» August 12, 1940: Cleveland and Detroit, deadlocked for 1st place (64–44), square off. In the initial pitching duel between the two aces, Bob Feller tops Hal Newhouser, 8–5, to become the majors' first 20-game winner.

» August 5, 1942: White Sox 1B Don Kolloway's 2-out steal of home in the 5th inning is the only run of the game against Tiger lefty Hal Newhouser. Sore-armed Thornton Lee is the winner. There are seven games played today, and five end in shutouts.

» May 30, 1944: Dizzy Trout leads off the bottom of the 9th with a home run to win his own game as the Tigers beat the Yankees 2–1. Hal Newhouser finishes off the nightcap with a complete-game, 4–1 win.

» June 1, 1944: Hal Newhouser picks up a victory in relief as the Tigers beat the Yankees 4-3 on Don Ross's 16th- inning RBI.

» June 7, 1944: Detroit's Hal Newhouser is wild and issues nine passes in six innings as the White Sox defeat the Tigers by the score of 3-1.

» September 30, 1944: Hal Newhouser wins his 29th as Detroit whips Washington 7-3.

» November 28, 1944: Hal Newhouser is named MVP in the AL gathering 4 more votes than teammate Dizzy Trout. Newhouser's 29 wins contrasts with 9-9-8-8 win totals in previous years. His 2.22 ERA is bettered by Trout (2.12), who also has 27 wins.

» May 6, 1945: Tiger pitchers Hal Newhouser and Al Benton shut out the Browns in a doubleheader. Prince Hal wins 3–0 and Benton follows with a 1–0 victory.

» August 12, 1945: In the lid lifter at Briggs Stadium, pitcher Jim Tobin, acquired on waivers, pitches three scoreless innings against New York and clubs a 3-run homer in the bottom of the 11th to win, 9–6. Another former Brave, Jim Turner, serves up the homer. The Tigers win the nitecap, 8–2, behind Hal Newhouser's 18th win.

» August 20, 1945: Detroit's Hal Newhouser shuts out the A's 4–0 for his 20th win of the year. Greenberg has his 15 game hitting streak stopped, but Roy Cullenbine and Doc Cramer add home runs.

» August 24, 1945: Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from the Navy and attracts a home crowd of 46,477, who watch him strike out 12 and yield only four hits in a 4–2 win over Detroit's Hal Newhouser. He will get nine starts during the remainder of the year, and his five wins will include a one-hitter and two 4-hitters. With the war now over, fans are clamoring for entertainment and it is clear Feller is still baseball's number one ticket seller.

» May 8, 1946: At Griffith Stadium, Detroit 2B Eddie Mayo snags a 3rd inning liner off the bat of Gil Torres to start a triple play. The ball was deflected by P Hal Newhouser, but Mayo grabbed it before it hit the ground. It is the 2nd time in a year that Mayo has started a triple play off Torres: in the 2nd inning of a nitecap on July 20, 1945, Mayo grabbed a Torres line drive to start the TP.

» April 15, 1947: In St. Louis, the Browns open as usual against Hal Newhouser and the Tigers, losing, 7–0. For Newhouser, it is his 13th straight win against St. Louis (as noted by historian Lyle Spatz). The streak will be stopped at 15 games on August 12.

» April 26, 1947: Bob Feller shuts out the Tigers to give the Tribe a 6–0 win. Hal Newhouser takes the loss.

» May 17, 1947: In Philadelphia, Hoot Evers breaks up a scoreless duel between Hal Newhouser and rookie Joe Coleman by hitting a two-out two-run homer in the 9th inning. The A's load the bases with no outs in the bottom of the 9th, but score just one run.

» May 30, 1947: Before a crowd of 56,367, the first-place Tigers split a pair with the Browns to move to three games ahead of Cleveland. Detroit wins the lidlifter, 2–1 as Hal Newhouser scatters five hits, but Nelson Potter tops Virgil Trucks, 8–3, to take the nitecap. Tiger rookie Johnny McHale accounts for all three runs in game two with a pair of homers.

» August 12, 1947: After losing the first game to Detroit, 7–1, the Browns take the nitecap 6–5, beating Hal Newhouser in relief. For Newhouser, it is his first loss to the Browns after 15 consecutive wins.

» August 13, 1947: Willard Brown of the Browns is the first black player to homer in the American League when he hits a pinch inside-the-park blow in a 6–5 win over the Tigers. Hal Newhouser is the Detroit pitcher.

» July 13, 1948: Vic Raschi of the Yankees drives in the winning runs with a bases-loaded single in the 4th inning and is the winning pitcher as the American League again tops the National League 5–2 in the All-Star Game at Sportsman's Park. Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, George Kell, and Hal Newhouser miss places in the lineup due to injuries.

» July 27, 1948: A Tiger-record night crowd of 54,609 see Ellis Kinder and the Red Sox top Hal Newhouser, 8–0

» October 3, 1948: Cleveland can clinch the flag with a win over Detroit, but Hal Newhouser gives up only 5 hits in the 7-1 Detroit victory.

» June 16, 1950: Pitching before a crowd of 54,086, Hal Newhouser trims the Red Sox for the 2nd time in six days, winning 4–1. He strikes out eight including Johnny Pesky four times. Detroit keeps it's one 1/2 game lead over New York.

» September 22, 1950: In the top of the 9th in Cleveland, Detroit's Don Kolloway cracks a 2-run HR off Bob Feller to tie the game at 3–3. In the bottom of the inning, Joe Gordon takes Hal Newhouser downtown to hand the Tigers a heartbreaking 4–3 loss. The loss pushes the Bengals back into 2nd place. Feller now stands 8–2 against the Tiger ace stretching back to 1940. The two will face off once more in a no-decision contest in 1952. In the nitecap, Mike Garcia drops the Bengals another game back with an 10–2 victory, while New York is shutting out the Red Sox, 8–0. Cleveland is the only team that holds a winning edge over Detroit this year (13–9).

» September 25, 1952: Hal Newhouser of the Tigers wins his 200th game. It is his last win for Detroit, who will release him in early 1953.

» March 17, 1992: Pitcher Hal Newhouser and umpire Bill McGowan are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.

» August 2, 1992: Rollie Fingers, Bill McGowan, Hal Newhouser and Tom Seaver are inducted in baseball’s Hall of Fame.

» July 27, 1997: The Tigers retire Hal Newhouser's uniform #16. Newhouser pitched 15 seasons for the Bengals and is the only pitcher to win back to back MVP awards, in 1944 and 1945. Following the festivities, the Tigers lose to Milwaukee, 11-7, as the Brewers come up with five runs in the 9th inning.