Many people still call Ty Cobb the greatest baseball player of all time. My opinion is that such statements are foolish. All you can of any athlete is that he or she is greatest of his or her time. In the so-called dead ball pre-Babe Ruth era you can authoritatively say that Cobb was the best. I am enjoying this new biography of the Georgia Peach.
Cobb was the best hitter of his time, but his split-handed slap hitting wouldn't work today.
I suspect his wild base running wouldn't work today either.
My conclusion so far is that Ty Cobb was a baseball player of his time.
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