Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb, nicknamed "The Georgia Peach", was an American Major League Baseballoutfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1936 Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes; no other player received a higher percentage of votes until...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth18 December 1886
CityNarrows, GA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . 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.