The Detroit Tigers won over 100 games four times.
In 1915, the Tigers won exactly 100 games.
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The Detroit Tigers lost 100 games six times in their history.
The 1945 World Series was won by the Detroit Tigers over the Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3. Game 1: Detroit-Hal Newhouser, Chicago-Hank Bowory Game 2: Detroit-Virgil Trucks, Chicago-Hank Wyse Game 3: Detroit-Stubby Overmire, Chicago-Claude Passeau Game 4: Detroit-Ray Prim, Chicago- Dizzy Trout Game 5: Detroit-Hal Newhouser, Chicago-Hank Bowory Game 6: Detroit-Virgil Trucks, Chicago-Claude Passeau Game 7: Detroit-Hal Newhouser, Chicago-Hank Bowory
Jack Clements of the Philadelphia Phillies was the first catcher to wear a chest protector in 1885. The first chest protectors were worn under the uniform and not over. Clements was one of the few left handed catchers in the game and caught over 1000 games, the most of any left handed catcher in MLB history.
1 hour and 25 minutes for Game 5 of the 1908 World Series won by the Chicago Cubs over the Detroit Tigers by the score of 2-0.
13 days ... April 1 through April 13.The season started on April 15 and the regular season games lost to the strike were not made up. Because of not making the strike games up the Detroit Tigers won the AL East over the Boston Red Sox by 1/2 game, the first and only time a pennant race was decided by 1/2 game.The most games played by a team was 156 and the fewest was 153.
The Chicago Cubs have the longest drought between World Series wins, with their last win coming in 1908 over the Detroit Tigers. The Cleveland Indians have the second-longest drought. Their last win came in 1948 over the Boston Braves. Of the teams likely to compete in the 2009 postseason, the longest droughts belong to the San Francisco Giants (last win in 1954), the Texas Rangers (never since the franchise's beginning in 1961), the Detroit Tigers (last win in 1984) and the Los Angeles Dodgers (last win in 1988).