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Detroit Tigers All Time Center Fielder Ty Cobb |
| ". . . the greatest of all ballplayers -- and an absolute shit." |
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-- Ernest Hemingway, 1948
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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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