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Find out Ty Cobb's career stats, awards, and achievements as a centerfielder in Major League Baseball. See his batting average, home runs, RBIs, stolen bases, and more.
May 6, 2013 · Find comprehensive Ty Cobb baseball stats, including his career totals, batting averages, fielding stats, pitching stats and more. See his biographical data, awards, quotes and cards on this page.
—Ty Cobb in The New York Times Cobb led the AL that year in numerous other categories, including 248 hits, 147 runs scored, 127 RBI, 83 stolen bases, 47 doubles, 24 triples and a.621 slugging percentage. Cobb hit eight home runs but finished second in that category to Frank Baker, who hit eleven. He was awarded another Chalmers car, this time for being voted the AL MVP by the Baseball ...
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- He might have been the first “Tyrus.” Cobb’s father, W.H. Cobb, named him after Tyre, an ancient city in what is now modern-day Lebanon. According to U.S. Social Security Administration counts, the name “Tyrus” did not appear in the top 1,000 boy or girl names until 1912, the year after Cobb first hit over .400.
- His mother killed his father. On Aug. 8, 1905, W.H. Cobb announced to his wife, Amanda, that he was headed to the family farm and would not be back that night.
- He was (probably) not the monster he’s often depicted to be. If you believe all the stories that circulate about Cobb, he was a racist lunatic who sharpened his cleats to intentionally wound opposing players and even killed a man hours before a game.
- He hit .300 in 23 consecutive seasons. This streak is as safe as Cal Ripken Jr.’ s consecutive games played record in terms of its inability to be broken.
Find out Ty Cobb's career statistics, awards, news and videos on MLB.com. See his batting and pitching records, Hall of Fame induction, and league rankings in various categories.
Ty Cobb played 24 seasons for the Tigers and Athletics. He had a .366 batting average, 4,189 hits, 117 home runs, 1,933 RBIs and 2,244 runs scored. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1936.
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Ty Cobb was a center fielder who played for the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics from 1905 to 1928. He holds the record for the highest career batting average (.366) and won nine AL batting titles, among other achievements.
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