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Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July
17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach", was a Hall of Fame baseball player.
When he retired in 1928, he was the holder of ninety major league records.[1]
Cobb also received the most votes of any player on the 1936 inaugural Hall of
Fame Ballot.[2]
Cobb currently holds the records for highest
major-league career batting average with .366 [2]and most career batting titles
with 11[3]. Cobb also held for decades the record for most career major league
hits that was broken by Pete Rose (4,189, long believed to be 4,191)[4][5], and
the most career stolen bases with 892, later broken by Lou Brock and Rickey
Henderson[6]. Upon his death in 1961, the New York Times editorialized, "Let it
be said that Cobb was the greatest of all ballplayers."[7]
The greatest of stars during his playing prime,
Cobb's legacy as an athlete has sometimes been overshadowed by his surly
temperament and aggressive reputation[8], which was described by the Detroit
Free Press as "daring to the point of dementia."[9]
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Personal Info
Birth December 18, 1886, Narrows, Georgia
Death: July 17, 1961, Atlanta, Georgia
Professional Career
Debut August 30, 1905, Detroit Tigers vs. New York
Highlanders, Bennett Park
Team(s) As Player
Detroit Tigers (1905 - 1926)
Philadelphia A's (1927 - 1928)
As Manager
Detroit Tigers (1921 - 1926)
HOF induction: 1936
Career Highlights
All-Time Records
Career batting average (.367)
Career steals of home (54)
Career batting titles (11)
Notable Achievements
Batted over .320 for 22 straight seasons
Batted over .400 three times (1911, 1912 & 1922)
Won the Triple Crown in 1909
One of the inaugural members of the Hall of Fame
Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Tyrus "Ty" Cobb
"The Georgia Peach"
Inducted as a member of the Detroit Tigers (None)
Year Inducted: 1936
First Year Elligible: 1936
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Early
life & baseball career
Ty Cobb was born in Narrows, Georgia as the first
of three children to Amanda Chitwood Cobb and William Herschel Cobb.
Ty spent his first years in baseball as a member of
the Royston Rompers, the semi-pro Royston Red, and the Augusta Tourists of the
Sally League. However, the Tourists cut Cobb two days into the season. He then
went to try out for the Anniston Steelers of the semi-pro Tennessee-Alabama
League, with his father's stern admonition still ringing in his ears: "Don't
come home a failure." Cobb promoted himself by sending several postcards to
Grantland Rice, the sports editor of the Atlanta Journal under several different
aliases. Eventually, Rice wrote a small note in the Journal that a "young fellow
named Cobb seems to be showing an unusual lot of talent."[10] After about three
months, Ty returned to the Tourists. He finished the season hitting .237 in 35
games.
August 1905 was an eventful month for Ty. The
Tourists' management sold Cobb to the American League's Detroit Tigers for
$750.[11]. Additionally, On August 8 1905, Ty's father was shot to death by Ty's
mother. William Cobb suspected his wife of infidelity, and was sneaking past his
own bedroom window to catch her in the act; she only saw the silhouette of what
she presumed to be an intruder, and acted in self-defense.[12] Cobb's father
would never witness his son's major league success.
Major
League Career
The
early years
Three weeks after his mother killed his father,
Cobb played center field for the Detroit Tigers. On August 30 1905, in his first
major league at-bat, Cobb doubled off the New York Highlanders's Jack Chesbro.
That season, Cobb managed to bat only .240 in 41 games. Nevertheless, he showed
enough promise as a rookie for the Tigers to give him a lucrative $1,500
contract for 1906.
Although rookie hazing was customary, Cobb could
not endure it in good humor, and he soon became alienated from his teammates. He
later attributed his hostile temperament to this experience: "These old-timers
turned me into a snarling wildcat."[13]
The following year (1906) he became the Tigers'
full-time center fielder and hit .316 in 98 games. He would never hit below that
mark again. Cobb, firmly entrenched in center field, led the Tigers to three
consecutive American League Pennants from 1907-1909. Detroit would lose all
World Series, however, with Cobb's post-season numbers being much below his
career standard.
