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Detroit Tigers All Time Center Fielder |
Ty Cobb
1905 - 1928
3034 games, 118 home runs, .366 batting average
| "A Columbia University professor, lecturing on Ty Cobb, said that if he'd entered banking he'd have been a leading American banker; if he'd gone into politics he'd have become president . . . He'd have been number one at whatever field he chose." |
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-- Harry Golden, 1959
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| Among the inital five players to be inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame, "The Georgia Peach" is regarded as the best ballplayer of the "deadball era." Winning a record 12 American League batting titles (a record that has not been closely approached nor is likely to be broken), Cobb topped the .400 mark three times. He remains the Tigers' all-time leader in at-bats (10,586), runs (2,087), hits (3,902), doubles (664), triples (286), RBIs (1,805), total bases (5,471), stolen bases (865), on-base percentage (.424), and batting average (.366). An early Coca Cola invester, Cobb was worth 12 million dollars at the time of his death. Due to the fact that many of his opponents and the media disliked Cobb, stories about his violent nature and racist attitudes have persisted. |
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