Ty Cobb - Pre-professional career

Detroit Tigers (1905 – 1926) Philadelphia A's (1927 – 1928) As Manager Detroit Tigers (1921 – 1926) Highest lifetime major-league batting average (.367) Most career batting titles (12) Most career steals of home (54) Second in career hits (4,191 – first in AL and first when retired) Second in career runs scored (2,246 – first in AL and first when retired) Third in career steals (892 – first when retired) Led the American Leag ...

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Tyrus Raymond Cobb was born in Narrows, Georgia, the first of three children. His mother Amanda (Chitwood), who had married William Herschel Cobb when she was twelve, was fifteen when she gave birth to Ty. In 1893, W.H. Cobb, a teacher by profession, bought a one hundred acre (400,000 m²) farm in Royston, Georgia to supplement his teaching income. It was on this farm that Ty's father taught him the values of hard work and perseverance. It was also in those fields that Ty grew strong and developed his relationship with his father. When W.H. ...

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Ty Cobb - Minor leagues. In 1904, Cobb successfully tried out for the Augusta Tourists, a minor league club in the newly formed South Atlantic League, but was cut two days into the season. Cobb asked his father for permission to try out for a semi-pro team in Anniston, Georgia. In Cobb's account of the conversation he said that his father gave him permission to go, but warned him, "Don't come home a failure." Cobb tried out for the Anniston Steelers of the Tennessee-Alabama League. He easily made the team due to ...

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Cobb retired a very rich and successful, but very lonely 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 1930/31, 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 wi ...

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Ty Cobb, Ty Cobb - Pre-professional career, Ty Cobb - Professional career, Ty Cobb - Minor leagues, Ty Cobb - Major leagues, Ty Cobb - The Conlon photo, Ty Cobb - The 1911 Season, Ty Cobb - Post professional career, Ty Cobb - Records and achievements, Ty Cobb - Regular season stats, Ty Cobb - Miscellaneous

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