After leaving the team without permissions three days prior, Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb got married to his first wife, Charlie, on August 6, 1908. Club co-owner Frank Navin considered Cobb’s six-day absence during a pennant race the most arrogant act he had ever heard of in baseball.
Cobb was quite a character.
I always thought that Frank Navin once owned the Detroit Tigers and the ball park. For some reason I thought that Walter O. Briggs purchased the team and ball park from Frank Navin. Now I’m hearing that they were partners. Any oficianados out there ??