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Creating the Ty Cobb T-206 Baseball Card
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Ty Cobb becomes larger than life on the baseball field, and James Buchanan Duke rises to the top of the tobacco industry leading his American Tobacco Company to dominate the market.
These two forces collide to create one of the most valuable baseball cards of all time. The T-206 Ty Cobb tobacco card.
Books -
'Ty Cobb, A Terrible Beauty' by Author Charles Leerhsen
'The Dukes of Durham' by Robert Franklin Durden
"TYRUS RAYMOND COBB WAS THE greatest hitter of them all, his .366 lifetime average over twenty-three and a half seasons still the highest ever recorded. This achievement is not traceable simply to superior hand eye coordination; what it shows most vividly is that Cobb understood how to hit in his particular baseball moment, just as Adrian Anson and George Herman Ruth, the offensive stars who bracketed him historically, understood (or intuited) how best to approach the discouraging art in theirs."
"His bag of tricks contained actual tricks. Cobb sometimes slid into second, howled in pain, asked for time, limped around, winced, howled some more and then lit out for third on the very next pitch. More central to his maddening running style, though, were his powers of observation, which could be employed from a stationary position." -Charles Leerhsen, Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
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