Ty Cobb was suspended for ten days during the 1912 baseball season. Cobb was disciplined for beating Claude Lucker, a fan who had been heckling him during the four-game series between Cobb's Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees. Cobb was ejected from the game on May 15, 1912, and American League president Ban Johnson suspended him indefinitely. Cobb's teammates took his side, and after defeating the Philadelphia Athletics on May 17, told Johnson that they would not play again until Cobb was reinstated. Johnson refused to do so. Seeking to avoid a $5,000 fine, owner Frank Navin told manager Hughie Jennings to recruit a team; he did so. Facing the Athletics, baseball's World Champions, the replacement players, joined by Jennings and his coaches, lost 24–2, after which Cobb persuaded his teammates to return. They and Cobb were fined, but Navin paid. The walkout was baseball's first major league strike; it had little effect, but teams put additional security into stadiums.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_suspension_of_Ty_Cobb
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1567:
Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son, who became James VI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I
1959:
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. vice president Richard Nixon held an impromptu debate at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Debate
1974:
The Metapolitefsi period began with Konstantinos Karamanlis taking office as Prime Minister of Greece after the collapse of the military junta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metapolitefsi
1980:
The Australian swimming team, nicknamed the Quietly Confident Quartet, won the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_4_%C3%97_100_metre_medley_relay
2014:
Air Algérie Flight 5017 disappeared from radar shortly after take-off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; its wreckage was found the following day in Mali with no survivors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Alg%C3%A9rie_Flight_5017
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
unfathomable: 1. Impossible to fathom. 2. Especially of depth: physically incapable of being measured; immeasurable. 3. (figurative) Impossible to grasp the extent of, or to fully know or understand. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unfathomable
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. --John D. MacDonald https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_D._MacDonald