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therefore no potential lawsuits were laid

You can bet that by now every fan hit by a player in that melee in Detroit has a lawyer with visions of sugarplums dancing in his head.

Of course, the world has changed, but Ty Cobb once attacked a wheelchair-bound heckler. He also knifed a hotel employee who wouldn't let him in the service entrance late at night, fired shots at Philadelphia A's fans (who returned fire), and practically killed a black groundskeeper who had failed to remove his cap before greeting him good morning. As far as I know, there were no significant repercussions in any of those cases except that the Tigers agreed to pay the medical expenses of the hotel employee.