"I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends"- TY COBB, quoted in Voices from Cooperstown: Baseball's Hall of Famers Tell It Like It Was by Anthony J. Connor.

After checking in a month earlier at an Atlanta hospital, where he placed beside his bed a brown bag filled with $1 million in negotiable securities and a Luger, Ty Cobb dies at seventy-four after a long battle with cancer. Only three former players, Ray Schalk, Mickey Cochrane, Nap Rucker, and Baseball Hall of Fame director Sid Keener, attend the Georgia Peach's funeral services.