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The 1960 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Tigers' sixth-place finish in the American League with a 71–83 record, 26 games behind the AL Champion New York Yankees .
The Tigers toiled in mediocre play until their next pennant in 1940 while Greenberg won his second MVP award, although the Tigers lost in seven games. World War II meant that Greenberg would be away from 1941 to 1944 due to service, and the Tigers regressed despite the efforts of pitchers such as Hal Newhouser , who won the MVP Award in 1944 ...
The Tigers won 101 games, a whopping 30-game improvement over the 71–83 1960 team, but still finished eight games behind the Yankees. [137] This marked one of the few times in major league history that a team failed to reach the postseason despite winning 100 or more games, though it had happened once before to the Tigers in 1915. [ 137 ]
Richard John McAuliffe (November 29, 1939 – May 13, 2016) was an American professional baseball shortstop / second baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers (1960–73) and Boston Red Sox (1974–75). [1] He was a part of the Tigers' 1968 World Series championship
August 3 – In an unusual move, Cleveland Indians GM Frank Lane trades managers with Detroit Tigers GM Bill DeWitt. The Indians' Joe Gordon (49–46) is dealt to the Tigers for Jimmy Dykes (44–52). For one game, until the pair can change places, Jo-Jo White pilots the Indians and Billy Hitchcock guides the Tigers.
On June 25, 1962, the Tigers traded Maxwell to the Chicago White Sox. Maxwell had a late season revival with the White Sox in 1962. By the third week of August, Maxwell was batting .352 for Chicago, and had a 13-game hitting streak, the team's longest that year. Maxwell wound up hitting .296 for the White Sox in 1962 with nine home runs.
July 19, 1960, for the Detroit Tigers: Last MLB appearance; July 15, 1972, for the Chicago White Sox: MLB statistics; Win–loss record: 96–81: Earned run average: 3.84: Strikeouts: 743: Saves: 92: Managerial record: 71–73: Winning %.493: Stats at Baseball Reference Managerial record at Baseball Reference Teams; As player. Detroit Tigers ...
Stats at Baseball Reference Teams; Detroit Tigers ... (1959, 1960, 1967) Pitched a perfect game on June 21, 1964; ... in 1957, with the Detroit Tigers) was the only ...