Ty Cobb
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"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
i ....
Middle of paper
.... Detroit Tigers
and the Philadelphia Athletics, was arguably the best anyone ever had. He won
twelve batting titles in thirteen years, including a record nine in a row. He
also holds the records for the most runs scored 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 ....
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