84 Facts About Ty Cobb

Ty Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics.

Ty Cobb is widely credited with setting 90 MLB records during his career.

Ty Cobb's combined total of 4,065 runs scored and runs batted in is still the highest ever produced by any major league player.

Ty Cobb retained many other records for almost a half century or more, including most career hits until 1985, most career runs until 2001, most career games played and at bats until 1974, and the modern record for most career stolen bases until 1977.

Ty Cobb still holds the career record for stealing home and for stealing second base, third base, and home in succession, and as the youngest player ever to compile 4,000 hits and score 2,000 runs.

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Ty Cobb was born in 1886 in Narrows, Georgia, a small, unincorporated rural community of farmers.

Ty Cobb was the first of three children born to William Herschel Cobb and Amanda Chitwood Cobb.

Court records indicate that Mr Ty Cobb had suspected his wife of infidelity and was sneaking past his own bedroom window to catch her in the act.

Ty Cobb saw the silhouette of what she presumed to be an intruder and, acting in self-defense, shot and killed her husband.

Mrs Ty Cobb was charged with murder and then released on a $7,000 recognizance bond.

In 1911, Ty Cobb moved to Detroit's architecturally significant and now historically protected Woodbridge neighborhood, from which he would walk with his dogs to the ballpark prior to games.

Ty Cobb was 18 years old at the time, the youngest player in the league by almost a year.

Ty Cobb is going to be a great baseball player and I won't allow him to be driven off this club.

Ty Cobb did not get another opportunity to play on a pennant-winning team.

In 1907, Ty Cobb reached first and then stole second, third and home.

Ty Cobb accomplished the feat four times during his career, still an MLB record as of 2022.

Ty Cobb had spent the previous year defending himself on several occasions from assaults by Schmidt, with Schmidt often coming out of nowhere to blindside Ty Cobb.

Ty Cobb then pushed him away, which was the last interaction that anyone saw between Ty Cobb and Cummings.

In September 1907, Ty Cobb began a relationship with The Coca-Cola Company that lasted the remainder of his life.

Ty Cobb sat out the final two games to preserve his average.

Ty Cobb declared Cobb the rightful owner of the title, but car company president Hugh Chalmers chose to award one to both Cobb and Lajoie.

Ty Cobb regarded baseball as "something like a war, " future Tiger second baseman Charlie Gehringer said.

Ty Cobb was having a tremendous year in 1911, which included a 40-game hitting streak.

Ty Cobb ignored Jackson when Jackson tried to say anything to him.

When Jackson persisted, Ty Cobb snapped angrily back at him, making him wonder what he could have done to enrage Ty Cobb.

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Ty Cobb hit eight home runs but finished second in that category to Frank Baker, who hit eleven.

Ty Cobb was awarded another Chalmers car, this time for being voted the AL MVP by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

On May 15,1912, Ty Cobb assaulted a heckler, Claude Lucker, in the stands in New York's Hilltop Park where the Tigers were playing the Highlanders.

Ty Cobb asked for the police to intervene, but they refused.

In 1909, Ty Cobb was arrested for assault for an incident that occurred in a Cleveland hotel.

In 1913, Ty Cobb signed a contract worth $12,000 for the six-month season, making him likely the first baseball player in history to be paid a five-figure salary.

In June 1914, Ty Cobb pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace after pulling a revolver during an argument at a Detroit butcher shop.

In 1915, Ty Cobb set the single-season record for stolen bases with 96, which stood until Dodger Maury Wills broke it in 1962.

Ty Cobb retaliated by spiking Herzog during the second game, prompting a bench-clearing brawl in which Ty Cobb ground Herzog's face in the dirt.

However, Ty Cobb later expressed the deepest respect for Herzog because of the way the infielder had conducted himself in the fight.

In 1917, Ty Cobb hit in 35 consecutive games, still the only player with two 35-game hitting streaks.

Ty Cobb had six hitting streaks of at least 20 games in his career, second only to Pete Rose's eight.

Also in 1917, Ty Cobb starred in the motion picture Somewhere in Georgia for a sum of $25,000 plus expenses.

In October 1918, Ty Cobb enlisted in the Chemical Corps branch of the United States Army and was sent to the Allied Expeditionary Forces headquarters in Chaumont, France.

Ty Cobb served approximately 67 days overseas before receiving an honorable discharge and returning to the United States.

Ty Cobb was given the rank of captain underneath the command of Major Branch Rickey, the president of the St Louis Cardinals.

