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Tyrus Raymond Cobb , zvaný Ty Cobb nebo The Georgia Peach, byl americký baseballista, který hrál 24 sezón v Major League Baseball na pozici vnějšího polaře. S klubem Detroit Tigers vyhrál v letech 1907 až 1909 třikrát po sobě American League, získal Major League Baseball Triple Crown 1909 a v roce 1911 byl vyhlášen nejužitečnějším hráčem ligy. Má nejvyšší pálkařský průměr v historii MLB .367, dvanáctkrát byl nejlepším pálkařem ligy . V celé kariéře zaznamenal 4191 úspěšných odpalů , 117 homerunů a 892 ukradených met. Od roku 1922 působil jako hrající trenér v Detroitu a poté ve Philadelphia Athletics. Kariéru ukončil v září 1928. Díky dobře investovaným výdělkům a výhodné reklamní smlouvě s firmou The Coca-Cola Company patřil k nejbohatším sportovcům své doby.Proslul velmi agresivním stylem hry, k němuž patřily dlouhé a dosti bezohledné skluzy na metu. Také v soukromí byl známý panovačným a násilnickým chováním i četnými rasistickými excesy, i když podle biografie, kterou o Cobbovi napsal Charles Leershen, byla většina těchto historek silně nadsazených.V roce 1936 byl zvolen do Baseballové síně slávy, získal největší počet hlasů v historii . V anketě o nejlepšího baseballistu všech dob, kterou roku 1998 uspořádal časopis Sporting News, skončil na třetím místě za Babe Ruthem a Willie Maysem.Skupina Soundgarden napsala píseň „Ty Cobb“, v níž používá jeho jméno jako symbol vulgarity a arogance. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. prosinec 1886 – 17. červenec 1961
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“Joe's swing was purely natural, he was the perfect hitter.”

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On Shoeless Joe Jackson, as quoted in Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball (2008) by Harvey Frommer, p. 72
Kontext: Joe's swing was purely natural, he was the perfect hitter. He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. … he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.

“I'm going to steal every base on you today.”

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Zdroj: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 12 : The Ultimate Secret : Make them Beat Themselves or Waging War on the Base Paths, p. 161
Kontext: As a base-runner, I had some pretty radical ideas. Some said I was crazy to take such chances; others were beginning to suspect that maybe I had something. My counter to Criger's challenge had to be something unusual. And when we opened the first Boston series of '08, I watched the Young-Criger battery carefully before coming to the plate. Then I told Criger, "I'm going to steal every base on you today." … On four straight Young pitches, beginning with my single, I'd completed a tour of Boston bases. Our man at bat hadn't taken his club off his shoulder while I was coming around. Criger had been deflated in the worst possible way that can happen to a catcher — I'd told him exactly what I intended to do, and still gotten away with it.

“As a base-runner, I had some pretty radical ideas.”

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Zdroj: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 12 : The Ultimate Secret : Make them Beat Themselves or Waging War on the Base Paths, p. 161
Kontext: As a base-runner, I had some pretty radical ideas. Some said I was crazy to take such chances; others were beginning to suspect that maybe I had something. My counter to Criger's challenge had to be something unusual. And when we opened the first Boston series of '08, I watched the Young-Criger battery carefully before coming to the plate. Then I told Criger, "I'm going to steal every base on you today." … On four straight Young pitches, beginning with my single, I'd completed a tour of Boston bases. Our man at bat hadn't taken his club off his shoulder while I was coming around. Criger had been deflated in the worst possible way that can happen to a catcher — I'd told him exactly what I intended to do, and still gotten away with it.

“After that, the responsibility for the catch is yours.”

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Zdroj: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 17 : You Field with Your Head Too, p. 224
Kontext: Most collisions out on the fields are needless. Keep your ears open while you're concentrating on running toward the ball and stick to the tested formula, boys. When you shout "I'll take it!" or "I've got it!" shout it loudly and clearly. Give that signal the instant you feel the play belongs to you and not your team-mate. After that, the responsibility for the catch is yours. If you call for it, you have the confidence to play the ball, knowing you are on your own and safe from injury. The collision hazard is eliminated almost entirely.

