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Show HAS TY COBB MADE BASEBALL BETTER? Baso'Aall is over until after the war. When It Is resumed thcr Vrlll bo dozens of well-known faces missing from the diamond. A for. COBB nier Dig lcaguei ventured tho tl-mark tl-mark that, out' sldo bf Detroit, t h o re wouldn't bo a great deal of grief if Ty Cobb didn't return re-turn to the game. Cobb isn't liked by n great m a ny ballplayers. ballplay-ers. But regardles8 of whether they like Cobb or don't lileo him, I there Isn't a man 1 In tho American League today that doesn't owo something to Ty Cobb. J Cobb's advont .Into baseball marked a now era In the gamo. Cobb's baseball was new hase ball. Ho wa; continually pulling pull-ing Eomothlng to mako his opponents oppo-nents look like dubs and ,a greater part or the time he was getting away Willi it. ( The result was that players who had to play atralnst Cobb vero continually trying harder, playing bettor baseball, to stop Cobb. It raado hotter ballplayers of them. An Inflelder, pitcher or catcher who caught Cobb napping off a base got more satisfaction out of it than . ho did all the rest of his putouts of the game. The minute Cobb stepped to tho plate every man was on his toes |