Thursday, August 9, 2007

Ty Cobb - Baseball Legend

Ty Cobb was a MLB player who was born in 1886 and past away in 1961. He played from 1905 to 1928 spending mostly all of his career with Detroit. He is truely one of baseballs greatest legends. Ty Cobb had a theory that "baseball is not unlike a war" and he played the game by that theory with a burning rage. Much of the demons bottled up in him stemmed from a family trageyy that occured when he was a young boy. His mother shot and killed his father as he tried to enter their home through the bedroom window, she thought he was a burglar. This cared young Cobb forever and he was to play every one of his 3,033 games with a smoldering fire in his belly, playing each game as if it were his last. Ty Cobbs long list of accomplishments include twelve batting titles, most game View the rest of this article


No comments: