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Originally posted by greymule
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.
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The first incident you refer is the infamous May 1912 Clyde Leuker incident inwhich Cobb went into the stands at N.Y.'s old Hilltop Park (then the home of the Yankees)and beat the crap out of this guy Leuker( who had been heckling Cobb unmercifully,calling his sister a half n****er,among other things)..who was missing three fingers on one hand,and totally missing his other hand. This WAS a serious incident,with Cobb being suspended 'indefinitely' by Ban Johnson the AL founder/president. This led to the Detroit players striking in support of Cobb,which also led to the infamous Detroit 'scab' game,where the Tiger owners hired some semi-pros to play the Athletics in Philly...losing of course 24-2....Cobb ended up with a 10 game suspension...