In one notable 1907 game, Cobb reached first, stole
second, stole third, and then stole home on consecutive attempts. He finished
that season with a league high .350 batting average, 212 hits, 49 steals and 119
RBI. Despite great success on the field, Cobb was no stranger to controversy off
it. At Spring Training in 1907, he fought a black groundskeeper over the
condition of the Tigers' field in Augusta, Georgia. Ty also ended up choking the
man's wife when she intervened.[14]
In September 1907, Cobb began a relationship with
The Coca-Cola Company that would last the remainder of his entire life. By the
time he died, he owned three bottling plants, in Santa Maria, California; Twin
Falls, Idaho; and Bend, Oregon; and owned over 20,000 shares of stock. He was
also a celebrity spokesman for the product; one Cobb endorsement claimed, "I
always find that a drink of Coca-Cola between the games refreshes me to such an
extent that I can start the second game feeling as if I had not been exercising
at all, in spite of my exertions in the first."[15]
The following season, the Tigers bested the Chicago
White Sox for the pennant. Cobb again won the batting title, although he hit
"only" .324 that year. Despite another loss in the Series, Cobb had something to
celebrate. In August 1908 he married Charlotte "Charlie" Marion Lombard, the
daughter of prominent Augustan Roswell Lombard.
The Tigers won the American League pennant again in
1909. During the Series Cobb stole home in the second game, igniting a three-run
rally, but that was the high point for Cobb. He ended batting a lowly .231 in
his last World Series, as the Tigers lost in seven games. Although he performed
poorly in the post-season, Cobb won the Triple Crown by hitting .377 with 107
RBI and nine home runs - all inside-the-park. Cobb thus became the only player
of the modern era to lead his league in home runs in a given season without
hitting a ball over the fence.
It was also in 1909 that Charles M. Conlon snapped
his famous photograph of a grimacing Ty Cobb sliding into third base amid a
cloud of dirt, which visually captured the grit and ferocity of Cobb's playing
style.
1910 &
the Chalmers Award controversy
In 1910, Cobb and Nap Lajoie were neck-and-neck for
the American League batting title. Cobb was ahead by a slight margin going into
the last day of the season. The prize for the winner of the title was a Chalmers
Automobile. Cobb sat out the game to preserve his average. Lajoie, whose team
was playing the St. Louis Browns, notched eight hits in a doubleheader. Six of
those hits were bunt singles that fell in front of the third baseman. It turned
out that Browns manager, Jack O'Connor, had ordered third baseman Red Corriden
to play deep, on the outfield grass, so as to allow the popular Lajoie to win
the title. A seventh hit is credited despite a wild throw to first base. The St.
Louis Press was one of numerous newspapers to criticize the shenanigans,
writing, "All St. Louis is up in arms over the deplorable spectacle, conceived
in stupidity and executed in jealousy."[16]
After some wrangling, AL president Ban Johnson
declared all batting averages official, with Cobb seemingly hanging on to win,
.3850687 to .3840947. The Chalmers people, however, decided to award an
automobile to both Cobb and Lajoie. The next year, the Chalmers Award was given
to the player "most valuable" to his team, and the modern Most Valuable Player
Award was born, with Cobb winning the American League version unanimously.
Muddying the waters further, it is the 1910 season
which accounts for the statistical discrepancy in Cobb's career hit total, which
was long reported as 4,191. A Detroit Tigers box score was mistakenly counted
twice in the season-ending calculations, thus giving Cobb an extra 2-for-3.
Beyond awarding him two nonexistent hits, it also raised Cobb's 1910 batting
average from .383 to .385. Lajoie is credited with a .384 average for the 1910
season, and thus the downwardly revised figure would also cost Cobb one of his
12 batting titles. The commissioner's committee voted unanimously to leave the
numbers unchanged, but this ruling has typically been ignored by the game's
statisticians.
