The NFL does not consider the Colts ( now based in Indianapolis ) to be a continuation of the Yanks / Bulldogs / Yanks / Texans franchise, or even the Dayton Triangles for that matter considering that franchise's successor, the Brooklyn Dodgers / Tigers, merged with the Yanks in 1945.

However, the NHL does not reckon the Americans as a continuation of the Bulldogs / Tigers franchise.

As a result, the NHL does not consider the Americans to be a continuation of the Tigers — or for that matter, of the Tigers ' predecessors, the Quebec Bulldogs.

Although the Americans ' roster was composed almost entirely of the former Tigers players, the NHL does not consider the Americans to be a continuation of the Bulldogs / Tigers franchise.

However after a rained out game against the Detroit Heralds, the Pros played a reorganized Tigers team that held the Pros to a 7-7 tie.

In 1919, as the suspended teams resumed play and travel restrictions eased significantly, the Heralds went 2-4-2, including losses to Canton and the Massillon Tigers, the two best teams in Ohio and possibly the country.

The Heralds were reorganized into the Detroit Tigers, after the city's major league baseball team, for the 1921 season.

Dr. Young presided over a new team known as the " Hammond All-Stars ," played against many of the teams that would become the backbone of the American Professional Football Association that year ( including the Racine Cardinals, Detroit Heralds, Rock Island Independents, Minneapolis Marines, Cleveland Tigers, Canton Bulldogs, and Toledo Maroons ), and went to the meeting in Canton, Ohio at which the APFA was formed in 1920.

Detroit Heralds became the Detroit Tigers.

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.

It was renamed Tiger Stadium in 1961 and the Tigers played there until moving to Comerica Park in 2000.

The Tigers played their first game as a major league team at home against the Milwaukee Brewers on April 25, 1901, with 10, 000 fans at Bennett Park.

Tiger Stadium was used by the Tigers until the end of the 1999 season ; from 2000 they have played in Comerica Park.

According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

Since the Tigers " ran up a 61 to 0 score on the hapless Mountain Staters, the pass played no important part in the result.

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.

Rockne learned to play football in his neighborhood and later played end in a local group called the Logan Square Tigers.

After a mediocre year where the Twins played. 500 baseball for most of the season, the team won 17 of their last 21 games to tie the Detroit Tigers for the lead in the Central Division.

Although the Padres continued to struggle after Colbert's departure via trade to the Detroit Tigers in 1974, they did feature star outfielder Dave Winfield, who came to the Padres in 1973 from the University of Minnesota without having played a single game in the minor leagues.

The players said it was even better than the actual World Series being played between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs that year.

In the week following the trade deadline, the Spurs also signed forward Boris Diaw after Diaw's contract was bought out by the Charlotte Bobcats, and former Portland Trail Blazers guard Patrick Mills who played for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the CBA during the lockout.

Perry attended Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, where he played for coach Danny Ford's Clemson Tigers football team from 1981 to 1984.

He played as a pitcher in Major League Baseball for ten seasons, most notably for the Detroit Tigers.

The Tigers have played their home games at the MCG since 1965.

Centreman Charlie Backhouse played over 200 games in a 15-year career before the Tigers joined the VFL in 1908.

In 1906 – 07, the Tigers played finals without looking likely to win the flag.

During the four years he played in high school the Tigers compiled a 94-9-1 won – loss record and Don hit. 463.

Rogers played college football at Auburn University, and was a part of the 1987 Auburn Tigers football team and 1988 Auburn Tigers football team that played in the 1988 Sugar Bowl and 1989 Sugar Bowl.

* Rico Brogna, MLB 1st baseman who played for the Detroit Tigers, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, and Atlanta Braves from 1992 – 2001

Moosup's claim to fame is that it is the boyhood hometown of Walt Dropo, During a 13-year career in Major League Baseball, he played for the Boston Red Sox ( 1949 – 1952 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1952 – 1954 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1955 – 1958 ), Cincinnati Redlegs ( 1958 – 1959 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1959-1961 ).

He played thirteen seasons in the American and National League with the Detroit Tigers ( 1917 – 1923 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1923 – 1929 ), Washington Senators ( 1929 ), and Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1929 – 1930 ).

In both the 1920 and 1921 seasons, Buffalo played all of its games at home ( the lone exceptions being the two 1921 matches in Chicago and one against the Detroit Tigers ).

* 1921 Tigers, merged with the Buffalo All-Americans, at Chicago Staleys ( won 7-6 )

The Staleys won, 6-0 ; the Tigers dropped out of the league right afterward and, after playing one game against the independent Thorn Tornadoes, folded, with the Staleys moving to Chicago ( later to become the Chicago Bears ) one week into the 1921 season.

According to the NFL, the Chicago Tigers folded between the 1920 and 1921 seasons.

The Tigers played in the " Ohio League " before joining the American Professional Football Association ( later renamed the National Football League in 1922 ) during the 1920 and 1921 seasons.

In 1921 the Tigers returned with two future Hall of Famers, Joe Guyon and player-coach Jim Thorpe.

They first use of the Indians name came in 1921, when the Cleveland Tigers became the " Cleveland Indians " before folding after the 1921 season.

# Bobby Veach: 384 ( Detroit Tigers, 1921 )

Cobb took over as the Tigers ’ manager in 1921 and worked closely with Heilmann to improve his batting technique.

The entire Detroit Tigers lineup had a remarkable season at the plate in 1921.

The 1921 Tigers finished the season with a team batting average of. 316 – the highest in American League history.

Perhaps proving the baseball adage that good pitching beats good hitting, the 1921 Tigers lacked good pitching and finished in sixth place, 27 games behind the Yankees.

* Ernie Cox – player ( C ), 1963 ( Hamilton Tigers 1921 – 31 ).

* Pep Leadley – player ( RB / K ), 1963 ( Hamilton Tigers 1919 – 20, 1926 – 30 ; Queen's University 1921 – 25 ).

* Mike Rodden – builder, 1964 ( Queen's University as player 1910 – 13, coach 1916 ; McGill University as player 1914 ; Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club as player 1915, coach 1921 – 22 ; Toronto Argonauts as player 1919 – 20, coach 1920, 1926 ; Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers as coach 1924 ; Hamilton Tigers as coach 1927 – 30, 1937 ).

The 1921 version of the team played several exhibition games, but only two league games, losing to the Buffalo All-Americans in October, and again to the Cleveland Tigers that December.

After playing the 1920 – 21 NHL season with the Hamilton Tigers, Coutu was traded back to Montreal prior to the start of the 1921 – 22 NHL season, along with Sprague Cleghorn, in exchange for Harry Mummery, Amos Arbour, and Cully Wilson, in the NHL's first multiple-player trade.

In 1921, the Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Tigers of the Big Four League saw their league collapse on allegations of pay for amateurs.

* Calgary Tigers ( 1921 – 1926 )

Corbett Denneny scored six goals in a game January 26, 1921 helping the Toronto St. Patricks to wallop the Hamilton Tigers 10 – 3.

* Chicago Cardinals v Chicago Boosters ( pre-1920 ), Chicago Tigers ( 1920 ), Hammond Pros ( 1920 – 26 ), Kenosha Maroons ( 1924 ), Chicago Staleys / Bears ( 1921 – 1959 )