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