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Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
Don't come home a failure.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.... (more Ty Cobb quotes)
Ty Cobb led the American League in runs scored five different times. Cobb was the MLB career leader in runs scored as of his retirement after the 1928 season.
Cobb was a player manager from 1921-1926 amassing a 479-444 record and a .519 winning percentage.
Cobb drove in 1,937 runs in his career topping 100 RBIs 7 times. His career high was 127 in 1911.
Cobb is one of a handful of Hall of Famers with more career triples (295) than home runs (117)... (more Ty Cobb trivia)
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