Punches Were Harder in the Good Old Days

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Fighting has always be a part of baseball, but things are nowhere near as bad as they were in the supposedly good old days. Over the course of less than a year in the early 1930s there were three particularly nasty incidents that time has largely forgotten and that modern scraps look tame in comparison.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/sp...spotlight.html