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...from Broadway. But in the inbred lore of baseball, 1905 will always be the year in which Manager Bill Armour of the Detroit Tigers, on a sultry afternoon in August, beckoned to a gawky, 18-year-old rookie who had arrived just the day before from Augusta, Ga. "Hey, Cobb," he shouted, "look alive, and start warming up. You take Dick Cooley's place in centerfield today...
...first time he came to bat, against the New York Highlanders, Ty Cobb doubled off famed Spitballer Jack Chesbro and drove in a run. Unfortunate Dick Cooley, who was ill, never got his job back. For the next 24 years-22 with Detroit, two with Philadelphia-brawling, champagne-swigging Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the son of a mild-mannered Georgia state senator, batted, ran and fought his way through the American League with durability, skill and brazenness unmatched in the history of baseball...
...Cobb played in 3,033 games, a record that no player has approached-or probably ever will. In the era of faraway fences and the "dead" baseball, when spitballs and beanballs were everyday hazards, Cobb set 13 batting records that have never been bettered. Among them: highest lifetime batting average (.367), most base hits (4,191), most total bases (5,863), most singles (3,052), most years batting over .300 (23). He batted over .400 three times, led the American League in hitting twelve times and nine years...
Curious Crouch. Hunched into his curious, knock-kneed crouch, holding his thick-handled bat like a broomstick (with his hands six inches apart), Cobb was a remarkably versatile hitter. He could bunt, hit line drives or ground balls, place his hits almost at will. Never noted as a longball hitter, he nevertheless led the American League in home runs in 1909 (with nine), once hit five in two consecutive games-a mark Babe Ruth never matched. Asked to compare Cobb and Ruth, Cleveland Outfielder Tris Speaker once said: "Babe was a great ballplayer, but Cobb was even greater. Ruth could...
...rivals box him in and keep him from winning? The Butler dropped back briefly at the ¼mile pole, then surged in front again. Four horses, as if working in relays, came up to challenge him, but the Butler kept his lead to win in 1:59.6. Says Eddie Cobb, the Butler's stocky, 198-lb. driver and part owner: "It probably makes me harder on the horse, trying to keep him in the clear. But he stands up under...