Ty Cobb saw the Babe not only as a threat to his style of play, but to his style of life.

On May 5,1925, Ty Cobb told a reporter that, for the first time in his career, he was going to try to hit home runs, saying he wanted to show that he could hit home runs but simply chose not to.

Tigers owner Frank Navin tapped Ty Cobb to take over for Hughie Jennings as manager for the 1921 season, a deal he signed on his 34th birthday for $32,500.

Closest Ty Cobb came to winning another pennant was in 1924, when the Tigers finished in third place, six games behind the pennant-winning Washington Senators.

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Ty Cobb blamed his lackluster managerial record on Navin, who was arguably even more frugal than he was, passing up several quality players Ty Cobb wanted to add to the team.

In 1922, Ty Cobb tied a batting record set by Wee Willie Keeler, with four five-hit games in a season.

On May 10,1924, Ty Cobb was honored at ceremonies before a game in Washington, DC, by more than 100 dignitaries and legislators.

Ty Cobb received 21 books, one for each year in professional baseball.

Ty Cobb announced his retirement after a 22-year career as a Tiger in November 1926, and headed home to Augusta, Georgia.

Leonard accused former pitcher and outfielder Smoky Joe Wood and Ty Cobb of betting on a Tigers–Indians game played in Detroit on September 25,1919, in which they allegedly orchestrated a Tigers victory to win the bet.

Ty Cobb said he had come back only to seek vindication and say he left baseball on his own terms.

Ty Cobb returned for the 1928 season but 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.

Ty Cobb then announced his retirement, effective the end of the season, after batting.

When Ty Cobb retired, he led AL outfielders for most errors all-time with 271, which still stands today.

Ty Cobb toured Europe with his family, went to Scotland for some time and then returned to his farm in Georgia.

Ty Cobb spent his retirement pursuing his off-season avocations of hunting, golfing, polo and fishing.

Ty Cobb was a major stockholder in the Coca-Cola Corporation, which by itself would have made him wealthy.

Ty Cobb's children found him to be demanding, yet capable of kindness and extreme warmth.

Ty Cobb expected his sons to be exceptional athletes in general and baseball players in particular.

The elder Ty Cobb subsequently traveled to the Princeton campus and beat his son with a whip to ensure against future academic failure.

Ty Cobb helped his son deal with his pending legal problems, but then permanently broke off with him.

Ty Cobb was instrumental in helping Joe DiMaggio negotiate his rookie contract with the New York Yankees.

Ty 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.

Ty Cobb was mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash:.

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Ty Cobb 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.

Ty Cobb knew that another way he could share his wealth was by having biographies written that would both set the record straight on him and teach young players how to play.

Ty Cobb retained editorial control over the book and the published version presented him in a positive light.

Ty Cobb had played hard and lived hard all his life, had no friends to show for it at the end, and regretted it.

Ty Cobb was taken to Emory University Hospital for the last time in June 1961 after falling into a diabetic coma.

Ty Cobb's family kept the event private, not trusting the media to report accurately on it.

Ty Cobb's will left a quarter of his estate to the Cobb Educational Fund, and distributed the rest among his children and grandchildren.

Ty Cobb is interred in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Royston, Georgia.

Greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.

Ty Cobb's own sense of manhood, according to Tripp, was a product of his Southern upbringing that prized individualism, excitement, and family honor.

Ty Cobb has been judged by some historians and journalists as the best player of the dead-ball era, and is generally seen as one of the greatest players of all time.

Stump was later discredited when it became known that he had stolen items belonging to Ty Cobb and betrayed the access Ty Cobb gave him in his final months.

In 1977, a statue of Ty Cobb, designed by the sculptor Felix de Weldon, was installed outside the Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium.

In interviews with Al Stump, Ty Cobb told of studying Crawford's base-stealing technique and of how Crawford would teach him about pursuing fly balls and throwing out base runners.

Ty Cobb was allowed to show up late for spring training and was given private quarters on the road – perks not offered to Crawford.

Crawford recalled that, if he went three for four on a day when Ty Cobb went hitless, Ty Cobb would turn red and sometimes walk out of the park with the game still on.

In retirement, Ty Cobb wrote a letter to a writer for The Sporting News accusing Crawford of not helping in the outfield and of intentionally fouling off balls when Ty Cobb was stealing a base.

Crawford learned about the letter in 1946 and accused Ty Cobb of being a "cheapskate" who never helped his teammates.

Ty Cobb has the highest batting average in major league history,.