By finishing last in the AHBL in 1903, the Worcester Hearts got the #1 pick and drafted 17 year-old Ty Cobb. This means Cobb will join Sam Crawford in the outfield (which might be trouble) and be on the same club as Addie Joss and Mordecai Brown. Could be quite a good club in a couple years.
Interesting that Cobb went first because he is only 17 in the game and I am a little surprised he would have been viewed as the superstar he would becom,e at the time in mid-1904. In the real MLB it seems, if I am reading the SABR biography correctly, that Cobb's playing in exhibition games against the Tigers was a difference-maker in his signing.
"The year 1905 was to be a fateful one for Cobb. He reported to Augusta for spring training, and got the chance to play in two exhibition games against the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers trained in Augusta in return for an option to purchase one player from the Augusta team at a later date. Cobb made an impression on the Tigers with his talent and his aggressive, even reckless, style of play."
