Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).

Greenberg played first base for the Pirates in 1947 and was one of the few opposing players to publicly welcome Jackie Robinson to the majors.

Greenberg with the Pirates in 1947.

In his final season of 1947, Greenberg tied for the league lead in walks with 104, with a. 408 on-base percentage and finished eighth in the league in home runs and tenth in slugging percentage.

Starring as a first baseman and outfielder with the Tigers ( 1930, 1933 – 46 ) and doing duty only briefly with the Pirates ( 1947 ), Greenberg played only nine full seasons.

After the 1947 season, Greenberg retired from the field to become the Cleveland Indians ' farm system director and two years later, their general manager and part-owner along with Bill Veeck.

Greenberg was traded to the National League in 1947, which was Jackie Robinson's rookie year.

In 1947, with the participation of Rabbi Simon Greenberg his efforts toward that end culminated in the establishment of the American Jewish University, then known as the University of Judaism.

In his first bout, at the 1947 Golden Gloves, he suffered a broken nose and lost by technical knockout in two rounds to Myron Greenberg.

( According to Baseball Almanac, Hank Greenberg was the first with Pittsburgh in 1947.

In 1947, well after Dreyfuss ' death, and upon the arrival of veteran slugger Hank Greenberg, the bullpens were moved from foul territory to the base of the scoreboard in left field and were fenced in, cutting from the left field area, from to down the line and to in left-center field.

As had been true the previous year, a large number of players received votes, though few players were named who had not appeared in the 1948 vote apart from the newly eligible 1947 retirees ( prominently, Mel Ott and Hank Greenberg ); every still-eligible player who received more than 2 votes in 1948 was again named.

Clement Greenberg wrote in 1947 that Böcklin's work " is one of the most consummate expressions of all that was now disliked about the latter half of the nineteenth century.

By the time his second book appeared, The Fall of Magicians ( New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947 ), Kees had already been painting for more than a year and had befriended a number of Abstract Expressionism artists, including Willem De Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, as well as the critic Clement Greenberg — whose column Kees took over at The Nation from 1948 to 1950.

Dr. Wexler was preceded in the presidency by Dr. Simon Greenberg ( 1947 – 1963 ) and Dr. David Lieber ( 1963 – 1992 ).

* Jake Gaudaur – builder, 1984 ( Hamilton Tigers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats as player 1940, 1948 – 53, director 1952 – 53, president 1954 – 55, general manager 1956 – 67 ; Toronto Argonauts as player 1941 ; Toronto RCAF Hurricanes as player 1942 ; Toronto Indians as player 1945 – 46 ; Montreal Alouettes as player 1947 ; CFL commissioner 1968 – 84 ).

In 1940, amid anti-foreign sentiment, the Tigers changed the name to " Hanshin " and in 1947 changed the name back to " Ōsaka Tigers ".

James Laverne " Skeeter " Webb ( November 4, 1909 – July 8, 1986 ) was a Major League Baseball infielder who played twelve season in the major leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1932 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1938 – 1939 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1940 – 1944 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1945 – 1947 ), and Philadelphia Athletics ( 1948 ).

In 1946 and 1947, Skeeter stayed with the Tigers as a backup second baseman.

George Clyde Kell ( August 23, 1922 – March 24, 2009 ) was an American baseball third baseman who played for the Philadelphia Athletics ( 1943 – 46 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1947 – 52 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1952 – 54 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1954 – 56 ), and Baltimore Orioles ( 1956 – 57 ) in the American League, who went on to become a baseball broadcaster for 40 years.

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* 1947: Osaka Tigers

Darrell Wayne Evans ( born May 26, 1947 ) is a former third baseman and first baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1969 to 1989 with the Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 76, 1989 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1976 – 83 ) and Detroit Tigers ( 1984 – 88 ).

He played all or part of thirteen seasons in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers ( 1934, 1937 – 45 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1946 – 47 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1947 ) and Philadelphia Athletics ( 1948 ), primarily as a first baseman.

The loss was not long remembered as the Tigers went on to take out the next two seasons, beating St George 14-12 in 1946, and Canterbury 13-9 in 1947.

Aurelio Rodríguez Ituarte, Jr. ( December 28, 1947 – September 23, 2000 ), was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the California Angels ( 1967 – 70 ), Washington Senators ( 1970 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 – 79 ), San Diego Padres ( 1980 ), New York Yankees ( 1980 – 81 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1982, 1983 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1983 ).

