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Jugador de béisbol estadounidense (1886–1961)
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Tyrus Raymond Cobb, apodado "the Georgia Peach", fue un jardinero central profesional de béisbol estadounidense. Nativo de la zona rural de Narrows, Georgia, Cobb jugó 24 temporadas en las Grandes Ligas de Béisbol (MLB). Pasó 22 años con los Detroit Tigers y sirvió como jugador-mánager del equipo durante los últimos seis, y terminó su carrera con los Philadelphia Athletics. En 1936, Cobb recibió la mayor cantidad de votos de cualquier jugador en la votación inaugural para el Salón de la Fama Nacional de Béisbol, recibiendo 222 de un posible 226 votos (98.2%); ningún otro jugador recibió un mayor porcentaje de votos hasta Tom Seaver en 1992. En 1999, The Sporting News clasificó a Cobb en el tercer lugar de su lista de "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
“Why not? 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.”
“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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