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I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which he changed baseball — from a game of science to an extension of his powerful slugging — but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew. No one ever loved life more. No one ever inspired more youngsters. I have reverence for his marvelous ability . I look forward to meeting him again some day.

— Ty Cobb My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

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Source: On Babe Ruth, in Ch. 16 : The Babe and I, p. 222
Work: My Life In Baseball : The True Record, 1961
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