February 1 in Tigers and mlb history:
1913: Native American Olympic hero and all-around amazing athlete Jim Thorpe begins his major league baseball career by signing with the New York Giants!
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1914: An exhibition game involving major league teams takes place in Cairo, Egypt. The game is part of a special 56-game world tour. The Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play to a 10-inning, 3 - 3 tie.
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1928: Former standout Hughie Jennings dies at the age of 58. The future Hall of Famer batted .311 over a 17-year career, including a career-high .401 in 1896. Jennings also managed the Detroit Tigers to three consecutive American League pennants from 1907 through 1909.
1942: Hank Greenberg re-enlists as sergeant in Army Air Forces.
1947: Commissioner Happy Chandler announces the creation of a pension plan for major league players. Players who have accumulated five seasons in the major leagues will receive $50 a month starting at the age of 50. For each year of additional service, a player will receive an extra $10 per month, up to a maximum of $100.
1959: Zack Wheat, a Brooklyn Robins favorite of the 1910s and 1920s, is elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee. Wheat, a .317 hitter over his 19-year career, batted .300 or better 14 times.
1962: The National League releases its first 162-game schedule.
1965: The National League clubs adopt an emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster.
1969: The Detroit Tigers drafted John Young in the 1st round (16th pick) of the 1969 amateur draft (January Secondary).
1970: The Veterans Committee selects former Commissioner Ford Frick and former players Earle Combs and Jesse Haines to the Hall of Fame.
Haines won 210 games for the St. Louis Cardinals and pitched in four World Series.
Although he played 100 games in a season just nine times, Combs accumulated 1,866 hits and batted .325.
Frick was commissioner from 1951 to 1965, but he is best remembered for suggesting that an asterisk be placed next to the name of anyone who broke Babe Ruth's home run record during the eight additional games on the schedule in 1961.
1973: Monte Irvin is elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Committee on the Negro Leagues. Irvin becomes the fourth player to gain election through the committee, joining Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard. Irvin won two batting crowns for the Newark Eagles before joining the New York Giants.
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1975: The Detroit Tigers signed Gene Michael as a free agent.
1977: Fire destroys the press box on the third deck at Tiger Stadium.
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1995: Talks resume between the major league owners and the Players' Association in attempt to resolve the on-going strike. The owners agree to drop their demand for a salary cap, replacing it with a proposal for a luxury tax.
2000: Baseball Reference launched 25 years ago today. We've come a long way since then.
2000: The Detroit Tigers released Willis Roberts.
2002: The New York Mets selected Endy Chavez off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
2002: The Detroit Tigers selected Craig Monroe off waivers from the Texas Rangers.
2005: A web site claims Yogi Berra has filed a $10 million lawsuit against TBS due to a Sex and the City promotion which used Berra's name as a possible answer concerning the definition of yogaism. The choices included (a) a type of yo-yo trick, (b) sex with Yogi Berra and (c) what Samantha has with a guy from yoga class.
2010: Jon Miller, who has been broadcasting San Francisco Giants games since 1997, is this year's Ford Frick Award winner. Widely respected for his work, Miller broadcast games for four teams prior to working for the Giants, including those of the Baltimore Orioles from 1983 to 1996. Since 1990, he has described ESPN's nationally-televized Sunday night game in partnership with Joe Morgan.
2013: More trouble for Alex Rodriguez in the wake of earlier reports of the superstar being a client of a clinic in Boca Raton, FL, Biogenesis Laboratories, which is under investigation for supplying PEDs. ESPN reports today that he has been receiving weekly injections at home from the director of the suspect clinic, Anthony Bosch.
2021: Major League Baseball announces that the Players Association has rejected its proposal to delay the start of both spring training and the regular season by one month, reducing the season to 154 games, for health and safety reasons.
2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Luis Castillo as a free agent.
2023: The Detroit Tigers signed DJ Peters as a free agent.
Tigers players birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Billy Sullivan. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Billy Sullivan 1916.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Dave Madison. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Dave Madison 1952-1953.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bob Smith. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Bob Smith 1959.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Ron Woods. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Ron Woods 1969.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Rich Becker. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Rich Becker 2000.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Austin Jackson. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Austin Jackson 2010-2014.
Tigers players and managers who passed away:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Hughie Jennings. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Hughie Jennings Managerial Record
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Hughie Jennings 1907, 1909-1910, 1912, 1918, manager 1907-1920.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Razor Ledbetter. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Razor Ledbetter 1915.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Tubby Spencer. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Tubby Spencer 1916-1918.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Red Phillips. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Red Phillips 1934, 1936.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Jake Wade. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Jake Wade 1936-1938.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Paul Calvert. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Paul Calvert 1950-1951.
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