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For most of the 1890s, the Cleveland Spiders were one of the National League's best teams. From 1892 to 1898, the Spiders'. 582 winning percentage ranked third in the league behind Boston (forerunners of the Braves) and the Baltimore Orioles. They never finished first but three times played in proto-World Series, which at the time pitted the first-place team against the second-place team. During that span, there were four of these matchups called the Temple Cup, which the Spiders won in 1895 by beating the Orioles.

Students of early baseball history will recall the famous Orioles teams of that era. Behind the battling, brawling ways of such legends as John McGraw and eventual Hall of Famers Willie Keeler, Hughie Jennings and Dan Brouthers, Ned Hanlon's Orioles featured a style of play that make the currently infamous Houston Astros look like a bunch of Mother Teresas.

Well, Baltimore's chief antagonist during those years was the Cleveland Spiders, who were almost as good and every bit as mean. Led by their popular player-manager, Patsy Tebeau, the Spiders and Orioles had a rivalry so fierce that when Cleveland visited Baltimore during the 1895 Temple Cup series, the Spiders had to receive a police escort to get into the ballpark. And they were still pelted by bottles, rotten fruit and other projectiles. The Spiders in general, and Tebeau in particular, were particularly dangerous to umpires.

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