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The immortal Ty Cobb has been proclaimed by many as the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Some people argue that Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio and others were better than Cobb. But, when you are the standard by which others are measured, that should be a testament to how great a ballplayer Cobb was. Cobb had 4,191 career hits and the highest lifetime batting average in history with a .367 mark. He won a record 12 batting titles with the Detroit Tigers
and hit better than .400 three times in his career. He garnered 200 or more hits in a season nine times and won a Triple Crown in 1909. He also stole 892 bases in his career along with 1,937 runs batted in, 2,245 runs scored, and 724 doubles. Despite playing most of his 24-year career in the "deadball era," Cobb possessed an astounding .512 lifetime slugging percentage. At age 40, Cobb hit .357. At age 41, he hit .323 in his final year with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1928. He was the very first player inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1936. |
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