May 18, 1912 – The Detroit Tigers organization was livid with the American League Baseball brass. Their star player Ty Cobb had recently been suspended by the League for leaping the stadium railing and going up into the stands to assault an out-of-control fan that had launched a verbal assault on the player.
The Tigers in an act of protest for the suspension fielded a team of amateur players against the Philadelphia Athletics rather than the normal Tigers roster minus Cobb. Philadelphia showed no mercy on the lesser temp players in a 24-2 shellacking of the rag-tag Tigers.
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