Ty Cobb
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"Baseball," liked to say, "is something like a war...Baseball is a red-
blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's not pink tea, and mollycoddles had
better stay out of it. It's...a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the
fittest" (Ward and Burns 64). Although was possibly the greatest player
in baseball history, many people would co ....
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.... with 2,245 and the highest
lifetime batting average at .367, a number nearly unreachable even in just one
season by today's standards. Other records he set that have since been broken:
3,034 games played, 4,191 hits, 892 stolen bases, 392 outfield assists, 1,136
extra base hits, and 1,961 runs batted in. He also struck out just 357 times in
11,429 times at bat, a phenomenal achievement. After his career ended, in 1936,
he was the leading ....
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Number of words: 1754
Number of pages: 7 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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