“Most collisions out on the fields are needless.”

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Zdroj: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 17 : You Field with Your Head Too, p. 224
Kontext: Most collisions out on the fields are needless. Keep your ears open while you're concentrating on running toward the ball and stick to the tested formula, boys. When you shout "I'll take it!" or "I've got it!" shout it loudly and clearly. Give that signal the instant you feel the play belongs to you and not your team-mate. After that, the responsibility for the catch is yours. If you call for it, you have the confidence to play the ball, knowing you are on your own and safe from injury. The collision hazard is eliminated almost entirely.

“I'd told him exactly what I intended to do, and still gotten away with it.”

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Zdroj: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 12 : The Ultimate Secret : Make them Beat Themselves or Waging War on the Base Paths, p. 161
Kontext: As a base-runner, I had some pretty radical ideas. Some said I was crazy to take such chances; others were beginning to suspect that maybe I had something. My counter to Criger's challenge had to be something unusual. And when we opened the first Boston series of '08, I watched the Young-Criger battery carefully before coming to the plate. Then I told Criger, "I'm going to steal every base on you today." … On four straight Young pitches, beginning with my single, I'd completed a tour of Boston bases. Our man at bat hadn't taken his club off his shoulder while I was coming around. Criger had been deflated in the worst possible way that can happen to a catcher — I'd told him exactly what I intended to do, and still gotten away with it.

“I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different.”

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Statement made in 1961, as quoted in Voices from Cooperstown : Baseball's Hall of Famers Tell It Like It Was (1998) by Anthony J. Connor, p. 286
Kontext: I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.

“When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.”

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Zdroj: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 23 : "To Plant One Rose —", p. 280
Kontext: When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. To me it wasn't parchesi played under parchesi rules. Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?
Many a writer has said that I was "unfair." Well, that's not my understanding of the word. When my toes were stepped on, I stepped right back.

“Williams is one batter I thought would break my lifetime batting average of.367. If he'd learned to hit to left, Ted would have broken every record in the book.”

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On Ted Williams, as quoted in "Here's the Pitch" by Frank Finch, in The Los Angeles Times (June 5, 1958), p. C2

“I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which he changed baseball — from a game of science to an extension of his powerful slugging — but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew. No one ever loved life more. No one ever inspired more youngsters. I have reverence for his marvelous ability. I look forward to meeting him again some day.”

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On Babe Ruth, in Ch. 16 : The Babe and I, p. 222
My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

“Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man, in my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life.”

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Responding to the impending integration of the Dallas Rangers, as quoted in "Between the Lines" http://www.mediafire.com/view/e8dga7hnpbb7tzk/BETWEEN_THE_LINES_THE_GREAT_T(2).jpg by Dean Gordon Hancock (ANP), in The Atlanta Daily World (February 10, 1952); reproduced in "The Knife in Ty Cobb’s Back" http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-knife-in-ty-cobbs-back-65618032/ (30 August 2011), Smithsonian, by Gilbert King.

“On the diamond, I had been rough on Babe. I'd never taken my spurs out of his hide and one day he'd come looking for me in the Detroit clubhouse with fistic mayhem in mind. We'd won and lost duels to each other way back since 1915, when Babe had been a rookie pitcher with Bill Carrigan's Boston Red Sox. To add heat to the situation, some press association or other was always holding a poll to pick between Ruth and Cobb as the all-time star player.”

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On Babe Ruth, in Ch. 16 : The Babe and I, p. 214
My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

“I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.”

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Zdroj: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 5 : "Bugs" — That First Bitter Series — $5000 or Bust, p. 76

“A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.”

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Zdroj: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 5 : "Bugs" — That First Bitter Series — $5000 or Bust, p. 81