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unusual facts about The Tigers


The Tigers

The Serb Volunteer Guard, nicknamed The Tigers or Arkan's Tigers, a paramilitary organisation of the Yugoslav Wars


Kenichi Hagiwara

After The Tempters, he formed the band PYG along with Kenji Sawada, the first true Japanese supergroup, a unit which included members of The Tigers, The Tempters, and The Spiders.


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1925 Stanley Cup Finals

However, the Tigers were suspended after Hamilton players staged a strike in an attempt to receive more compensation because the league extended the regular season from 24 to 30 games.

1940 Detroit Tigers season

January 14: Baseball commissioner Judge Landis ruled that 91 players on the Tigers roster or in the Detroit farm system were free agents, due to misconduct by the team in restricting its minor league players.

1987 American League Championship Series

In what would turn out to be the last postseason game ever played at Tiger Stadium, the Twins would send Blyleven to the mound to face the Tigers' Doyle Alexander.

1997 Holiday Bowl

In the second quarter, Missouri scored on a 4-yard touchdown run from quarterback Corby Jones, giving the Tigers a 10-7 lead.

Missouri's Ernest Blackwell scored on a 7-yard touchdown run, again shifting the lead to the Tigers, 17-14.

2003 Auburn Tigers football team

After consecutive losses to Ole Miss, led by Eli Manning, and Georgia, the Tigers concluded a disappointing regular season by defeating arch rival Alabama, 28–23.

2007 Big 12 Championship Game

Quarterback Chase Daniel in his junior year led the Tigers to their first Big 12 Championship Game.

Armando Galarraga

On June 2, 2010, while playing for the Tigers, he was deprived of a perfect game by an incorrect call made by umpire Jim Joyce in the top of the ninth inning with two outs.

Art Regner

Karsch and Regner were heavily promoted and often broadcast from locations, like the Tigers series in Chicago and 2006 play-offs in Yankee Stadium.

Babe Borton

As details in the scandal emerged, it was discovered that he and some Vernon teammates had also bribed opponents in 1919 to throw the pennant to the Tigers.

Bachir Gemayel

In 1980, in order to stop the clashes happening inside the Christian areas, between the Kataeb Militia and the Tigers Militia, and in order to eliminate the possibility of an Intra-Christian war, Bachir sent his troops to the town of Safra, where Dany Chamoun and members of his Tigers Militia were vacationing.

Baskerville Holmes

While with the Tigers of Memphis State, Holmes (along with William Bedford and Keith Lee) formed a very powerful and productive front court.

C. J. Nitkowski

After the 1998 season, the Astros traded Nitkowski with Ausmus back to the Tigers for Paul Bako, Dean Crow, Brian Powell, and minor leaguers Carlos Villalobos and Mark Persails.

Clark Bautista

In the Philippine Collegiate Champions League later that year, Bautista would play a key part in the Tigers run in the tournament as they first won the Metro Manila-Luzon tournament by defeating both the Letran Knights and the Adamson Soaring Falcons to enter into the PCCL Final Four with the Ateneo Blue Eagles, San Beda Red Lions and the Southwestern U Cobras.

Con Strouthers

In 1904 he was the manager of the Augusta Tourists of the South Atlantic League or "Sally League" when he invited Ty Cobb, who would go on to a Hall of Fame career with the Tigers, to join the club.

Eastern Suburbs Tigers

Although they lost the Grand Final it sparked a resurgence in Easts' performance for years to come and the Tigers won the Woolworths pre-season competition in 1969.

Ed Summers

He began his playing career in the American Association before joining the Tigers in the American League in 1908.

Frank Haith

The Tigers defeated #5 Florida in Mizzou Arena and won three of their final four games heading into the SEC Tournament.

Frank Skaff

He died in Towson, Maryland in 1988 at the age of 77 while on a scouting trip for the Tigers.

Gerry DiNardo

On November 15, 1999, two days after the Tigers lost to unranked Houston at home, LSU chancellor Mark Emmert fired DiNardo with one game remaining in the season.

Gib Hutchinson

Whilst with the Tigers, Hutchinson helped them to with the league championship in 1946–47 and 1947–48, and the Autumn Cup in 1946 and 1950.

Gresham Poe

According to Harper's Weekly, "Poe's presence seemed to rejuvenate the Tigers, and for the last 10 minutes of the contest they fairly outplayed the weary Elis. The ball was twice carried half the length of the field, but the whistle blew before Princeton could score." he graduated from Princeton in 1902.

Harry Newman

In mid-November 1936, the Tigers franchise moved to Rochester, New York, where they played the final two games of the 1936 season.

