Ty Cobb called Baseball a "red-blooded game for red-blooded men," warning that "molly coddles had better stay out." By this, Cobb meant that Baseball was the ultimate expression of the masculine ideal - a game of aggression, rivalry, physical and mental dexterity, self-reliance, and primal honor.
For over twenty years, Cobb expressed his fierce brand of Manhood in ballparks throughout the American Northeast, gaining for himself a level of celebrity that was unsurpassed in the early twentieth.
Ty Cobb called Baseball a "red-blooded game for red-blooded men," warning that "molly coddles had better stay out." By this, Cobb meant that Baseball was the ultimate expression of the masculine ideal - a game of aggression, rivalry, physical and mental dexterity, self-reliance, and primal honor
