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  1.                                  of American League
  2.                                  pennant-winning teams
  3.                                  from 1907-09. From
  4.                                  1921 to 1926, he was the
  5.                                  player-manager of the
  6. Detroit Tigers. His team never won a pennant,
  7. but it finished in second place once and third
  8. place twice. 
  9.  
  10. Ty spent the last two seasons of his career 
  11. as a player with the Philadelphia AΓÇÖs. In 1927,
  12. he batted .357. In 1928, at the age of 41, he 
  13. batted .323!
  14.  
  15. Even though he was probably the least-liked 
  16. man in baseball, Ty got the most votes when 
  17. the National Baseball Hall of Fame chose 
  18. its first five ballplayers, in 1936. He 
  19.  
  20.