Celebrating century of player power with a lockout

TY COBB, part pioneer and part embarrassing stain on the long history of baseball, could teach Andy Gray and Richard Keys a thing or two about seething intolerance.

As America’s pastime grew in popularity at the dawn of the 20th century, the Detroit Tigers outfielder was the game’s first major superstar, setting records which either still stand or took a long time to be bettered.