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Gators Drown Under The Tide In Atlanta, Alabama Wins SEC Championship !

December 5, 2009. Tampa, Fl. ROLL TIDE !!! Alabama beat the gators out with some great football. I am proud of the Team who did not start the season saying, "we are going the win the national championship" before the first game was even played...

Written by Wesley Fricks about about 15 hours ago 218 reads 6 comments
Who Do You Believe Was Really the Greatest: Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth?

Some say he revived the game of baseball. A game that surely needed resurrection in the early 1920's. The Black Sox scandal had just crashed the game beyond repair...

Written by Wesley Fricks about 5 months ago 87 reads 6 comments
Ty Cobb To Build New State-Of-The Art Medical Center For Northeast Georgia

Friday June 12th, 2009, Royston, Georgia - Ty Cobb, baseball's first Hall of Fame player, had another "dream" come true this week as the Ty Cobb Healthcare System, Inc. announced new plans to build a state-of-the-art medical center in Franklin County...

Written by Wesley Fricks about 5 months ago 131 reads 0 comments
Former Detroit Tigers Star Ty Cobb and His Long Journey Home To Georgia

“So long as suns are warm, baseballs thrown and hit; as long as grass grows green on the infields of diamonds in great cities and bush-league towns, and the bleachers stand to cheer and jeer, so long will they remember Tyrus Raymond Cobb

Written by Wesley Fricks about 5 months ago 48 reads 3 comments
The Ty Cobb Museum: A Museum Built with a Bat!

Sunday, June 7, 2009, Royston, Ga. - Ty Cobb’s legacy has been captured and preserved for future generations in one of the finest museums in the country...

Written by Wesley Fricks about 6 months ago 119 reads 1 comments
Little Leaguer: Pledging to Stand Against Cheating in Baseball and Life

June 3, 2009, St. Petersburg, Fl - Little Leaguers everywhere are listening to the voice of character, Dale Murphy. Murphy, the former Atlanta Braves' seven time all-star who retired in 1993, ...

Written by Wesley Fricks about 6 months ago 57 reads 1 comments
Ty Cobb's 1925 Hudson Has Survived Eight Decades, $25,000 For It Today

Ryan Duckett of West Palm Beach, Florida Now Owns Ty Cobb's Former Wheels. "A car of this nature, fully restored, could net as much as $75,000" _______________________________________________________________________ ...

Written by Wesley Fricks about about 1 year ago 802 reads 4 comments
Ty Cobb: Through the Eyes of an Atlanta Batboy, Part III

Featuring Georgia Native, Ty Cobb's Batboy, Jimmy F. Lanier "And that was the last time I saw Mr. Cobb alive...

Written by Wesley Fricks about about 1 year ago 445 reads 0 comments
The Georgia Peach, Baseball Great Ty Cobb Joins U.S. Army's Gas & Flame Division

Aug. 9, 2008 - Royston, Georgia Georgia's great baseball legend was commissioned by Washington to defend our country's freedom in France in 1918...

Written by Wesley Fricks about about 1 year ago 890 reads 5 comments
Ty Cobb: Through the Eyes of an Atlanta Batboy, Part II

Featuring Georgia Native, Ty Cobb's Batboy, Jimmy F. Lanier "You Teach a Boy to Throw a Baseball and he won't throw a rock" _______________________________________________________________________ Aug...

Written by Wesley Fricks about about 1 year ago 465 reads 3 comments
Ty Cobb: Through the Eyes of an Atlanta Batboy, Part I

Featuring Georgia Native, Ty Cobb's Batboy, Jimmy F. Lanier "This is the absolute pinnacle of my association with Ty Cobb." _______________________________________________________________________ Aug.

Written by Wesley Fricks about about 1 year ago 912 reads 2 comments
Ty Cobb's Final Inning

Aug. 3, 2008 A light rain, a somber crowd, and 200 little leaguers lined up on both sides of the highway to mark the end of a long and memorable journey for one of baseball’s great, Ty Cobb...

Written by Wesley Fricks about about 1 year ago 405 reads 2 comments
Ty Cobb Was Not A Racist

Tyrus Raymond Cobb was by far the greatest player in Major League Baseball's history, but very few write about his personal side—the side that has been buried beneath the weight of time...

Written by Wesley Fricks about about 1 year ago 3,283 reads 28 comments

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Wesley Fricks Article Archive

Gators Drown Under The Tide In Atlanta, Alabama Wins SEC Championship !

Who Do You Believe Was Really the Greatest: Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth?

Ty Cobb To Build New State-Of-The Art Medical Center For Northeast Georgia

Former Detroit Tigers Star Ty Cobb and His Long Journey Home To Georgia

The Ty Cobb Museum: A Museum Built with a Bat!

Little Leaguer: Pledging to Stand Against Cheating in Baseball and Life

Ty Cobb's 1925 Hudson Has Survived Eight Decades, $25,000 For It Today

Ty Cobb: Through the Eyes of an Atlanta Batboy, Part III

The Georgia Peach, Baseball Great Ty Cobb Joins U.S. Army's Gas & Flame Division

Ty Cobb: Through the Eyes of an Atlanta Batboy, Part II

Ty Cobb: Through the Eyes of an Atlanta Batboy, Part I

Ty Cobb's Final Inning

Ty Cobb Was Not A Racist

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