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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Guileful Magician | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...Ty 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Guileful Magician | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...razor-sharp spikes flashing high, Cobb gave baseball some of its most memorable moments. He stole 892 bases, 96 in a single season (1915). Three times he stole all the way home from first base, and once, recalls Casey Stengel, he scored from third on an infield pop fly: "Ty just waited until the infielder got ready to throw to the pitcher-and then he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Guileful Magician | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

Even with the help of an interpreter, the Vietnamese understood very little of what L.B.J. was saying, but they seemed to be enjoying it thoroughly. A spontaneous cheer went up-a rare event among the normally undemonstrative Vietnamese. Looking on in wonderment was General Le Van Ty, commander in chief of South Viet Nam's army. "C'est magnifique!" he murmured. "C'est la démocratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: C'est Magnifique | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Last May the federal district court in New Orleans ordered public schools in Orleans Parish-New Orleans and vicini ty-to integrate their first grades this fall. To get around the ruling, Davis' legislature passed laws vesting in itself the sole authority to reclassify the state's white and Negro schools, and empowering the Governor to seize schools to prevent any court-directed integration. Under those provisions, Davis last week, by executive order, took personal control of Orleans Parish schools and authorized Su perintendent James F. Redmond, as the Governor's "agent," to open schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Block Those Kids! | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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