Feller, who had pitched a no-hitter to open the season and won 27 games, lost the final game of the season to unknown pitcher Floyd Giebell of the Detroit Tigers.

Among the investors was Bob Hope, who had grown up in Cleveland, and former Tigers slugger, Hank Greenberg.

A fast attack boat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | rebel LTTE in Sri Lanka in 2003 passes the hulk of an LTTE supply ship that had been sunk by government aircraft, Sri Lankan Civil War ( 1983-2009 )

The Chicago Police Department made numerous arrests, and the extensive damage to the field forced the White Sox to forfeit the second game to the Detroit Tigers, who had won the first game.

In 1947, Greenberg and the Tigers had a lengthy salary dispute.

Rosenbloom was awarded the remains of the Dallas Texans who had a long and winding history starting as the Boston Yanks in 1944 who later merged with the Brooklyn Tigers and were previously known as the Dayton Triangles, an original NFL team established in 1913.

The Detroit Tigers swept the Royals in the 1984 playoff season, and in the early 2000s, Detroit and Kansas City had a number of bench clearing brawls.

Heading into the final weekend of the season in 1967, the Twins, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, and Detroit Tigers all had a shot at clinching the American League championship.

South Korea had one of the world's fastest growing economies from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, and South Korea is still one of the fastest growing developed countries in the 2000s, along with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, the other three members of Asian Tigers.

In the 1984 World Series, the Padres faced the powerful Detroit Tigers, who steamrolled through the regular season with 104 victories ( and had started out with a 35 – 5 record, the best ever through the first 40 games ).

When that season ended, Short dealt his best starting pitcher and the left side of his infield to the Detroit Tigers for erstwhile 30-game-winner Denny McLain, who had spent most of the 1970 campaign suspended because of gambling allegations.

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.

Martin had managed the Tigers in 1972, when Jackson's A's beat them in the playoffs.

He was replaced with Steve Stirling, who had previously been coaching the team's top minor league affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.

The PCL has had a long tradition on the West Coast, with teams with evocative names such as the Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Mission Reds ( representing San Francisco's Mission District ), Oakland Oaks, Portland Beavers, Sacramento Solons, Salt Lake Bees, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Seals, Seattle Rainiers, Spokane Indians, Vernon Tigers ( later the Tacoma Tigers ), Vancouver Canadians, and the Hawaii Islanders.

Adams had fallen in love with hockey while watching the 1924 Stanley Cup Finals between the NHL champion Montreal Canadiens and the WCHL champion Calgary Tigers.

After the Tigers had clinched the 1968 American League pennant, McLain added to his penchant for notoriety while pitching in his 31st victory in a game against the New York Yankees on September 19, 1968.

Later in the season, the Tigers had their score annulled against Essendon when it was discovered that they had too many men on the ground.

The Tigers had been out-thought by their old mentor Checker Hughes, who had assigned a tagger to negate Dyer.

Although the new president, ex-captain Neville Crowe, had stabilised the club and scored a coup by persuading club legend Kevin Bartlett to coach, the matter of servicing the huge debt remained a chain around the Tigers ' neck.

The club struggled to come to terms with the draft after its inception in 1986, and made a number of poor choices – notably, the number one pick in 1987 was used on a player who had only two games with the Tigers.

After massive hype in the off-season, the Tigers had a terrible start to the 2007 season, losing their first 9 matches ( this included suffering their biggest ever defeat, at the hands of eventual premiers Geelong, by a whopping 157 points ).

The trade proved to be a good one for the Tigers but a terrible, unpopular one for the Indians, whose fans lost their favorite player and best hitter.

However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Paul Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team.

McLain went on to have a remarkable season in 1968, producing a 31 – 6 record along with a 1. 96 earned run average, as the Tigers led from start to finish to win the American League pennant.

However, just as they did in 2005, the Tigers would respond to their poor start by winning 8 of their next 11 matches, and by the end of Round 14, the Tigers were in the Top 8 by a game and percentage.

With yet another new head coach ( Jimmy Gardiner ) the Hamilton Tigers roared off to an impressive 10 – 4 – 1 start in the 1924 – 25 NHL season.

At the start of the 2011 season, the longest continuous affiliations will be two 45-year links: between the Philadelphia Phillies and their Double-A Eastern League affiliate, the Reading Phillies ; and the one between the Detroit Tigers and their Single-A Florida State League affiliate, the Lakeland Flying Tigers.

Fidrych made the Tigers as a non-roster invitee out of the spring training, not making his major-league debut until April 20, and not making his first start until mid-May.

* May 25: In his second start, Fidrych held the Boston Red Sox to six hits and two runs, but the Tigers were shut out, 2-0, by Luis Tiant.

He recorded his first career Major League hit in his first career start, at shortstop on September 25 off of Detroit Tigers pitcher José Lima.

Lolich had a 17-9 record with 197 strikeouts, as the Tigers led from start to finish to win the American League pennant by 12 games over the second-place Baltimore Orioles.

Despite a unsettled start, when he surrendered a two-run home run to Orlando Cepeda in a three-run first inning, Lolich remained calm and proceeded to pitch eight scoreless innings, as the Tigers scored two runs in the fourth inning, then went ahead in the seventh inning, when Al Kaline hit a bases loaded single to drive in two runs.

The start of the 2007 season saw the Giants make some exciting signings, including Wests Tigers trio, Jamahl Lolesi, John Skandalis and Shane Elford, as well as Ryan Hudson who returned to rugby league after completing a 2-year drugs ban.

He followed his no-hitter with a six-run, three-inning performance in his next start, however, in a game against the Detroit Tigers.

With three games remaining during the regular season, Cleveland started their final series against the Detroit Tigers, with 20-game winner Lemon to start the first game.

He pitched a six-hit complete game over the Detroit Tigers in his last start of the season on September 29.

Larsen made his Major League Baseball ( MLB ) debut with an start against the Detroit Tigers on April 17, 1953.

He served as player-manager the Tigers at the start of the 1913 season, but stepped down as manager, hiring Russ Hall to serve as manager in June.

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.

On June 16, 2011, the SCL Tigers announced they have signed the 33 year old Esche to a contract and will arrive in late July to start his training with the team

Others include routines such as eating only chicken before a game like Wade Boggs, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander eating three crunchy taco supremes ( no tomato ), a cheesy gordita crunch and and a Mexican pizza ( no tomato ) before every start from Taco Bell.

The Tigers led the American League Eastern Division season from start to finish, then defeated the Kansas City Royals in the 1984 American League Championship Series, before winning the 1984 World Series against the San Diego Padres.

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.