Ty Cobb’s Death – Cause and Date

The baseball player Ty Cobb died at the age of 74. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Legendary Detroit Tigers outfielder known as “The Georgia Peach” who had an astounding .367 lifetime batting average. He won 12 batting titles, including 9 in a row between 1907 to 1915.

He divorced twice and lost two of his three sons prematurely.

Quotes

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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.” (Ty Cobb)

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“Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.” (Ty Cobb)

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“Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.” (Ty Cobb)

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“I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.” (Ty Cobb)

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“I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.” (Ty Cobb)