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In 1904, eighteen-year-old Tyrus Raymond Cobb lived in a boarding house on this site while playing minor league baseball for the Anniston Steelers. From nearby Scarbrough Drug Store on Noble Street, he wrote letters under fictitious names to sports writer Grantland Rice praising Cobb's abilities in Anniston. Those letters brought a scout from the Detroit Tiger organization to Anniston, leading to the discovery of Ty Cobb, who became the greatest baseball player of all time.
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Anniston, Alabama · United States