With the Browns deliberately helping an opponent to
surpass a total which was unknowingly inaccurate, the ensuing mathematical mess
was described by one writer, "It could be said that 1910 produced two bogus
leading batting averages, and one questionable champion." [17]
The
1911 Season & Onward
Cobb was regarded not just as an athlete, but a
psychological competitor. Cobb was having an typically fine year in 1911, which
included a 40-game hitting streak. Still, ”Shoeless” Joe Jackson had a .009
point lead on him in batting average. What happened next is discussed in Cobb's
autobiography. Near the end of the season, Cobb’s Tigers had a long series
against Jackson and the Cleveland Naps. Fellow Southerners, Cobb and Jackson
were personally friendly both on and off the field. Cobb used that friendliness
for his gain. However, Cobb suddenly ignored Jackson whenever Jackson said
anything to him. When Jackson persisted, Cobb snapped angrily at Jackson, making
him wonder what he could have done to enrage Cobb. As soon as the series was
over, Cobb unexpectedly greeted Jackson and wished him well. Cobb felt that it
was these mind games that caused Jackson to "fall off" to a final average of
.408, while Cobb himself finished with a .420 average.[18]
Cobb led the AL in numerous categories besides
batting average, including 248 hits, 147 runs scored, 127 RBI, 83 stolen bases,
47 doubles, 24 triples, and a .621 slugging average. The only major offensive
category in which Cobb did not finish first was home runs, where Frank Baker
surpassed him 11-8. Cobb's dominance at the plate is suggested by this
statistic: he struck out swinging only twice during the entire 1911 season. He
was awarded another Chalmers, this time for being voted the AL MVP by the
Baseball Writers Association of America.
The game that may best illustrate Cobb's unique
combination of skills and attributes occurred on May 12, 1911. Playing against
the New York Yankees, Cobb scored a run from first base on a single to right
field, then scored another run from second base on a wild pitch. In the 7th
inning, he tied the game with a 2-run double. The Yankee catcher began
vociferously arguing the call with the umpire, going on at such length that the
other Yankee infielders gathered nearby to watch. Realizing that no one on the
Yankees had called time, Cobb strolled unobserved to third base, and then
casually walked towards home plate as if to get a better view of the argument.
He then suddenly slid into home plate for the game's winning run.[19]
On May 15 1912, Cobb assaulted Claude Lueker, a
heckler, in the stands in New York. Lueker and Cobb traded insults with each
other throughout the first three innings, and the situation climaxed when Lueker
called Cobb a "half-nigger." Cobb then climbed into the stands and attacked the
handicapped Lueker, who due to an industrial accident had lost all of one hand
and three fingers on his other hand. When onlookers shouted at Cobb to stop
because the man had no hands, Cobb reportedly replied, "I don't care if he has
no feet!" The league suspended him, and his teammates, though not fond of Cobb,
went on strike to protest the suspension prior to the May 18 game in
Philadelphia. For that one game, Detroit fielded a replacement team made up of
college and sandlot ballplayers, plus two Detroit coaches, and lost, 24-2. Some
of major league baseball's all-time negative records were established in this
game, notably the 26 hits allowed by Allan Travers, who pitched the sport's most
unlikely complete game. The strike ended when Cobb urged his teammates to return
to the field.[20]
During Cobb's career he was involved in numerous
fights, both on and off the field, and several profanity-laced shouting matches.
For example, Cobb and umpire Billy Evans arranged to settle their in-game
differences with a fistfight, to be conducted under the grandstand after the
game. Members of both teams served as the spectators, and broke up the scuffle
after Cobb had knocked Evans down, pinned him, and began choking him. Cobb once
slapped a black elevator operator for being "uppity." When a black night
watchman intervened, Cobb pulled out a knife and stabbed him. (The matter was
later settled out of court.)[21]
1915-1921
In 1915, Cobb set the single season steals record
when he stole 96 bases. That record stood until Maury Wills broke it in 1962.
Cobb’s streak of five batting titles (believed at the time to be nine straight)
ended the following year when he finished second with .371 to Tris Speaker’s
.386.
In 1917, Cobb hit in 35 consecutive games; he
remains the only player with two 35-game hitting streaks to his credit (Cobb had
a 40-game hitting streak in 1911). Over his career, Cobb had six hitting streaks
of at least 20 games, second only to Pete Rose's seven.
Also in 1917, Cobb starred in the motion picture
"Somewhere in Georgia". Based on a story by sports columnist Grantland Rice, the
film casts Cobb as "himself", a small-town Georgian bank clerk with a talent for
baseball.
By 1920, Babe Ruth had established himself as a
power hitter, something Cobb was not considered. When Cobb and the Tigers showed
up in New York to play the Yankees for the first time that season, writers
billed it as a showdown between two stars of competing styles of play. Ruth hit
two homers and a triple during the series while Cobb got only one single in the
entire series.
