Coughlin had a brief stay with Washington's NL club in 1899, and resurfaced there
for the AL's inaugural 1901 season. Traded to Detroit in mid-1904, he captained the
Tigers' first two(r-h)h)h)pennant winners, 1907-08. Coughlin's best ML BA was .301
in 1902.
(JL)
FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY
»June 2, 1902:
The Senators unload three homers in the 3rd inning against the White Sox Clark Griffith as Ed Delahanty, Bill Coughlin and George Carey belt the Old Fox, though not consecutively. After Wyatt Lee doubles, Griffith takes himself out.
»June 6, 1906:
Bill Coughlin is the 2nd Tiger within a month to steal 2B, 3B, and home in a game; he does this in the 7th inning against Washington during a 13-4 romp. Pitcher Bill Donovan did it on May 7th.
»October 8, 1907: The Tigers have Game One of the World Series against the Cubs in their grasp—or in C Charlie Schmidt's glove—but it gets away from them. Leading 3–2 in the 9th, Bill Donovan faces pinch hitter Del Howard with two on and two outs. He fans Howard, but the ball gets away from Schmidt, and the tying run scores. Darkness ends the game after 12 innings. Jimmy Slagle of the Tigers is nabbed in the 1st by Bill Coughlin after Germany Schaefer pulls a hidden ball trick on him, the first in Series history.
»October 9, 1907: In Game Two, the Tigers score just once against Chicago’s Jack Pfiester
and lose 3–1. They will not score more than once in any of the remaining
games in the WS. Jimmy Slagle gets nabbed in the first inning by a hidden
ball trick, the only one in WS history. The play goes Germany Schaefer to Bill Coughlin (according to Bill Deane). Slagle redeems himself in the 4th by driving in the go-ahead run and then scoring on Sheckard’s double.
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