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To: smoothsailing

He’d make Charlie Hustle look like a slacker.


5 posted on 03/02/2016 4:28:59 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

I recall reading a short bio of Ty Cobb and since he was a master of “small ball”, getting on base and your way working around via stealing and general base running skills, someone mocked him as being unable to pound home runs. Cobb supposedly said he’d show them and the next game knocked in something like 3 or 4 homers. Said ‘there ya go’ and went back to small ball because he preferred that style. Found that interesting, assuming it’s true.


8 posted on 03/02/2016 4:36:55 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Politics: from the greek "poly" [many] and the english "ticks" [blood sucking parasites])
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To: gorush

Old baseball lore has it that Cobb would file his spikes sharp before each game.


9 posted on 03/02/2016 4:39:52 PM PST by smoothsailing
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