Although his lifetime average of .367 and 12 batting titles have never even been approached, his pervasive image is that of a brutal, bigoted, friendless, haunted creature, a freeswinging, bourbon guzzling ogre who presumably tortured small animals . . .
"No period in American history witnessed a more-signigicant consolidation of economic activity into large firms than the Great Merger wave of 1895-1904."
Determined to "hurl red hell on his way to a score," Ty Cobb increasingly became more aggressive and imaginative during his first few seasons with the Detroit Tigers, exhibiting a lethal combination of speed, size, muscle, and guile.
