December 1: Dan Schatzeder, George Lerchen and the late Jim Ray, Pete Wojey, Ernie Alten and Willie Mitchell
December 2 Bob Jones, Dan McGarvey, Tom Doran and Roscoe Miller
December 3 Andy Oliver, Chad Durbin, Gary Glover and the late Delos Drake
December 4 Angel Nesbitt, Pat Sheridan, Barbaro Garbey and the late Harvey Kuenn
December 5 Gene Harris and the late Ed Summers
December 6 Larry Sheets and Gary Ward
December 7 Kevin Hooper, Brian Schmack and the late Alex Johnson and Dick Donovan
December 8. Robbie Weinhardt and the late Eddie Brinkman and Razor Ledbetter. Ledbetter: 1 MLB game, 1 IP w/ 1915 Tigers.
December 9 Bruce Rondon, Adam Wilk, Chris Truby, Todd Van Poppel, Juan Samuel, Ed Romero, and the late Bob Hazle, Chuck Kress and Steve Larkin.
December 10 Pat Ahearne, Mel Rojas, Luis Polonia, Dalton Jones and Jack Feller*, and the late Leo Cristante, Floyd Giebell, Earl Cook and Bots (not Boots) Nekola.
*Feller appeared in 1 game, 0 PAs for 1958 Tigers.
December 11 Mike Henneman, Bob Sykes and the late Slick Coffman and Erwin Renfer.
December 12 The late Flea Clifton and Les Hennessy.
December 13 The late Bubba Morton, Larry Doby, Frank Metha and Rube Kisinger. Doby appeared in 18 games for the 1959 Tigers.
December 14 Marcus Jensen and the late Jeff Robinson, Carl Linhart, Sam Jones, Jim Walkup and Rudy Kallio.
December 15 Jim Leyland, Ray Herbert (Detroit Catholic Central), Eddie Robinson and the late Nig Clarke.
December 16 Jason Wood, Bill Ripken and the late Neil Chrisley (whose real name was Barbra).
December 17 Erick Eckenstahler, Brandon Villafuerte, Rudy Pemberton and Curtis Pride.
December 18 Joe Randa, Willie Blair and the late Les Burke, Sam Barnes, Clay Perry and Ty Cobb.
December 19 Mark Woodyard, Clay Parker and the late Al Kaline and Tony Taylor.
December 20 Aubrey Huff and the late Snooks Dowd, Deacon Jones and Paddy Baumann.
December 21 Elliott Maddox
December 22 Andy Allanson, Sheldon Burnside, Tom Makowski and the late Johnny Bero, Tex Erwin.
December 23 Victor Martinez, Cody Ross and Jerry Manuel, and the late Al Cicotte, Doc Gessler and Frank Owen
December 24 Andrew Romine, Matt Ginter, Larry Foster and the late Ed McCreery
December 25 Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas, Erik Hiljus, Julio Gonzalez, Gene Lamont, Jack Hamilton and the late Ned Garver, Bill Akers and Alex Jones
December 26 Darin Downs, Omar Infante, Storm Davis and the late Herman Pillette and Pug Cavet
December 27 Rick Porcello, Dean Palmer and the late Red Lynn, Jim Tobin, Jackie Tavener and Charlie Carr
December 28 Myles Jaye, Melvin Nieves, Carl Willis, Ray Knight and the late Aurelio Rodriguez and Tommy Bridges
December 29 Luis de los Santos, the late Bill Sweeney and Dave Skeels.
December 30 Ben Blomdahl and the late Bill Taylor.
December 31 Evan Reed, Brian Moehler, the late Ted Gray, Al Lakeman and Syl Johnson
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