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Essay Archive - Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb
"Baseball," Ty Cobb 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 Ty Cobb 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 t....
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