Old Timers

[Donn Beach]

Good catch, yeah, Cobb was your "no fun guy", disciplined took his baseball seriously. Took his money seriously as well. Now his style be interesting, he was more ichiro than a Ruth. Felt Ruth had ruined baseball. Brett Boone was a drunk

[D-train]

Good catch, yeah, Cobb was your "no fun guy", disciplined took his baseball seriously. Took his money seriously as well. Now his style be interesting, he was more ichiro than a Ruth. Felt Ruth had ruined baseball. Brett Boone was a drunk

“I needed a drink. So I had one, and then another. I’d polish off a six-pack of beer and reach for another six-pack. Eventually I made the mistake of switching from beer to clear — from the slow, easy buzz of Bud Light or Miller Lite to the sharper edge of Absolut and Ketel One, a bottle at a time . . . Nobody knew how much I was drinking. To the baseball men I loved and trusted, it seemed like the usual late-career crisis.”

I know the feeling. Though I haven't drank since December 30th. Longest since Basic Training in 1986.

[ice99]

You could measure a fastball or a bullet with a 1000 fps camera.

[ice99]

They used computers when they landed on the moon.

[Donn Beach]

Well, it wasn't much of a computer

.To put that into more concrete terms, the latest phones typically have 4GB of RAM. That is 34,359,738,368 bits. This is more than one million (1,048,576 to be exact) times more memory than the Apollo computer had in RAM. The iPhone also has up to 512GB of ROM memory. That is 4,398,046,511,104 bits, which is seven million times more than that of the guidance computer.

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

Cobb can be partly credited for that growth, according to Leerhsen. Besides his fast-moving steals, he brought an aristocratic air to the ballplayer image. He was more educated, and he carried himself accordingly. While many of his hard-drinking counterparts played day games hung over after a rough night out, Cobb kept his distance. That made him more palatable to the public, but less palatable to his fellow ballplayers. "It was a source of tension," Leershen said. "In Washington, he'd go to the Library of Congress in his off hours to read, and that annoyed the hell out of them."

So it would seem.

Still doesn't mean he wouldn't have been thrown out for violent tendencies.
Still a great players, I just don't think he would have translated to todays athlete. Just imagine the tweets and social media shit by this guy.

[D-train]

Cobb can be partly credited for that growth, according to Leerhsen. Besides his fast-moving steals, he brought an aristocratic air to the ballplayer image. He was more educated, and he carried himself accordingly. While many of his hard-drinking counterparts played day games hung over after a rough night out, Cobb kept his distance. That made him more palatable to the public, but less palatable to his fellow ballplayers. "It was a source of tension," Leershen said. "In Washington, he'd go to the Library of Congress in his off hours to read, and that annoyed the hell out of them."

So it would seem.

Still doesn't mean he wouldn't have been thrown out for violent tendencies.
Still a great players, I just don't think he would have translated to todays athlete. Just imagine the tweets and social media shit by this guy.

Yeah, just like you can't be a good POTUS if you tweet. lol

Sorry but each of your posts is like a "Tell me you don't know anything about Ty Cobb" without just saying it.

https://www.sportscasting.com/ty-cobbs- ... ould-have/

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

So it would seem.

Still doesn't mean he wouldn't have been thrown out for violent tendencies.
Still a great players, I just don't think he would have translated to todays athlete. Just imagine the tweets and social media shit by this guy.

Yeah, just like you can't be a good POTUS if you tweet. lol

Sorry but each of your posts is like a "Tell me you don't know anything about Ty Cobb" without just saying it.

https://www.sportscasting.com/ty-cobbs- ... ould-have/

Well, thanks.
All I have ever heard/read about Cobb is that he was great, great, great, but everyone hated him. They didn't hate him because he was great, they hated him because he was more chaotic or a lose canon kind of guy. It was years ago that I followed baseball, but I seem to have read that he was willing to cheat, hurt other players, etc... just to win. Do you really believe that he would make it in todays game, IF he was truly like that?

Could hit for average,
Could steel a base like Ricky,
Could fight like Odor,
Could cheat with the best of them.
And I believe he is deserving to be in the HOF (he was in the first class, right?)

All I'm saying is if the rumors are true, he would have a hard time in todays game.

Good Read on Ty Cobb:

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainme ... /28765125/

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

Another interesting read on Ty Cobb.

https://tahoequarterly.com/looking-back ... r-at-tahoe

He sure beat up a lot of people.