Ty Cobb

Also known as Tyrus Raymond Cobb, Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb, The Georgia Peach, Tyrus Cobb

American baseball player (1886–1961)

Person · Open Library

Works: 8

Top works

Today's Bayou Kitchen
Busting 'em
Beat University
Pharaoh
Baseball, Inning 2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 624
Total plays: 5,586

Ty Cobb is now known as The Cobbs. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ty+Cobb">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests
· 2010 · cited 6,463x
Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress
· 1976 · cited 4,381x
Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?
· 2008 · cited 3,719x
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,589x
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 2,970x

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Quotes

“I feel that anything I could say in the way of eulogizing Hans would not be one-hundredth as much as he deserves, so I will just say my heart is with him tonight in wishing him three or four more score of pleasant years and that he will lead them all just as long as he wishes. I will be drinking a toast to the greatest ball player ever on his forty-first birthday, the night of February 24, away down here in Georgia.”
“Why not? Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man. In my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life.”
“Williams is one batter I thought would break my lifetime batting average of .367. If he'd learned to hit to left, Ted would have broken every record in the book.”
“I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.”
“I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.”
“A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.”

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Key facts

Batting average: .366
Hits: 4,189
Runs batted in: 1,944
Managerial record: 479–444
Winning: .519
Vote: 98.2% (first ballot)

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Sports profile

Sport: American Football
Team: _Retired American Football
Position: Running Back
Nationality: United States

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Wikidata facts

Mass: 79
Official website: www.cmgww.com/baseball/cobb
Image: 1913 Ty Cobb portrait photo.png
Height: 185

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Commons category: Ty Cobb
date of birth: 1886-12-18
date of death: 1961-07-17
Commons gallery: Ty Cobb
start of work period: 1905-08-30
birth name: Tyrus Raymond Cobb
nickname: The Georgia Peach
name in native language: Ty Cobb
end of work period: 1928-09-11

Sources (5)

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Article

Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American professional baseball center fielder. A native of rural Narrows, Georgia, Cobb played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent 22 years with the Detroit Tigers and served as the team's player-manager for the last six, and he finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1936, Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes (98.2%); no other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. In 1999, the Sporting News ranked Cobb third on its list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."

Cobb is credited with setting 90 MLB records throughout his career. Cobb has won more batting titles than any other player, with 12. During his 24-year career, he hit .300 in a record 23 consecutive seasons, with the exception being his rookie season. He also hit .400 in three different seasons, a record he shares with three other players. Cobb has more five-hit games (14) than any other player in major league history. He also holds the career record for stealing home (54 times) and for stealing second base, third base, and home in succession (4 times). His combined total of 4,065 runs scored and runs batted in (after adjusting for home runs) is still the highest ever produced by any major league player. Cobb also ranks first in games played by an outfielder in major league history (2,934). He retained many other records for almost a half century or more, including most career games played (3,035) and at bats (11,429 or 11,434 depending on source) until 1974 as well as the modern record for most career stolen bases (892) until 1977. He also had the most career hits until 1985 (4,189 or 4,191, depending on source) and most career runs until 2001. His .366 or .367 (depending on source) career batting average ranked as the highest-ever recorded up until 2024, when MLB decided to include Negro Leagues players in official statistics.