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I've got to be first. ALL the time.

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Ty Cobb
Age: 74 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: July 17
Baseball Player
Narrows
Georgia
Tyrus Raymond Cobb
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The Georgia Peach
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No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
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The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.
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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.
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I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
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I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
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A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
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I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
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Most collisions out on the fields are needless.
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The crowd makes the ballgame.
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I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
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When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
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The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
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When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
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He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.
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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.
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When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.
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The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
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Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
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