something like a war…Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red –blooded men. It’s not pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out of it. It’s…a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. – Ty Cobb (Ward, 82) Cobb was diagnosed in the fall of 1959 with cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, an enlarged prostate, and Bright’s disease, which is a degenerative kidney disorder. He Your name 7returned to his Lake Tahoe lodge with painkillers and bourbon to try to ease his pain, which was constant. He did not trust his initial diagnosis, however, so he went to Georgia to seek advice from doctors he knew, and they found his prostate to be cancerous. They removed it at Emory hospital, but that did little to help Cobb. From this point until the end of his life, Cobb basically criss-crossed the country, going from his lodge in Tahoe to the hospital in Georgia. He checked into the Emory hospital for the last time in June, 1961, bringing with him a million or so dollars in securities and his Luger pistol. This time his first wife, Charlie and his son, Jimmy and other family members came to be with him for his final days. His final day came a month later, July 17, 1961. His funeral was perhaps the saddest event connected with Cobb. From all of baseball, the sport that he had dominated for over 20 years, only three old players and Sid Keener from the Hall of Fame came. He had outlived many of his contemporaries, but had alienated most of the others, so a lot of them were glad that he was finally dead (Ty Cobb home page).o The honorable and honest Cobb blood … never will be subjected, it bows to no wrong nor to any man … the Cobbs have their ideals and God help anyone who strives to bend a Cobb away from such. – Ty Cobb (Ward, 82) Even though Ty Cobb was less than socialable polite, considered brutally malicient, he was one of the greatest base b...