Here Come the Tigers

Here Come the Tigers is a 1979 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham.

Jaffna University Helidrop

By the time the first flight of the second wave—flown again by Sapre and Vinayraj—took off from Palali airbase however, the Tigers had been able to identify the approach route and moved troops and heavy machine guns to the rooftop of a building north of the field.

Jason Grilli

Jason was born in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak following his father's second season with the Tigers.

Jeric Teng

In his fourth season, Teng was named the co-captain of the Tigers with Jeric Fortuna as the captain.

Jim Foor

On November 30, 1972, he was traded by the Tigers with Norm McRae to the Pirates for outfielder Dick Sharon.

Joe Sparma

In 1965, Sparma was in his first full season with the Tigers, when he was assigned to be the starting pitcher against the Yankees on "Mickey Mantle Day" in New York.

John Tsitouris

Then, in Detroit's half of the sixth inning, the Tigers scored two runs on a home run by Charlie Maxwell and an RBI double by J. W. Porter.

Johnny Groth

On December 4, 1952, the Tigers traded Virgil Trucks‚ who tossed two no-hitters during the year‚ along with Hal White and Groth‚ to the Browns in exchange for Owen FriendBob Nieman‚ and Jay Porter.

Karim Abdul

In the Philippine Collegiate Champions League later that year, Abdul would play a key part in the Tigers run in the tournament as they first won the Metro Manila-Luzon tournament by defeating both the Letran Knights and the Adamson Soaring Falcons to enter into the PCCL Final Four with the Ateneo Blue Eagles, San Beda Red Lions and the Southwestern U Cobras.

Kingborough Football Club

The Kingborough Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club, based at Kingston, Tasmania and currently playing in the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.

Lewis Moody

Making the Tigers starting XV was difficult however, as internationals Neil Back and Martin Corry took two of the three starting positions, with Paul Gustard and Will Johnson (younger brother of Martin) fighting for the remaining place.

Matty Young

He made his debut for the Tigers after coming off the bench to replace Chris Bettney in a disappointing 1-1 draw away to Evo-Stik League Division One South side Market Drayton Town in the FA Trophy.

Mike Roarke

He toiled one further season, 1960, in the minors (with the Denver Bears of the American Association) before finally making his Major League debut with the Tigers at age 30 on April 19, 1961.

Missouri–Oklahoma football rivalry

The Tigers were the Big 12 North's representative to the 2007 Big 12 Championship Game where they faced Big 12 South representative Oklahoma.

Netanya Tigers

The first pitcher drafted by the Tigers was right-handed 6'5" pitcher Leon Feingold, who pitched for the State University of New York at Albany 1990-1994, the Cleveland Indians system from 1994-1995, the independent Atlantic League in 1999, and also played for the Pleasantville Red Sox.

Northeastern Football Alliance

The Tigers are based in Lyndonville, New York and play their home games at Pembroke Town Park in Pembroke, New York.

Octavio Dotel

The Tigers were Dotel's thirteenth major league team, allowing him to pass Matt Stairs, Mike Morgan and Ron Villone for the MLB record of the most teams for which a player played.

Oscar Stanage

Stanage joined the Tigers in 1909 and eventually replaced Boss Schmidt as Detroit's regular catcher.

Prahran Football Club

Tony Free – player-coach in 2001 and 2002 after retiring from an illustrious career with the Richmond Football Club including being Captain of the Tigers.

Pyg

Formed in 1971, the unit was fronted by the two biggest stars of the era: lead singers Kenji Sawada of The Tigers and Kenichi Hagiwara of The Tempters.

Ron Nischwitz

After the season he was traded by the Tigers with Gordon Seyfried to the Indians for Bubba Phillips.

Tom Ed McHugh

That decision proved more popular for Christian because Billy Cannon scored an 89-yard touchdown to keep the Tigers undefeated and to win a Heisman Trophy, the only LSU player ever so honored.

Tommy Bridges

Born in Gordonsville, Tennessee, Bridges attended the University of Tennessee, and after having a 20-strikeout game for the minor league Wheeling Stogies in 1929, he joined the Tigers in 1930, inducing Babe Ruth to ground out on his first major league pitch.

Walter Briggs, Jr.

Though Briggs wanted to keep his ownership of the Tigers and of Briggs Stadium, family estate administrators ordered both sold in 1956.

Wycombe Tigers Youth FC

The Tigers good fortune continued throughout the season, as they registered wins against rivals Hazlemere Sports (beating them 2-5 in the league), Chesham, AFCL Youth, Haddenham Youth Colts, and Penn and Tylers Green U16s.