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The Dugout: Ty Cobb Your Pants and Jacket

Earlier today, in a great example of PostmanE being PostmanE, Fanhouse reported on An Evening With Ty Cobb, your only opportunity this Spring to see an old man wearing a Tigers jersey in Central Florida assuming you don't run into Lou Whitaker at Disney World. If you haven't already, watch the video. In it, a guy who looks...

Spend a Day With Some Beardy Guy In a Tigers Jersey

In case you're wondering, this is some dude named Norm Coleman acting like Ty Cobb, a performance will apparently reprise soon at the Dining Hall at Tiger Town for the Detroit Tigers Foundation of Florida. Coleman is apparently a specialist in this sort of behavior, though it's difficult to tell when his own accent leaves...

Here Comes the Spring!

On Sunday night, as I watched Eli Manning's perfectly thrown fade fall gently into Plaxico Burress's hands in the corner of the end zone, three thoughts immediately flew through my head. They were, in order: 1. Holy crap! Plaxico Burress caught a fade in the corner of the end zone!!! (I'm a Steeler fan. This is an...

Ichiro Has 1,500 Hits

With his single off of Oakland's Lenny Dinardo in the second inning on Sunday, Ichiro Suzuki became the third fastest player in baseball history to reach 1,500 hits in his career. It took Suzuki only 1,060 games to get 1,500, which has only been bested by Al Simmons (1,040 games) and George Sisler (1,048). Ty Cobb took...

Youtube Takes Us Back ...

Let's go back. Back to the days before Youtube existed, back before Nolan Ryan started habitually decking people, back before steroids infected the American pastime ... back when racism was openly encouraged and black players were forced to play in their own league, regardless of talent. Those were the days. I'm being...

TyCobb News From the Web

05/23/12 The 20 Greatest Power Hitters Of All-Time Source: The Business Insider We all know that Barry Bonds hit more home runs than any other player in Major League Baseball history.
05/22/12 Words from the past prove the Coast's baseball affair Source: The Sun Herald - Biloxi MS "Ty Cobb, he was the next best thing to Babe Ruth. His being here made a lot of boys pick up baseballs to play."
05/19/12 Strike! The Shortest Baseball Walkout in History Source: The Pilot - Southern Pines NC There have been five strikes by Major League Baseball players and three lockouts by team owners since the American League formed in 1901 and joined with the 25-year-old National League to create the current MLB organization.
05/16/12 This Day in History: Ty Cobb beat the hell out of a fan Source: Comcast SportsNet Via BTF , we are reminded that today is the 96th anniversary of Ty Cobb doing something which, if today's Hall of Fame voters are to be believed, wasn't as bad as taking some HGH: he beat the hell out of a fan : My favorite part came right afterward.
05/07/12 MLB Notebook: Davis goes 0-for-8, earns win Source: MLB In 1911, Ty Cobb batted .420 and won the American League batting title.