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The Paper Tigers: The untold true story of how eight guys from the streets of Philadelphia became major league baseball players for one day

By Greg Klein, Andy Brown (Illustrator)
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By Greg Klein, Andy Brown (Illustrator)
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In spring of 1912, weeks after the Titanic sunk, Ty Cobb climbed into the stands of New York's Hilltop Park and nearly beat to death a crippled fan who called him the n-word. After American League President Ban Johnson suspended Cobb, his Detroit Tiger teammates went on strike to support him. Forced to field a team or else, Tiger manager Hughie "Ee-yah" Jennings went to the streets of Philadelphia to field a team. The one day ringers were dismissed as losers, but they were also the luckiest...