1. Ty Cobb
... the U.S. Congress, having held seat in the Georgia State Senate. In 1883, at age twenty, he married 12-year-old Amanda Chitwood. Due to her young age, she did not bear a child until December 18, 1886, when Tyrus Raymond was born. W.H. was to father two more children with Amanda "John Paul in 1888 and Florence Leslie in 1892. Ty's mother ... the season. By the fall of 1959, Cobb had been diagnosed with cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, an enlarged prostate, and Bright's disease, a degenerative kidney disorder. He returned to his Lake Tahoe lodge with painkillers and bourbon to try t...
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