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By 1920, Babe Ruth, sold to the renamed New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox, had established himself as a power hitter, something Cobb was not considered to be. When his Tigers showed up in New York to play the Yankees for the first time that season, writers billed it as a showdown between two stars of competing styles of play.
- Ty Cobb (Attorney)
Ty Cobb (born 1950) is an American lawyer. He was an...
- Narrows, Georgia
Narrows is an unincorporated community in Banks County,...
- Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993),...
- Cobb Memorial Hospital
The Ty Cobb Healthcare System in Royston in the US state of...
- Shoeless Joe Jackson
Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951),...
- Honus Wagner
Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner (/ ˈ h ɒ n ə s ˈ w æ ɡ n ər /...
- Boss Schmidt
Charles "Boss" Schmidt (September 12, 1880 – November 14,...
- 3,000-Hit Club
Pete Rose is the all-time MLB hits leader with 4,256 hits.....
- AL Batting Champion
Ty Cobb won more batting titles than any other player,...
- Grantland Rice
Rice at Vanderbilt University in 1901. Rice was born in...
- Ty Cobb (Attorney)
Cobb and Ruth's stats were both incredible. Cobb has always had Ruth outnumbered in records, but Ruth equaled Cobb in producing runs which, to me, helps to determine the value of a...
Dec 14, 2020 · Led by player-manager Ty Cobb, the third-place Tigers met the second-place Yankees for a four-game series in mid-June of 1921 at the Polo Grounds, hoping to leapfrog Babe Ruth and Co. in the American League standings. Only two games separated the teams, while the first-place Cleveland Indians led New York by just 2½ games.
May 8, 2015 · In an excerpt from his new biography "Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty," Charles Leerhsen examines Cobb's rivalry with Babe Ruth as the Dead Ball era came to a close and a new style of baseball...
- Charles Leerhsen
On September 20, "Babe Ruth Day" at Fenway Park, Ruth won the game with a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, tying Williamson. He broke the record four days later against the Yankees at the Polo Grounds, and hit one more against the Senators to finish with 29.
Aug 26, 2017 · August 25, 2017. On this date 102 years ago, second-year Red Sox hurler Babe Ruth took the mound against Ty Cobb and the Detroit Tigers. Ruth entered the game with a 12-6 record and a...
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Sep 12, 1985 · In the 1920s, Cobb frequently derided the transformation of baseball from a finesse game to a Babe Ruth-inspired power game. He all but sneered at Babe Ruth’s home runs.
