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A powerfully built fastballer, Mullin's semi-pro years brought him to Wabash, IN, where he won a bride and two major league contracts. In 1901 he signed with both the Dodgers and Tigers. Forced to choose, Wabash George took the team closer to his new home and won 13 games for the seventh-place 1902 Tigers. Mullin led the AL in walks while pitching more than 300 innings each year from 1903 to 1906. But he and the Tigers improved, running off consecutive pennants from 1907 to 1909. His .784 winning percentage and 29 wins were league highs in '09. On July 4, 1912, his birthday, Mullin no-hit the Browns. A .263 lifetime hitter, he was used 101 times as a pinch hitter. (JK)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » May 24, 1903: The Tigers avoid Detroit's Sunday ban on baseball by playing Washington at Grand Rapids, in a game that draws 6,000. Detroit wins 5-4 behind George Mullin, with John Deering in relief. » August 16, 1903: Toledo native George Mullin, pitching for the Tigers, helps the attendance today (6,000) as the Tigers take on New York in a Sunday game in Toledo. Mullin is racked for eight runs, but Detroit scores 12, led by the hitting of Sam Crawford, who is 5-for-6. » July 24, 1905: Cleveland and Boston play their 2nd straight game in Columbus, Ohio. Boston won yesterday, 6-1, behind Cy Young, and today the Pilgrims win again, 7-1. Bill Dinneen is victorious over Detroit workhorse George Mullin. Boston 2B Hobe Ferris was 3-for-4 yesterday, and today chips in with a homer. » August 13, 1908: Cy Young Day is celebrated by 20,000 in Boston. He pitches briefly against an All-Star team that includes Jack Chesbro, Hal Chase, Willie Keeler, Harry Davis, and George Mullin. The game is interrupted several times for presentations to the great hurler, including a great loving cup from the AL for all his accomplishments. » September 27, 1908: The Tigers take over first place with Sunday 5-2 win over the A's behind righty George Mullin. » April 14, 1909: On Opening Day in Detroit, Detroit's George Mullin pitches a one-hitter, beating the White Sox, 2-0, and setting a record for fewest base runners in an opener. Gavvy Cravath singles and walks, the only Sox to reach base. » May 25, 1909: Righthander George Mullin wins his 9th in a row for Detroit 7-4 over Washington, on his way to a league-leading 29-8 record. » June 10, 1909: George Mullin's winning streak reaches 11 with a 2-1 win over New York. On the 15th, he will finally lose to the Athletics 5-4. » October 8, 1909: The Pirates, winners of 110 games, face Detroit in the World Series, which pits the two leagues' top offensive stars, Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb. It is the first of three times that batting champs will face each other in the World Series (Al Simmons and Chick Hafey in 1931: Bobby Avila and Willie Mays in 1954 are the others) Pittsburgh manager Fred Clarke starts 27-year-old rookie righthander Babe Adams against Tigers P George Mullin. There are only 11 hits in the game, but one is a home run by Clarke, and the Pirates win 4-1 before a crowd of 29,264. » October 12, 1909: George Mullin's 5-hitter, 5-0 victory evens the Series again, as Ty Cobb drives in two runs with a double. Mullin strikes out 10 batters, as Lefty Leifield takes the loss. Lefty is not helped by six Buc errors. » October 14, 1909: George Mullin outlasts three Pirates pitchers for a 5-4 win that sends the Series to a 7th game in Detroit. This is the first World Series to go the limit. » November 27, 1910: The touring Detroit Tigers, with Ty Cobb and Crawford in the lineup, play an exhibition game in Havana, Cuba. With George Mullin on the mound, the Tigers beat Almendares, 4–0. » May 10, 1911: The Detroit Tigers lose their first home game of the year 6–2, as New York hands George Mullin his first loss. The Tigers have a 21–2 record and will lead the pack until July 4th. » April 20, 1912: Detroit opens remodeled Navin Park and beats Cleveland 6–5 in 11 innings before 24,384. George Mullin wins his own game with a RBI single. Detroit opens with two double steals in the 1st inning, including Ty Cobb's swipe of home when Sam Crawford takes 2B. Cobb has two singles and two steals today. » June 22, 1912: Ty Cobb gets pinch hit for. With two outs in the 9th, and the Tigers down 11–3, Cobb is nowhere to be found, and George Mullin substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out Cobb is in the clubhouse showering. » July 4, 1912: Three weeks after the Tigers ask waivers on George Mullin, he pitches himself a 32nd birthday present at Detroit, a 7–0 no-hitter over the Browns. Mullin helps his victory with three hits and two RBIs. In the morning game, a 9–3 Detroit win, Ty Cobb steals 2B, 3B, and home in the 5th inning against the battery of George Baumgardner and Paul Krichell. Cobb has stolen home five times this season; this is his first swipe of home in his last eight successes that didn't occur in the 1st inning. » July 20, 1913: The Tigers ship 38-year-old George Mullin (1–6), five times a 20-game winner, to Washington. Mullin pitched a no-hitter a year ago on his birthday.