He was a three-time All-Star ( 1935, 1936 & 1947 ), and a member of three Tigers ' World Series teams (, & ).

The East Bengal Tigers defunct regiment ( 1947 – 1970 ) then part of Pakistan Hockey Federation Team.

In five seasons and 64 games with the Tigers ( 1943 – 45, 1947 – 48 ), McHale compiled a batting average of. 193 with 22 hits.

* Hamilton Tiger-Cats ( Hamilton Tigers formed in 1869, joined in 1907, left for ORFU in 1947 ; Hamilton Wildcats joined from ORFU 1947 ; both clubs merged in 1950 as Tiger-Cats );

As of July 2012, Brookvale Oval is the 2nd most played-on Australian professional rugby league ground in active use in the National Rugby League, having hosted 663 first grade games since Manly first played there in their inaugural game against Western Suburbs ( now the Wests Tigers ) in 1947 ( only Leichhardt Oval with 794 games starting in 1934 has been used more ).

Chester Peter Laabs ( April 30, 1912 – January 26, 1983 ) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Detroit Tigers ( 1937 – 39 ), St. Louis Browns ( 1939 – 46 ) and Philadelphia Athletics ( 1947 ).

He had a 15-year career ( 1947 – 1961 ), playing for the Boston Braves ( 1947 – 1952 ) and Philadelphia Phillies ( 1953 – 1955 ), both of the National League, and the Detroit Tigers ( 1956 – 1957 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1957 – 1961 ) and New York Yankees ( 1961 ) of the American League.

The track re-opened in 1945 for a couple of meetings and the re-formed Tigers raced in the Northern League of 1946 and the National League Division Two 1947 – 1950.

Between 1944 and 1947 Helion had a series of one-man shows -- at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in New York and in Paris -- of his new realistic pictures.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

It has been said that twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.

In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which by 2010 had seen 29 million visitors — 1, 300, 000 annually — pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei (" work makes free ").

He attributed its origin to John W. Tukey, who had written a Bell Labs memo on 9 January 1947 in which he contracted " binary digit " to simply " bit ".

In 1947, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier that had prevented talented African American players from entering the white-only major leagues.

In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

As a result of a study conducted in 1947, the policy was implemented that authorized the retroactive award of the Bronze Star Medal ( w / o " V ") to soldiers who had received the Combat Infantryman Badge or the Combat Medical Badge during World War II.

In 1947 almost one in five films had been comic in nature, but by 1954 this was down to ten percent.

The Electricity Act 1947 introduced better retirement benefits for workers in that industry, and a Workers ’ Compensation ( Supplementation ) Act was passed in 1948 that introduced benefits for workers with certain asbestos-related diseases which had occurred before 1948.

When this was introduced in July 1947, it led to a currency crisis and convertibility had to be suspended after just five weeks.

They had a daughter in 1942 and another in 1947.

Dutch physicists Hendrik B. G. Casimir and Dirk Polder at Philips Research Labs proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms and between such an atom and a conducting plate in 1947, and, after a conversation with Niels Bohr who suggested it had something to do with zero-point energy, Casimir alone formulated the theory predicting a force between neutral conducting plates in 1948 ; the former is called the Casimir-Polder force while the latter is the Casimir effect in the narrow sense.

Inflation continued unabated, as did its negative impact on the national standard of living, and by 1947 foreign exchange reserves had fallen to dangerously low levels.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

Until 1947, the East Wing of Pakistan, separated from the West Wing by 1, 600 km of Indian territory, had been heavily dependent on Hindu management.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.

A number of Grand Prix racing organisations had laid out rules for a World Championship before the war, but due to the suspension of racing during the conflict, the World Drivers ' Championship was not formalised until 1947.

Prior to 1947, the only definition of first-class cricket had been one in Great Britain that dated from a meeting at Lord's in May 1894 between the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) committee and the secretaries of the clubs involved in the official County Championship, which had begun in 1890.

Orwell's health had continued to decline since the diagnosis of tuberculosis in December 1947.

Although air transport in Guyana had its beginnings in the 1920s when the first " bush " services were introduced, Government's earnest participation can be dated from 1947 when a Director of Civil Aviation was appointed to regulate the industry.