"During the 1890s, the Cleveland Spiders built a reputation as baseball's roughest club. The game devolved into a war in the Gay Nineties, rife with cheating, intimidation and violence on and off the field. The Spiders were the rowdiest team. Managed by Oliver "Patsy" Tebeau, a quick-fisted infielder, the Spiders cut a swath through the National League"--