According to The Wall Street Journal, Bayer started putting in the cotton in the early 1900s to keep those powdery pills in place so they wouldn't get knocked around in the bottle and break.

Bayer, whose U.S. headquarters is in Creve Coeur ... “I can’t sit by and let a bottle of a poisonous chemical just show up on the shelf where people can go, ‘OK, the EPA label is on there ...

It wasn't a spectacular game but it was intense. It was about bottle and battle, and then a little moment of magic that made ...