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Charles "Boss" Schmidt was an American professional baseball catcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball
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Schmidt in 1909
Detroit manager Hughie Jennings
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Tyrus Raymond Cobb, nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American professional baseball center fielder. A native of rural Narrows, Georgia, Cobb played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball. He spent 2
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…regularly using his right fist to divert baserunners from reaching home plate and sometimes simply punching his opponents. Schmidt had two fights with Ty Cobb. Their first clash came in Augusta, Georgia, in March 1907, when Schmidt alleged that Cobb was trying to chase a drunk groundskeeper into the Warren…
Faded sign at Narrows, Georgia, celebrating it as the birthplace of Ty Cobb, "The Georgia Peach"
Cobb ends a 1908 holdout by signing a $5,000 contract (equivalent to $179,170 today)
Cobb (left) and Honus Wagner, his National League rival for greatest position player in the game, during the 1909 Detroit-Pittsburgh World Series
Charles M. Conlon's famed picture of Cobb stealing third base during the 1909 season