Interesting facts about Ty Cobb
- Tyrus Raymond Cobb, nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was an American outfielder in baseball born in Narrows, Georgia.
- Ty Cobb played on three World Series teams, all with the Detroit Tigers.
- Ty Cobb has the highest lifetime batting average (.367) of all time.
- 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.
- Cobb is one of only two people to hit a home run before his 20th birthday and after his 40th birthday.
- In 1936, Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes.
- Ty Cobb is second on the all-time hit list behind Pete Rose.
- Ty Cobb was born in Narrows, Georgia, in 1886, the first of three children to Amanda Chitwood Cobb and William Herschel Cobb.
- In 1936, Ty Cobb became the first player ever selected to the Hall of Fame.
- Cobb's legacy as an athlete has sometimes been overshadowed by his surly temperament and aggressive playing style.
- Cobb won more batting average titles than any other person (12).
- On August 8, 1905, Ty's mother fatally shot his father. William Cobb suspected his wife of infidelity, and was sneaking past his own bedroom window to catch her in the act; she saw the silhouette of what she presumed to be an intruder, and, acting in self-defense, shot and killed her husband.
- Ty Cobb endorsed a chewing gum, a brand of suspenders and underwear.
- Cobb became the first ball player to star in a movie, a drama by Grantland Rice, "Somewhere in Georgia."
- Ty Cobb associated with financiers and industrialists, golfed with President William Howard Taft, and visited President Woodrow Wilson in the White House.
- Ty Cobb invested his money into real estate and securities, and owned an auto dealership. His best investment was in a Atlanta-based soft drink company, Coca-Cola.
