Welcome to a new project to celebrate 2020!
This season is the 119th year of the Tigers as a major league club, and we thought it might be interesting — if history is interesting to you — to look way, way back to the very beginning of the Tigers and look at how well previous clubs did, what milestones happened in the world outside of baseball, and to spotlight some lesser known Tigers players.
So with that, we will start with 1901, the very beginning of the Detroit Tigers as we know them.
1901 in History
1901 was the first year that the British colonies of Australia became their own Commonwealth nation, and saw the swearing in of their first Prime Minster, Edmund Barton.