the tigers last won a world series in 1984.
when did the tigers last win a world series?
1984
the franchise's first manager after the team's arrival in the american league was george stallings, who managed the team for one season. hall of famer hughie jennings, who managed the team from 1907 to 1920, led the team to three american league championships. jennings however was unable to win the world series, losing to the chicago cubs in 1907 and 1908 and the pittsburgh pirates in 1909. the detroit tigers did not win their first world series until 1935 under the leadership of player-manager mickey cochrane. steve o'neill later led the tigers to another world series victory again in 1945. the tigers would not win another world series until 1968 world series when the tigers, led by mayo smith, defeated the st. louis cardinals. sparky anderson's 1984 detroit tigers team was the franchise's last world series victory, and marked the first time in major league baseball history that a manager won the world series in both leagues. in total, the tigers have won the american league pennant 10 times, and the world series 4 times.
list of detroit tigers managers
the cubs lost the 1945 world series to the detroit tigers, and did not win a world series championship again until 2016. the cubs had last won the world series in 1908. after the incident with sianis and murphy, the cubs did not play in the world series for the next 71 years until, on the 46th anniversary of billy sianis's death, the "curse" was broken when they defeated the los angeles dodgers 5–0 in game 6 of the 2016 national league championship series to win the nl pennant. the cubs then defeated the american league (al) champion cleveland indians 8–7 in 10 innings in game 7 to win the 2016 world series, 108 years after their last win.
curse of the billy goat