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Ty Cobb - Baseball Legend |
Ty Cobb was a MLB player who was born in 1886 and past away in 1961. He played from 1905 to 1928 spending mostly all of his career with Detroit. He is truely one of baseballs greatest legends. Ty Cobb had a theory that "baseball is not unlike a war" and he played the game by that theory with a burning rage. Much of the demons bottled up in him stemmed from a family trageyy that occured when he was a young boy. His mother shot and killed his father as he tried to enter their home through the bedroom window, she thought he was a burglar. This cared young Cobb forever and he was to play every one of his 3,033 games with a smoldering fire in his belly, playing each game as if it were his last. Ty Cobbs long list of accomplishments include twelve batting titles, most games played, highest lifetime batting average (.367); twenty three consecutive .300 seasons, most runs scored and the list goes on and on. Ty Cobb once admitted that he was nothing more than a average .300 hitter but it was his speed that allowed him to beat out bunts and scratch hits and that allowed another 50 or 60 points to be added to his batting average. Sure, there were many players who could out run Cobb in a 100 yard dash but there was no one who could run the 360 feet of a diamond faster than he did. He was described by opposing players as having lightning fast reflexes. Cleveland manager Lee Fohl once said that Ty Cobb would steal everything but your uniforms. One of his main trademarks was intimidation, he would sit in the Detroit Tiger dugout before the game sharpning his spikes or participate in that old baseball tradition of bench jockeying, pointing out defects in his opponents spiritual makeup and liberally adding refrences to their ancestry. He was a fighter too, he would challenge fans, umpires and even teamates to a fistfight, he would fight anyone. Ty Cobb may have been the most dominant player to ever play the game during his twenty four year baseball career.
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