Ty Cobb - Baseball Hall of Fame Biographies

[@robertaxel]

My favorite Ty Cobb story was when he played in an old timers game years after he retired. He apologized to the catcher, asking him to step back as he did not have the same bat control and didn't want to hurt him. After the catcher stepped back a bit, Cobb promptly laid down a bunt and beat it out...

[@lloydkline1518]

W0w,

[@loydkline]

Ty Cobb baseball ⚾️ hitter 🎩 magician

[@baseballhall]

Hall of Famer Ty Cobb was born today in 1886. On May 5, 1925, Ty Cobb collected 16 total bases (three home runs, a double and two singles), setting a single-game American League record that has yet to be surpassed. Check out his Hall of Fame video bio.

[@roccomarchegiano5990]

This guy was amazing

[@lloydkline1518]

❤️ ty cobb, baseball hitting master

[@tycobb5452]

I got him 2nd on my list just after Ruth!

[@melodyanderson7295]

Ty Cobb Cool

[@lloydkline7245]

Ty Cobb his formly most major league records for the most hits seem invincible

[@bigbadwolf381]

Greatest Centerfielder Ever!

[@melodyanderson7295]

Big Bad Wolf indeed

[@spacedude1145]

What about Willie Mays?

[@richiebambara3980]

The GOAT 🐐

[@brandoncastro2441]

Thank you. Amazing.

[@robertungerbuehler9076]

The best, period!

[@catitude2033]

Unbelievable Playing Machine.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

He's a fighter 💪 that's for sure ...tell by the way he steps 🚶‍♂️ up to microphone 🎤

[@TerryTitus-w1s]

Ok,what year were the action shots from? I saw him in early to maybe around 1910 on video.

[@tomitstube]

where can i find more about ty cobb?

[@impittsburghpiratesfandont7867]

tomitstube “Ty Cobb” by Charles Leerhen

[@timetraveler-55]

He would be the best, If there was no Babe Ruth.

[@maxklein9914]

My brother said he wasn’t good he was amazing

[@wyssmaster]

Greatest of all time of alltime?

[@tycobb5452]

wyssmaster I got him 2nd to Ruth!

[@NicanTlacaWarrior1]

"I don't care if he ain't got no feet!" - Ty Cobb, on beating up heckler Claude Lueker, who had no hands as the result of an industrial accident.

[@TheBatugan77]

The dude shouldn't have run his mouth.

[@bobo44donemilking51]

everyone ran funny in the old days

[@Anthony-rt5oj]

Cobb>Ruth

[@TheBatugan77]

💩> that

[@Anthony-rt5oj]

@@TheBatugan77 you’re just a hater you probably believe all the myths about Cobb 😒 read ty Cobb a terrible beauty by Charles leerhsen

[@wvu05]

@@Anthony-rt5oj I've still gotta give Ruth the top slot. He hit a ton and was still ninth all time in batting and second all time in OBP (to Williams). Not to mention that he was one of the best southpaws in the American League for the five years that he pitched full time. No one comes close to his 183 WAR. (Walter Johnson is second with 164.) Cobb is great, but Ruth is just a little bit better.

[@rustyangler7868]

read the book "Cobb" by Al Stump. Greatest baseball book ever.

[@Anthony-rt5oj]

Worst book ever actually that’s the book that’s absolutely RIDDLED with myths If you want to be the greatest baseball book every Ty cobb a terrible beauty by Charles leerhsen

[@hadmiar8]

you just said that calling ty cobb as racist (which he was) makes the guy who called him a racist one.

[@troddy3925]

Not the racist people were led to believe, see Leershen's book Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty. His Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather were all abolitionists. Cobb was hazed terribly in his younger playing days, and after his Mother killed his Father he was probably fairly messed up psychologically. But he didn't hate Black people, he just didn't like people in general who crossed him, and because he was so good, other players hated him for it and helped to facilitate the trashing of not only his name, but the way he played the game. Read the book or watch Leershen's video on youtube, then pay if forward by spreading the word as I am. Cobb was no angel, but he wasn't a racist either, he was all for the integration of baseball.

[@wvu05]

@@troddy3925 Indeed. Cobb was a hard man, but he wasn't evil. I am still amazed to find out the truth behind the infamous picture of Cobb leaping toward the catcher.

[@goblin4231]

you probably dont want to, he was mean

[@TheIrishfitter]

goblin4231 idiot alert 🚨

[@halolegends86]

actually Ty Cobb was a mean man and he was not nice to ladies so he was a jork.