As Ruth's popularity grew, Cobb became increasingly
hostile toward him. Cobb saw Ruth not only as a threat to his style of play, but
also to his style of life. While Cobb preached ascetic self-denial, Ruth gorged
on hot dogs, beer, and women. Perhaps what angered him the most about Ruth was
that despite Ruth's total disregard for his physical condition and traditional
baseball, he was still an overwhelming success and brought fans to the ballparks
in record numbers to see him set his own records.
After enduring several years of seeing his fame and
notoriety usurped by Ruth, Cobb decided that he was going to show that swinging
for the fences was no challenge for a top hitter. On May 5 1925, Cobb began a
two-game hitting spree better than any even Ruth had unleashed. He was sitting
in the dugout talking to a reporter and told him that, for the first time in his
career, he was going to swing for the fences. That day, Cobb went 6 for 6, with
two singles, a double, and three home runs. His 16 total bases set a new AL
record. The next day he had three more hits, two of which were home runs. His
single his first time up gave him 9 consecutive hits over three games. His five
homers in two games tied the record set by Cap Anson of the old Chicago NL team
in 1884. Cobb wanted to show that he could hit home runs when he wanted, but
simply chose not to do so. At the end of the series, 38-year-old Cobb had gone
12 for 19 with 29 total bases, and then went happily back to bunting and
hitting-and-running. For his part, Ruth's attitude was that "I could have had a
lifetime .600 average, but I would have had to hit them singles. The people were
paying to see me hit home runs."
On August 19 1921, in the second game of a double
header against Elmer Myers of the Boston Red Sox Cobb collected his 3,000th hit.
Cobb
as player/manager
Frank Navin, the Detroit Tigers owner, signed Cobb
to take over for Hughie Jennings as manager for the 1921 season. Cobb signed the
deal on his 34th birthday for $32,500. To say the least, the signing caught the
baseball world off-guard. Universally disliked (even by the members of his own
team) but a legendary player, Cobb's management style left a lot to be desired.
He expected as much from his players as he gave, and most of the men did not
meet his standard.
The closest he came to winning the pennant race was
in 1924, when the Tigers finished in third place, six games behind the
pennant-winning Washington Senators. The Tigers had finished second in 1922, but
were 16 games behind the Yankees.
Cobb blamed his lackluster managerial record (479
wins-444 losses) on Navin, who was arguably an even bigger skinflint than Cobb.
Navin passed up a number of quality players that Cobb wanted to add to the team.
In fact, Navin had saved money by hiring Cobb to manage the team.
Also in 1922, Cobb tied a batting record set by Wee
Willie Keeler, with four five-hit games. This has since been matched by Stan
Musial, Tony Gwynn and Ichiro Suzuki.
At the end of 1925 Cobb was once again embroiled in
a batting title race, this time with one of his teammates and players, Harry
Heilmann. In a doubleheader against the St. Louis Browns on October 4, Heilmann
got six hits, leading the Tigers to a sweep of the doubleheader and beating Cobb
for the batting crown, .393 to .389. Cobb and Browns manager George Sisler each
pitched in the final game. Cobb pitched a perfect inning.
Cobb
moves to Philadelphia
Cobb finally called it quits from a 22-year career
as a Tiger in November 1926. He announced his retirement and headed home to
Augusta, Georgia. Shortly thereafter, Tris Speaker also retired as
player-manager of the Cleveland team. The retirement of two great players at the
same time sparked some interest, and it turned out that the two were coerced
into retirement because of allegations of game-fixing brought about by Dutch
Leonard, a former pitcher of Cobb's.
Leonard was unable to convince either Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis or the public that the two had done anything for which they
deserved to be kicked out of baseball.
Landis allowed both Cobb and Speaker to return to
their original teams, but each team let them know that they were free agents and
could sign with whomever they wished. Speaker signed with the Washington
Senators for 1927; Cobb signed with the Philadelphia Athletics. Speaker then
joined Cobb in Philadelphia for the 1928 season. Cobb says he came back only to
seek vindication and so that he could say he left baseball on his own terms.
Cobb played regularly in 1927 for a young and
talented team that finished second to one of the greatest teams of all time, the
1927 Yankees, which won 110 games. He returned to Detroit to quite a welcome on
May 11 1927. Cobb doubled in his first at bat, to the cheers of Tiger fans. On
July 18 1927, Cobb became the first player to enter the 4000 hit club when he
doubled off former teammate Sam Gibson of the Detroit Tigers at Navin Field.
