Ty Cobb

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 ? July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach", was an American baseball player generally considered to be the greatest player

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of the "dead ball era" (1900 ? 1920), although some contemporary observers would have chosen Honus Wagner or Tris Speaker. Cobb is also famous for being a vitriolic racist (even supposedly shunning Babe Ruth for his allegedly black facial characteristics). For many years arguments raged as to whether he or Babe Ruth, diametrically opposite types of players, was the greatest player of all time. With the introduction of sabermetrics in the 1980s as a general method of examining players' worth, however, Cobb's star has dimmed somewhat. While he is still generally considered one of the dozen or so greatest players, few arguments are advanced that he was the single greatest player. When he retired in 1928 he was the holder of 90 major

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league records and he received the most votes of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1936.

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