[@MrT5mustang]

Racism is defined by the time you live in. At the time of Cobb Whites looked down on Blacks because of ignorance and the lack of understanding simple common logic. We as humans can see that the time we live in defines our views. WW2 Germans and Japanese became fodder for race ignorance. Today it is any middle eastern looking person. Let Cobbs accomplishments on the field stand for what they are " great" . At least he did it without Drugs, cheeting and having to lie about how he played the game!

[@troddy3925]

Not the racist people were led to believe, see Leershen's book Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty. His Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather were all abolitionists. Cobb was hazed terribly in his younger playing days, and after his Mother killed his Father he was probably fairly messed up psychologically. But he didn't hate Black people, he just didn't like people in general who crossed him, and because he was so good, other players hated him for it and helped to facilitate the trashing of not only his name, but the way he played the game. Read the book or watch Leershen's video on youtube, then pay if forward by spreading the word as I am. Cobb was no angel, but he wasn't a racist either, he was all for the integration of baseball.

[@Highfalutinloyd]

In actuality, Cobb was extremely progressive when judged against his peers. Most of his "racist" incidents have been proven to actually have been fights against white men; his grandfather, whom he spent almost all of his childhood summers with, was an ardent abolitionist, and his father spent most of his time in the Georgia state senate trying to pass bills protecting the voting rights of black Georgians. Cobb himself was a proponent of the integration of professional baseball, had high praise for early black MLB players, and when, in the early 1900's, the Tigers "adopted" a homeless black teenager as their traveling, unofficial mascot, Cobb was one of the only players that didn't rub his bat on the kid's head for good luck, was apparently the most vocal player in making sure the kid had enough food to eat, and even let the kid sleep in his hotel room if proper accommodation couldn't be found (which would have been unheard of in the early 1900's). He eventually got the guy a job working as a driver for one of his friends to get him off the street. Ty Cobb was definitely a scrappers and could definitely be an asshole, but as far as race was concerned, he was probably much better than most of his peers.

[@wvu05]

In 1952, Cobb was interviewed and asked about integration in baseball. He wholeheartedly supported it, said that Willie Mays was the only player he'd pay to see, and Roy Campanella was the closest player to him in intensity. No other southerner of his era (or even immediately after, for that matter) had anything kind to say about integration.

[@hadmiar8]

do you know what racist means? it doesnt neccesirily just mean discrimination against blacks!

[@tomitstube]

i have since found much on cobb, several books. he was basically a racist southern sociopath. and a talented baseball player.

[@wvu05]

Check out _Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty._ A lot of the stories that make him out to be baseball's greatest villain (for me, that goes to Landis given that he strictly enforced the color line and proved to not be the squeaky clean arbiter that he was made out to be) are either false or greatly exaggerated. For example, the famous picture of Cobb leaping towards the catcher is not proof of his evil spiking ways at all. He was actually kicking the ball out of the glove of the catcher, which he corroborated completely. It happened in 1912.

[@tomitstube]

@@wvu05 i've seen a lecture by the author, he makes a compelling case cobb was smeared by al stump, something people did in those days, many papers like william randolph hearst's told wild stories to sell newspapers, babe ruth's "called shot" is one of those myths, created by a single sports writer, next thing you know everyone is saying they saw it. lou gehrig, and many others who said they saw it would later admit it didn't happen.

[@wvu05]

@@tomitstube I've heard audio of Lou Gehrig saying that it did happen. Now, he agree that Babe Ruth didn't say anything, but that event has always been a matter of interpretation, but he did point.

[@mrnaji]

of course he was a racist he was born in Georgia 20 years after the Civil War and his attitude was the norm for most who living at the time, I'm sure if he was born 100 years later things would've been much different in terms of the way he viewed things

[@troddy3925]

Not the racist people were led to believe, see Leershen's book Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty. His Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather were all abolitionists. Cobb was hazed terribly in his younger playing days, and after his Mother killed his Father he was probably fairly messed up psychologically. But he didn't hate Black people, he just didn't like people in general who crossed him, and because he was so good, other players hated him for it and helped to facilitate the trashing of not only his name, but the way he played the game. Read the book or watch Leershen's video on youtube, then pay if forward by spreading the word as I am. Cobb was no angel, but he wasn't a racist either, he was all for the integration of baseball.

[@impittsburghpiratesfandont7867]

Falconssoar “Ty Cobb” by Charles Leerhsen it’s a book this guy does his research