DATE: 2000 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original - Printed from the original negative in the time period in which it was shot TEAM: Detroit Tigers SUBJECT: Ty Cobb ISSUER: USPS APPROXIMATE SIZE: 4-1/4"x6" MARKS / STAMPING: Has standard postcard back but remains postally unused. NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Tyrus Raymond Cobb (The Georgia Peach) was born in Narrows, GA and died in 1961 in Atlanta, GA. He played major league baseball from 1905 to 1928 as outfielder for the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics, appeared in the 1907, 1908 and 1909 World Series, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. From 1921-26 Cobb also managed the Detroit Tiggers. Ty Cobb is regarded by historians and journalists as the best player of the dead-ball era and as one of the greatest players of all time. Cobb is widely credited with setting 90 Major League Baseball records during his career, several of which he still holds. Cobb's legacy as an athlete has sometimes been overshadowed by his surly temperament and aggressive playing style, which was described by the Detroit Free Press as "daring to the point of dementia." Cobb retired a very rich and successful man. He toured Europe with his family, went to Scotland for some time then returned to his farm in Georgia. He spent his retirement pursuing his off-season activities of hunting, golfing, polo and fishing. His other pastime was trading stocks and bonds, increasing his immense personal wealth. Among his other holdings, Cobb was a major stockholder in the Coca-Cola Corporation, which by itself would have made him a wealthy man. 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. 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. Cobb was mentioned in the poem "Lineup for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: C is for Cobb, Who grew spikes and not corn, And made all the basemen Wish they weren"t born. SKU: L14153
Item: L14153
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