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Baseball fans expect Jackson's slugging prowess, while we expect Ty Cobb to excel at getting on base. One year when Joe Jackson led the leak in slugging percentage, though, he broke a five year streak of Cobb leading the league in that category also. Ty Cobb was a remarkable player.

Playing baseball for textile mills paid twice as much as working for the textile mills themselves.