Trailing 90 – 83 with two minutes remaining, the Pistons rallied to tie the game, then took a 92 – 90 lead when Vinnie Johnson sank an 18 foot jumper with 00. 7 seconds left in the game ; this shot earned Johnson a new nickname in Detroit, " 007 ", to go with his original, " The Microwave ".

After a win over Detroit Mercy, the Jayhawks rallied for a comeback victory over Purdue in the second round, a game in which Kansas led for only 45 seconds.

The Twins trailed the Detroit Tigers by seven games in the American League Central division at the start of September, but rallied, winning 17 of their last 21 games to finish the season tied atop the division.

Detroit then rallied late in the third period to tie the game and send it into overtime.

He rallied the Tigers to a 55 – 47 record for the remainder of 1963, a first division finish in, and slowly was mentoring much of the talent ( Denny McLain, Willie Horton, Mickey Lolich and others ) that would win Detroit the 1968 world championship.

At season's end ( December 17 ), the Eagles rallied to beat Detroit 27 – 24, and hoped for a Giants ' loss to force a playoff.

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`` He recommended both of them for the DSM and the Detroit fellow for the Purple Heart, too, for a combat-inflicted wound.

Anxious to avoid a similar debacle in the motor car industry, Hanch went to Detroit in 1909 to enlist the support of leading A.L.A.M. members for an industry-wide patent-sharing plan.

Former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in Detroit called for a firmer and tougher policy toward the Soviet Union.

Horton Smith of Detroit, a former president of the Professional Golfers Association, will receive the Ben Hogan Trophy for his comeback following a recent illness.

He was found guilty of reckless driving yesterday by Traffic Judge George T. Murphy, who continued his no-driving probation for another year and ordered him to spend 15 days in the Detroit House of Correction.

Only two teams in each league ( the Yankees and Detroit, the Dodgers and Cincinnati ) are battling for first place.

Lerner and Loewe's first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Conners's farce The Patsy called Life of the Party for a Detroit stock company.

The 1910 race for best average in the American League was between the Detroit Tigers ' widely disliked Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie of the Cleveland Indians.

After a poor season for Federko in 1988 – 89, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings with Tony McKegney for future Blues star Adam Oates, and Paul MacLean.

The first international convention for coin collectors was held 15 – 18 August 1962, in Detroit, Michigan, and was sponsored by the American Numismatic Association and the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association.

The Browns met Detroit on December 26 in the championship game for a third consecutive time.

The Detroit Curling Club was started in 1840 when Michigan only had a population of 212, 000 and had only been in the Union for three years.

After the Maris trade, Lane acquired 25-year old Norm Cash from the White Sox for Minnie Miñoso and then traded him to Detroit before he ever played a game for the Indians ; Cash went on to hit over 350 home runs for the Tigers.

In 1960, Lane made the trade that would define his tenure in Cleveland when he dealt slugging right fielder and fan favorite Rocky Colavito to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn just before Opening Day in.

After the trade, however, Colavito hit over 30 home runs four times and made three All-Star teams for Detroit and Kansas City before returning to Cleveland in.

The Indians started the 2011 season strong-going 30-15 in their first 45 games and seven games ahead of the Detroit Tigers for first place.

The Indians have a rivalry with the Detroit Tigers due to the fact that the two cities are fairly close to each other, the teams have been battling for the A. L.

The team was purchased and moved to Detroit for the 1934 season.

The current Detroit club was a charter member when the Western League reorganized for the 1894 season.

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

Due to the wartime travel restrictions, the first three games of the 1945 World Series were played in Detroit, where the Cubs won two games, including a one-hitter by Claude Passeau, and the final four were played at Wrigley.

* 1943 – The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.

In 1974, as well, the Detroit band Death — made up of three African-American brothers — recorded " scorching blasts of feral ur-punk ," but couldn't arrange a release deal.

In March 2011, the Pogues played a six-city / ten-show sold out US tour titled " A Parting Glass with The Pogues " visiting Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington D. C., Boston, and New York ( in that order ), with only the last three cities getting more than one show.

Williams said that the " only real fun " he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 12-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York.

Detroit continued to burn for three more days until finally 43 were dead, 2250 were injured, 4000 were arrested ; property damage ranged into the hundreds of millions.

The station signed on August 10, 1948 as WJZ-TV, the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with WENR-TV ( now WLS-TV ) in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two.

The Birmingham Americans weren't paid for their last five games, the Florida Blazers weren't paid for the last three months of the season ( and reportedly survived on McDonald's meal vouchers ), and the Sharks weren't paid for what turned out to be their last six games ; the most dire situation, however, was that of the Detroit Wheels.

Margaret lived with Kinzie in Detroit and had three children with him.

After a first round win over the Washington Wizards, the Cavaliers rebounded from a 0 – 2 deficit in the second round against the Detroit Pistons, winning three consecutive games to come one game away from the conference finals.

After again losing the first two games at Detroit, the Cavaliers won the next three to take a 3 – 2 series lead.

Since moving to Detroit in 1957, the Pistons have won three championships in 1989, 1990 and 2004.

They defeated the Rockets, Spurs, and Timberwolves in the first three rounds of the 2004 NBA Playoffs, before succumbing to Detroit in five games in the 2004 NBA Finals.

They were one of three American teams added that year, along with the Detroit Cougars ( now the Detroit Red Wings ) and New York Rangers.

In the late 1950s, the Hawks struck gold, picking up three young prospects ( forwards Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita and defenseman Pierre Pilote ), as well as obtaining both star goaltender Glenn Hall and veteran forward Ted Lindsay ( who had just had a career season with 30 goals and 55 assists ) from Detroit.

The Canucks built a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series before the Blackhawks were able to win three games in a row, becoming just the sixth ( the feat was repeated in the second round that year by the Detroit Red Wings ) team in NHL history to force a seventh game in a best-of-seven series after facing a 0-3 deficit.

On December 28, 1944, Richard scored five goals and three assists in a 9 – 1 win over the Detroit Red Wings.

On May 19, 1976, Yastrzemski hit three home runs against the Detroit Tigers at Tiger Stadium.

Amtrak serves the city with Wolverine trains, which run from Chicago to Detroit, and Pontiac three times a day in each direction.

In 1836 three entrepreneurs named Dibble, Kingsbury and Kendall bought along the Thornapple River from Detroit banker Eurotas P. Hastings.

The resort is located roughly three hours north of Detroit, MI and is currently still operated, and frequented, by the 5th and 6th generation descendents of the original founding families.