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Ty Cobb

Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.

Ty Cobb was born on December 18, 1886, in Narrows, Georgia. Cobb was 18 years old when he broke into the big leagues on August 30, 1905, with the Detroit Tigers. Tyrus the Georgia Peach was a Hall of Fame baseball player. When he retired in 1928, he was the holder of ninety major league records. Cobb also received the most votes of any player on the 1936 inaugural Hall of Fame Ballot.

Ty spent his first years in baseball, as a member of the Royston Rompers and the semi-pro Royston Reds. In 1904 Tyi approached his father about trying out for the Augusta Tourists of the Sally League. W.H. agreed to let Ty try out.

Ty Cobb may have been baseball's greatest player, if not the game's fiercest competitor. His batting accomplishments are legendary, a lifetime average of 0.367, 297 triples, 4,191 hits, 12 batting titles including nine in a row, 23 straight seasons in which he hit over 0.300, three 0.400 seasons topped by a 0.420 mark in 1911 and 2,245 runs. Intimidating the opposition, The Georgia Peach stole 892 bases during a 24-year career, primarily with the Detroit Tigers. Ty Cobb his award in 1911 American League Most Valuable Player and his post season of word series 1907, 1908, and 1909.

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