Ty Cobb
"Baseball," liked to say, "is something like a war...Baseball is a red-
blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's not pink tea, and mollycoddles had
better stay out of it. It's...a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the
fittest" (Ward and Burns 64). Although was possibly the greatest player
in baseball history, many people would consider him its worst person. Tyrus
Raymond Cobb was born December 18, 1886 in The Narrows, Georgia. His parents
named him after the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre, which stubbornly refused to
surrender to Alexander the Great. From the very beginning, he took after the
city and became one of baseball's most stubborn and hated men. The Georgia ...
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with 2,245 and the highest
lifetime batting average at .367, a number nearly unreachable even in just one
season by today's standards. Other records he set that have since been broken:
3,034 games played, 4,191 hits, 892 stolen bases, 392 outfield assists, 1,136
extra base hits, and 1,961 runs batted in. He also struck out just 357 times in
11,429 times at bat, a phenomenal achievement. After his career ended, in 1936,
he was the leading vote-getter of the first class of the Baseball Hall of Fame,
beating even Babe Ruth. However, Cobb's career was marred with controversy and
scandals. He was hated by nearly every player in the league, including his own
teammates. When he was first called up to play with Detroit, he was extremely
unpopular with his teammates. They locked him out of the bathroom, tore the
crown out of his straw hat and sawed in half the bat that had been especially
fashioned for him by his hometown coffin maker. He did not take any of it with
good humor and ...
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replied, "I don't
care if he has no feet" (Wulf 45). When Cleveland catcher Nig Clarke kidded Cobb
that he had once applied a phantom tag to nail him at the plate, Cobb grabbed
Clarke's throat with such fury that it took three men to pull him off (Wulf 45).
Before he even reached the majors, Cobb tried to attract interest in himself by
writing false pseudonymous letters and postcards to famous sportswriter of the
time Grantland Rice, praising himself in an effort to be noticed and get called
up to the majors (Wulf 45). Cobb knew he was hated by most players around the
league, and on October 9, 1910, he found out just how much. Cobb and
Cleveland's Nap Lajoie were in a dead-heat tie for ...
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