On a Wednesday afternoon in Chicago on April 14, veteran manager Hughie Jennings led his fourteenth Tigers team into action against the White Sox at the original Comiskey Park to begin a brand new decade of baseball.
The Sox were the defending American League champions. The Tigers finished fourth in 1919, eight games back, but some observers saw potential for much more as the new season approached. Writer Robert W. Maxwell was among those helming the hype machine. In a Brooklyn Daily Eagle series previewing all sixteen major league teams, he wrote,
“…As far back as 1916, it was a common belief that this baseball club representing Detroit consisted of Tyrus Cobb and several other persons who comprised minor parts.