The Detroit Tigers and Cleveland ... well, let’s not get hung up on names this early, since they sure didn’t back then ... anyway, the Tigers and the Cleveland franchise were both charter members of the American League, back in 1901.

They finally met, these franchises separated by roughly 170 miles and the south end of Lake Erie, for the first time on May 3, 1901 – a 6-3 win for the Tigers in Detroit on “ladies day,” as the Freep writeup made note of .

For the Tigers, shortstop Kid Elberfeld went 2-for-3 with an RBI and second baseman Kid Gleason went 1-for-1 with another RBI, while the Guardians, lacking any players named “Kid,” relied on the 2-for-3 performance of third baseman Bill Bradley (not a kid at age 23, and also not to be confused with current Freep Sports editor Bi

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