1927 was also the final season of Washington
Senators pitcher Walter Johnson's career. With their careers largely
overlapping, Ty Cobb faced Johnson more times than any other batter-pitcher
matchup in baseball history. Cobb also got the first hit allowed in Johnson's
career. After Johnson hit Detroit's Ossie Vitt with a pitch in August 1915,
seriously injuring him, Cobb realized that Johnson was fearful of hitting
opponents. He used this knowledge to his advantage, by standing closer to the
plate.
Cobb returned again in 1928, for no real reason
other than he had nothing else to do with his life. He played less frequently
due to his age and the blossoming abilities of the young A's, who were again in
a pennant race with the Yankees. It was against those Yankees in September that
Cobb had his last at bat, a weak pop-up behind third base. He then announced his
retirement, effective at the end of the season. Ironically, had he stuck with
the A's in some capacity for one more year, he might have finally got his
elusive World Series ring. But it was not to be. Cobb ended his career with 23
consecutive seasons batting .300 or better (the only season under .300 being his
rookie season), a Major League record not likely to be broken.
Post
professional career
On account of his Coca-Cola deal, Cobb retired a
very rich and successful man. He spent his retirement pursuing his off-season
activities of hunting, golfing and fishing, full-time. He also traveled
extensively, both with and without his family. His other pastime was trading
stocks and bonds, increasing his immense personal wealth.
In the winter of 1930, Cobb moved into a Spanish
ranch estate on Spencer Lane in the millionaire's community of Atherton outside
San Francisco. At that same time, his wife Charlie filed the first of several
divorce suits. Charlie finally divorced Cobb in 1947, after 39 years of
marriage, the last few of which she lived in nearby Menlo Park.
Cobb had never had an easy time being a father and
husband. His children had found him to be demanding, yet also capable of
kindness and extreme warmth. "He always wanted us to work as hard as we could at
anything we did," Cobb's son James told sportswriter Ira Berkow in 1969. "Just
as he did."[citation needed] Cobb had expected his boys to be exceptional
athletes, especially baseball players. Ty, Jr. flunked out of Princeton and
would have rather played tennis than baseball, and in general was a
disappointment to his father.[verification needed]
A personal achievement came in February 1936, when
the first Hall of Fame election results were announced. Cobb had been named on
222 of 226 ballots, outdistancing Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and
Walter Johnson, the only others to earn the necessary 75% of votes to be elected
in that first year. His 98.2 percentage stood as the record until Tom Seaver
received 98.8% of the vote in 1992 (Nolan Ryan also surpassed Cobb, being named
on 98.79% of the ballots in 1999). Those incredible results show that although
many people disliked him personally, they respected the way he played and what
he accomplished. In 1998, The Sporting News ranked him as third on the list of
100 Greatest Baseball Players.
By then, Cobb drank and smoked heavily, and spent a
great deal of time complaining about the collapse of baseball since the arrival
of Ruth. Cobb was known to help out young players. He was instrumental in
helping Joe DiMaggio negotiate his rookie contract with the New York Yankees,
but ended his friendship with Ted Williams when the latter suggested to him that
Rogers Hornsby was a greater hitter than Cobb.
Another bittersweet moment in Cobb's life
reportedly came in the late 1940s when he and sportswriter Grantland Rice were
returning from the Masters golf tournament. Stopping at a South Carolina liquor
store, Cobb noticed that the man behind the counter was "Shoeless" Joe Jackson,
who had been banned from baseball almost 30 years earlier following the Black
Sox scandal. But Jackson did not appear to recognize him, and finally Cobb
asked, "Don't you know me, Joe?" “Sure I know you, Ty,” replied Jackson, “but I
wasn’t sure you wanted to speak to me. A lot of them don’t.”[22]
Later
life
At 62, Cobb remarried. The bride was 40-year-old
Frances Cass. This marriage also failed, and she later filed for divorce. She
felt that he was simply too difficult to get along with when he was drunk.
However, Cobb counter filed and won the suit.
