Ty Cobb

Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb
	Outfielder
	Born: December 18, 1886; Narrows, Georgia
	Died: July 17, 1961 (aged 74); Atlanta, Georgia
Batted: Left	Threw: Right
debut
	August 30, 1905, for the Detroit Tigers
Last appearance
	September 11, 1928, for the Philadelphia Athletics
Career statistics
Batting average	.367
Hits	4,191
Home runs	117
RBIs	1,938
Teams
	As player Detroit Tigers (1905–1926); Philadelphia Athletics (1927–1928); As manager Detroit Tigers (1921–1926);
Career highlights and awards
	1911 AL MVP; .367 career batting average (highest ever); 54 career steals of home (most all time); Won 12 batting titles, including 9 in a row from 1907 to 1915. (most all time); Third all time in stolen bases with 892.; Second in runs scored with 2,245.; Second in career hits with 4,191.; Batted under .320 only once in his career.; Batted over .400 three times.; Major League Baseball All-Century Team; Lead AL with a .350 average at age 20 (youngest in MLB history);
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Induction	1936
Vote	98.2%

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), also known as "The Georgia Peach," was a Major League Baseball player. He is known as the best player of the dead-ball era (before 1920) and as one of the best baseball players of all time.^[1]^[2]

Ty Cobb Media

Faded sign at Narrows, Georgia, celebrating it as the birthplace of Ty Cobb, "The Georgia Peach"
Cobb ends a 1908 holdout by signing a $5,000 contract (equivalent to $NaN today)
Cobb (left) and Honus Wagner, his National League rival for greatest position player in the game, during the 1909 Detroit-Pittsburgh World Series
Charles M. Conlon's famed picture of Cobb stealing third base during the 1909 season
Cobb and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, a top American League rival, in Cleveland (1913)
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Ty Cobb signed photograph, gifted to his teammate Tubby Spencer
Cobb slides into third base for a triple against the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium, August 16, 1924
Future Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig, Tris Speaker, Cobb, and Babe Ruth, 1928
Cobb's plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame

References

↑ Zacharias, Patricia, Ty Cobb, the greatest Tiger of them all, archived from the original on 2012-07-20, retrieved 2007-08-25
↑ Povich, Shirley, Best Player-Not Best Man, retrieved 2007-08-25

Other websites

Quotations related to Ty Cobb at Wikiquote Media related to Ty Cobb at Wikimedia Commons

Cobb on IMDb
Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
Official site Archived 2006-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
Ty Cobb Museum

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[1] Zacharias, Patricia, Ty Cobb, the greatest Tiger of them all, archived from the original on 2012-07-20, retrieved 2007-08-25

[2] Povich, Shirley, Best Player-Not Best Man, retrieved 2007-08-25

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