When the Tigers went on strike in 1912, nine amatuers took their place. The man who filled Ty Cobb’s spot remained unknown for many years thanks to a baffling mess of misspellings and abbreviations of his name in the box scores. […]

When the Tigers went on strike in 1912, nine amatuers took their place. The man who filled Ty Cobb’s spot remained unknown for many years thanks to a baffling mess of misspellings and abbreviations of his name in the box scores. […]