When two of his three sons died young, Cobb was
alone, with few friends left. He therefore began to be generous with his wealth,
donating $100,000 in his parents' name for his hometown of Royston to build a
modern 24 bed hospital now called the Cobb Memorial Hospital. He also
established the Cobb Educational Fund, which awarded scholarships to needy
Georgia students bound for college, by endowing it with a $100,000 donation in
1953.
Cobb knew that another way he could share his
wealth was by having biographies written that would set the record straight and
teach young players how to play. John McCallum spent some time with Cobb to
write a combination how-to and biography. He, like everyone else, found Cobb
difficult at best, and impossible at worst. McCallum's book came out in 1956 and
was filled with half-truths and misinformation that McCallum had never checked
out.[citation needed]
After McCallum left, Cobb was again alone and had a
longing to return to Georgia. It was on a hunting trip near his Lake Tahoe home
that Cobb's long-range plans were going to be cut short, as he collapsed in pain
and was diagnosed with prostate cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and
Bright's disease, a degenerative kidney disorder. He returned to his Lake Tahoe
lodge with painkillers and bourbon to try to ease his constant pain. He did not
trust his initial diagnosis, however, so he went to Georgia to seek advice from
doctors he knew, and they found his prostate to be cancerous. They removed it at
Emory Hospital, but that did little to help Cobb. From this point until the end
of his life, Cobb criss-crossed the country, going from his lodge in Tahoe to
the hospital in Georgia.
It was also during his final years that Cobb began
work on his autobiography, My Life in Baseball: The True Record, with writer Al
Stump. Their collaboration was contentious, and after Cobb's death, was
described by Stump in other works, including the film Cobb.
Death
In his last days Cobb spent some time with the old
movie comedian Joe E. Brown, talking about the choices Cobb had made in his
life. He told Brown that he felt that he had made mistakes, and that he would do
things differently if he could. He had played hard and lived hard all his life,
and had no friends to show for it at the end, and he regretted it. Publicly,
however, Cobb claimed not to have any regrets: "I've been lucky. I have no right
to be regretful of what I did" (Newsweek, July 31, 1961, 54).
He checked into Emory Hospital for the last time in
June 1961, bringing with him a paper bag with a million or so dollars in
securities and his Luger pistol. This time his first wife, Charlie, his son
Jimmy and other family members came to be with him for his final days. He died a
month later, on July 17, 1961.
Cobb's funeral was perhaps the saddest event
associated with Cobb. From all of baseball, the sport that he had dominated for
over 20 years, baseball's only representatives in his funeral were three old
players, Ray Schalk, Mickey Cochrane, and Nap Rucker, along with Sid Keener from
the Hall of Fame.[23] Also there were his first wife, Charlie, his two
daughters, his surviving son, Jimmy, his two sons-in-law, his daughter-in-law,
Mary Dunn Cobb, and her two children. The relatively sparse attendance was in
great contrast to the hundreds of thousands of mourners who had turned out at
Yankee Stadium and St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York to bid farewell to Cobb's
great rival, Babe Ruth, in 1948.
In his will, Cobb left a quarter of his estate to
the Cobb Educational Fund, and the rest of his reputed $11 million he
distributed among his children and grandchildren. Cobb is interred in the
Royston, Georgia town cemetery. As of 2005 the Ty Cobb Educational Foundation
has distributed nearly $11 million in scholarships to needy Georgians.[24]
Legacy
Efforts to create a Ty Cobb Memorial in Royston
initially failed, primarily because most of the artifacts from his life were in
Cooperstown, and the Georgia town was viewed as too remote to make a memorial
worthwhile. However, on July 17 1998, on the 37th anniversary of his death, the
Ty Cobb Museum opened its doors in Royston. The time had become right to honor
the man in his own hometown. On August 30 2005, his hometown hosted a 1905
baseball game to commemorate 100 years since Ty Cobb played his first game.
Players in the game included many of Ty's descendants as well as many citizens
from his hometown of Royston, Georgia. Another early-1900s baseball game was
played in his hometown at Cobb Field on September 30, 2006. Players in this game
also included Ty's descendants as well as citizens from Royston. Ty's personal
bat boy from his major league years was there to throw out the first pitch and
witness the game.
Regular season stats
G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG TB SH
HBP
3,035 11,434 2,246 4,189 724 295 117 1,937 892 178
1,249 357 .366 .433 .512 5,854 295 94
****
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Ty Cobb at the Internet Movie Database
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