In what may have been baseball?s first labor strike, the Detroit Tigers
refuse to play after team leader Ty Cobb is suspended: he went into the
stands and beat a fan who had been heckling him. Cobb was reinstated and the
Tigers went back to work after the team manager?s failed attempt to replace
the players with a local college team: their pitcher gave up 24 runs - 1912
U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Samuel Gompers and other union leaders for supporting a boycott at the Buck Stove and Range Co. in St. Louis, where workers were striking for a nine-hour day. A lower court had forbidden the boycott and sentenced the unionists to prison for refusing to obey the judge?s anti-boycott injunction - 1906