History
Timeline
| Baseballist MLB Violence Timeline | |||||||
| Date | Event | ||||||
| May 15, 1894 | John McGraw fights Tommy Tucker. | ||||||
| April 26, 1906 | John McGraw hits a fan. | ||||||
| July 28, 1907 | John McGraw fights a stadium security guard. | ||||||
| August 24, 1909 | Ty Cobb spikes Frank Baker. | ||||||
| May 15, 1912 | Ty Cobb attacks Claude Lueker in the stands. | ||||||
| May 18, 1914 | Ty Cobb spikes Dutch Leonard after being beaned by him. | ||||||
| May 18, 1914 | Ty Cobb throws bat at Carl Mays after being hit on the wrist by him. | ||||||
| March 30, 1917 | Ty Cobb spikes Buck Herzog. He later fights Herzog in a hotel. | ||||||
| June 8, 1917 | John McGraw splits the lip of Umpire Bill 'Lord' Byron. | ||||||
| August 16, 1920 | Ray Chapman beaned by Carl Mays. | ||||||
| September 24, 1921 | Ty Cobb beats umpire Billy Evans in a fight. | ||||||
| May 25, 1937 | Bump Hadley beans Mickey Cochrane, fracturing his skull in three places and ending the catcher's career. | ||||||
| October 8, 1939 | Charlie Keller kicks Ernie Lombardi in the groin when he crosses home plate. | ||||||
| May 25, 1952 | Billy Martin fights Jimmy Piersall in a tunnel under the stands. | ||||||
| September 21, 1958 | Ted Williams flings his bat into the stands, injuring Joe Cronin's housekeeper. | ||||||
| May 13, 1960 | Reds and Phillies brawl. | ||||||
| August 4, 1960 | Billy Martin fractures the orbital bone around Jim Brewer's right eye. | ||||||
| August 22, 1965 | Juan Marichal hits John Roseboro with a bat. | ||||||
| July 14, 1970 | Pete Rose injures Ray Fosse in home plate collision. | ||||||
| July 27, 1976 | Doc Ellis beans Reggie Jackson. | ||||||
| July 17, 1978 | Billy Martin nearly fights Reggie Jackson in the dugout. | ||||||
| May 11, 1991 | Albert Belle hits Jeff Pillar, a heckler, in the chest with a baseball. | ||||||
| July 24, 1993 | Vince Coleman tosses explosives at autograph seekers. | ||||||
| Oct. 11, 2003 | Pedro Martinez knocks Don Zimmer to the ground. | ||||||
| July 24, 2004 | Jason Varitek and Alex Rodriguez ejected after starting a base-clearing brawl. | ||||||
Sam Crawford holds the record for inside-the-park homers with 51.
