Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb, nicknamed "The Georgia Peach", was an American Major League Baseballoutfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1936 Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes; no other player received a higher percentage of votes until...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth18 December 1886
CityNarrows, GA
CountryUnited States of America
I've got to be first. ALL the time.
The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.