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
Her hope is to be able to pursue her planned retirement from two decades of distinguished public service to do community service law.
I had pencil and paper ready and put my hand out to sign,
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.
The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
The crowd makes the ballgame.
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.