>1912>be Ty Cobb>play game on the road in New York>fan heckling you from the stands>calls you a half-nigger>seethe so uncontrollably hard you jump into the stands to kill him>punch him to the ground and stomp on his head multiple times>cops have to pull you off>get suspended by the commissioner indefinitely>he fines you $50>all 18 teammates go on strike to protest your suspension>strike doesn't last a week>get reinstated because it's understandable why you were upset>finish the season with a league best .409 average
>be Ty Cobb>steal a black kid>keep him under your bed while you sleep for good luck
>be Ty Cobb>Sharpen your cleats to be as pointy as possible> Slide cleats up into baseman's face
>>154835165doesn't surprise me. you can tell from his face he belongs to the criminal class
>>154834678>be Ty Cobb>spend 4/5ths of your career in the dead ball era>bat .3662 lifetime>invest in Coca Cola>spend your retirement years driving around America with a million dollars in securities and a Luger just in case someone recognizes you>Complain that nobody recognizes youHe was the alpha cranky old codger as well as ball player. It’s rare someone can be the GOAT in two disciplines>alsoI just rewatched Ken burns baseball as well OP, historical baseball thread?
>be Ted Williams>renounce your mom so that people don't know you are half mexican
>>154834678>calls you a half-niggerWhy was that an insult?
>>154834678>get called nigger lips>by Ty Cobb>actually make a World Series>become more popular and beloved than Ty Cobb>become the most renowned baseball player in history supplanting Ty Cobb>lay more pipe than the New York City public works department >consume 2/3rds of the alcohol produced during prohibition >become the most beloved athlete in the history of sportsRuth was infinitely more based, as he was unbothered
>Three weeks after his mother killed his father, Cobb debuted in center field for the Detroit Tigers. On August 30, 1905, in his first major league at bat, he doubled off Jack Chesbro of the New York Highlanders.
>>154840327Because he wasn't a zoomer
>>154834678I posted in a different thread, but this was my favorite quote from Stump's biography on Cobb.>: "Lake Tahoe friends of Cobb's had stopped visiting him long before, but one morning an attractive blonde of about fifty came calling. She was an old chum- in a romantic way I was given to understand, in bygone years- but Ty greeted her coldly. 'Lost my sexual powers when I was sixty-nine,' he said when she was out of the room. 'What the hell use to me is a woman?'
What's wrong, punk? Triggered over a few word-ACK!!!
>>154840244>be me>win 2 World Series>win 3 AL MVPs >win the triple crown>go to 9 all star games>be remembered for the short time you coached ladies baseball
>>154840798Cobb was a jerkoff, Ruth was a stud
Old school baseball is like>Legendary pitcher Bartholomew "Bumpy Knees" Clobbsmith had a legendary 1916 season, batting .567 and putting up a .006 ERA due in large part to his famous "slimeball", a pitch slathered in mud, boogers, and diarrhea. 94 games that year were played against the Utica Gravel Mongers (1915-1917) and Dolgeville Newborn Babies (1916-1917), wherein 30 out of the 40 regular players left to fight in World War 1, replaced with groundskeepers of their respective ballparks and employees from the local mortuary. In the sixth series against the Newborn Babies in April of 1916, Bumpy Knees managed to turn seven in field hits into doubles through his incredible speed and iconic for the time method of punching the second baseman in the face. In July of 1917 Bumpy was embroiled in a gambling scandal where it was alleged the Schenectady Turkey Gizzards, his team at the time, threw a series against the Gravel Mongers at the request of Irish criminal Sean "Mick" O'McShaughnosean. Bumpy went 0-20 in the series, spinning 360 degrees on each swing and/or dropping his bat while the pitch was being thrown. Charges were never filed.>He was unanimously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame his first year of eligibility. He died at the age of 98 at his home in Palo Alto, California.
>>154834678>be me>play baseball in the 1870s>win first World Series>invent spring training >win 5 pennants in 7 seasons>win two batting titles>win the rbi crown 7 times >win a quintuple crown in 1881>die in 1929>first line in Wikipedia article readsAnson played a role in establishing the racial segregation in professional baseball that persisted until the late 1940s.
>>154840147Ty Cobb is quite possibly the most based player in baseball history.
>>154854175Nah Cobb is in 6th place with 5800 total bases. Hank Aaron is over 6800
>>154850514>die from choking on a piece of steak
None of these honkies would be able to carry water in the Negro Leagues.
>>154854217Worse ways to go I guess
>>154854213yea, but he makes more people seethe which makes him more based.
>>154854234>whites didn’t carry water for blacks in the negro leagueYeah anon, that’s not how segregation works
>>154834678you forgot the last one>still remain a half-nigger
>>154854252Between revisionist history liberals upset that a man in 20s was a rascist and snowflake crackers who couldn’t comprehend a black guy beating Ruth’s home run record id say they’re pretty equitable, but then again ty Cobb made even his own teammates hate him so yeah, he wins.>alsoHow bout that frictionless slide into the catchers crotch
>be Rube Waddell >kill pigeons with rocks as a kid. get asked to become a pitcher because of your otherworldly combination of accuracy and velocity>have absolutely no idea how to field ground balls, which is fine because you consistently threw no-hitters>eventually become a major leaguer>get easily hypnotized by shiny objects that the opposing fans would bring to games>get distracted by puppies to the point that you walk off the mound and halt the game just so you could pet them>whenever you hear a firetruck, you dart full speed out of the stadium and chase it>also become an actor and tour the country during the offseason, where you ad-lib 100% of your lines for no reason
>>154834678based cobb racism is NOT ok
>>154854163>What do you mean there's consequences in the historical record for casting some of baseball's greatest talents to the sidelines?Making Satchel wait until he was in his 40s to become a major leaguer just by itself ought to make one persona non grata.
>>154850791Respect for the effort of this post. I assume it is hilarious.
>>154854337Now this is the based kind of autism.
>>154854252I don’t remember Ty Cobb ever making people so mad he put up with a sustained death threat campaign or worried he'd get sniped while circling the bases.
>>154854531Sure but Judge landis did that, not cap Anson retard. You’re clutching pearls over some guy believing in segregation in the 1880s
>be me>hit 191 RBIs>in 1 season That’s all
>>154854981absolute hack
>>154854163It is best to start out with your most meaningful contribution to the game.
>>154854337Browns masot?
>>154854558It wasn’t
>>154834678>>get suspended by the commissioner indefinitelyThere was no commissioner of baseball in 1912. Cobb was suspended by the league president, Ban Johnson. The Tigers players then went on strike in sympathy with Cobb. Tigers management responded by hiring local semi-pro players to replace them and forcing 46 year old manager Hughie Jennings to play or face a $5000 fine for failing to field a team. The game was won by the Philadelphia Athletics 26-2. The resulting farce forced Cobb to urge his teammates to end the walkout or risk permanent suspension from Johnson. Johnson responded by reducing Cobb's suspension to ten days.
>>154834678>be me>save baseball>twice
>>154840147Who's the guy on the left and why is he attacking Flatt and Scruggs?
>>154854245>Decide to cover the plate in your at bat>take an 88 mph fastball to the dome>die>start the big bat eraMost influential player in baseball tantamount to Carl Mays
>>154854578Then you don’t remember Ty cobb
>>154862545>be Carl Mays>batter who has a notorious tendency to crowd the plate crowds the plate>Option 1: brush him off the plate and re-open the strike zone>Option 2: kill him
>>154862545vaxx status?
>>154863482Yet to be invented
Bump
>>154854558It almost was, but went on for too long.
