year ban for the offending player. The punishments will later be increased significantly.
2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Fu-Te Ni as a free agent.
2010: The Detroit Tigers signed Kory Casto as a free agent.
2010: The Detroit Tigers signed Jason Waddell as a free agent.
2014: Alex Rodriguez, called A-roid by baseball fans everywhere, files a lawsuit in federal court against Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association seeking to overturn the 162-game suspension handed two days earlier by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. He will drop the suit shortly and accept to serve his suspension.
2018: Umpire Doug Harvey, a veteran of 13 seasons in the National League and over 4,600 major league games, dies at age 87. Considered by many as the best umpire ever and nicknamed "God" for his infallibility, he was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 2010.
2020: The Detroit Tigers signed Ivan Nova as a free agent.
2020: The hammer comes down hard on the Astros as Major League Baseball announces its punishment in relation with their use of technology to steal their opponents' signs during their World Series-winning campaign in 2017: GM Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch are both suspended for a full season, and the team will have to pay a fine of $5 million in addition to losing its top two picks in the next two amateur drafts. Team owner Jim Crane takes it one step further and fires both Luhnow and Hinch almost immediately after the announcement of the suspensions.
2022: Five weeks after the start of the 2021-2022 lockout, the two sides finally meet face to face, via video conference, to discuss some of the core economic issues at play. The owners claim that they have made important concessions on issues such as pay levels for players for players not yet eligible for salary arbitration and manipulation of service time, but the net result of the talks appear to have been very limited.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
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Les Cain 1968, 1970-1972.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Jim Foor. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Jim Foor 1971-1972.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Orlando Miller. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Orlando Miller 1997.
Gene Roof coach 1987-1988, 1992-1995, 2011-2012.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of José Capellán. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Jose Capellan 2007.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Kid Elberfeld. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Kid Elberfeld 1901-1903.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Kid Speer. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Kid Speer 1909.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Brad Kocher. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Brad Kocher 1912.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Charlie Gelbert. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Charlie Gelbert 1937.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Tom Morgan. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Tom Morgan 1958-1960.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Johnny Podres. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Johnny Podres 1966-1967.
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