At Navin Field in Detroit, Babe Ruth becomes the all-time home run leader when he hits his 139th career blast as a major leaguer. The Yankee slugger’s 36th homer of the season, a mammoth shot that travels over 500 feet, puts him ahead of Roger Connor, who connected for 138 round-trippers during his 18 years in the National League.
July 29 At Navin Field, Dutch Leonard decides to pitch around Bob Roth with two outs in the ninth inning to face Babe Ruth. Although the Boston slugger, who has already reached the Detroit southpaw with two doubles, responds by tying an American League record with his ninth homer of the month and sixteenth of…
Dutch Leonard, facing only 28 batters, tosses his second career no-hitter when he holds the Detroit Tigers hitless in the Red Sox’ 5-0 victory at Navin Field. ‘Hub’ had also pitched a no-no against the Browns two seasons ago at Fenway Park.
On July 6, 1917, At Navin Field the Chicago White Sox hurlers Red Faber and Jim Scott halt Ty Cobb’s 35-game hitting streak. Faber won 254 games in his Hall of Fame career, with Cobb hitting .335 against him. His streak began May 31. Cobb still holds the American League mark of 40 straight games,…
The Philadelphia A’s twenty-game losing streak ends when Joe Bush beats the Tigers, 7-1. The 20-80 club has won only three of their prior 43 contests, with lone victories during the stretch snapping skids of twelve and nine consecutive defeats.
Tigers favorite Harry Heilmann gets an appreciative hand from the crowd for having dived into the Detroit River last night to save a woman from drowning.
On September 11, 1912, future Hall of Famer Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia Athletics sets a major league record by stealing six bases in a game. Each time Collins victimizes Detroit Tigers catcher Brad Kocher, helping Philadelphia to a 9-7 win at Navin Field. The A’s second baseman, who will swipe six bases again…
Ty Cobb gets pinch hit for in an unusual scenario. With two outs in the 9th, and the Tigers down 11 – 3, Cobb is nowhere to be found, and George Mullin substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out Cobb is in the clubhouse showering.
On April 20, 1912, the Detroit Tigers host their first game at Navin Field. The original opening day was to be April 18th but it was delayed, as was Fenway Park’s by multiple days of heavy rain. The starting lineups included three future members of Baseball’s Hall of Fame: charter member Ty Cobb, Wahoo Sam…
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