Reading a book about Ty Cobb. Surprisingly, seems that deliberate errors were commonplace in Cobb's day. Cobb himself was guilty of at least one. Cobb, being bullied by teammates including pitcher Ed Killian "finally repaid his sleights in kind, letting a ball hit off Matty's [Matt McIntyre] pal...Ed Killian...get by him in right field." Compare to modern day when such behavior is considered totally unacceptable. In evaluating Gary Sheffield's candidacy for the hall of fame, one sportswriter cited similar conduct as a reason not to vote in Sheffield. "Sheffield once admitted to purposefully making an error to prove a point, an act that, in the eyes at least one voter, makes him unworthy of a place in cooperstown".