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The 1984 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 84th season and the 73rd season at Tiger Stadium. The Tigers won the 1984 World Series , defeating the San Diego Padres , 4 games to 1. The season was their 84th since they entered the American League in 1901.
The Tigers have completed 124 seasons in Major League Baseball, qualifying for the postseason seventeen times and reaching the World Series eleven times (1907-1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, 2006, 2012) with four world championships (1935, 1945, 1968, 1984).
The 1984 Major League Baseball season started with a 9-game winning streak by the eventual World Series champions Detroit Tigers who started the season with 35 wins and 5 losses and never relinquished the first place lead.
Just before the start of the 1984 season, Hernández was shipped to the Tigers in a trade. The team installed him into the closer role and watched him develop into a superstar.
Bless You Boys: Diary of the Detroit Tigers' 1984 Season is a book written in 1984 by Sparky Anderson with Dan Ewald. [1] The phrase "Bless You Boys" was the catchphrase adopted by Detroit sportscaster Al Ackerman for the 1984 Detroit Tigers team that started the year with a 35–5 start.
Detroit acquired Hernández and Dave Bergman from the Phillies for Glenn Wilson and John Wockenfuss a few weeks before the 1984 season. Hernandez would go on to make three straight All-Star teams ...
The 1984 team got off to a 9–0 start highlighted by Jack Morris tossing a nationally televised no-hitter against Chicago in the fourth game of the season. [ 225 ] [ 226 ] They stayed hot for most of the year, posting a 35–5 record over their first forty games and cruising to a franchise-record 104 victories. [ 227 ]
100% of the proceeds from the summer store, which features 1984 Detroit Tigers apparel, will benefit The Kirk Gibson Foundation for Parkinson's.