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It’s the most romantic, glorified position in our most romantic, glorified sport. Even when baseball was played with mushy balls by men wearing baggy uniforms and pillbox hats, and you traveled to the ballpark by horse and buggy or traipsed there by foot, center field was the glamour position. Ty Cobb started it, pretty much. Cobb used his freakish speed and sheer determination to patrol center. And he slap base hits all over the field at a robust .370-plus clip every season. Then there was Tris Speaker. The Texan splashed onto the scene with the Boston Red Sox before being shipped mysteriously to the Cleveland Indians. The trade doesn’t get panned as badly as the sale of Babe Ruth, but was almost as bad for the BoSox. Center field’s standing as the Rolls Royce of basebal ...

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Article written by Greg Eno