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Today in Sports History: October 9th
10/09/1910 - Cobb wins batting title On the final day of the 1910 MLB season, Ty Cobb had a slim lead over Napolean "Nap" Lajoie in the American League batting race. The Chalmers Automobile company had promised to give the batting champions of both the American League and National League a brand...
Today in Sports History: July 23rd
(The famous photo of Cobb. Photo courtesy of Charley Conlon, The Sporting News) 7/23/1910 - Cobb slides into third base It was on this day in 1910 that Charles M. Conlon snapped one of the most famous photographs in all of sports. Jimmy Austin of the New York Highlanders, later known as the New...
Let Us Now Praise the Triple
If you're like me, you're watching the College World Series, wishing the Diamond Dogs were in Omaha, and wondering who taught Matt Purke how to wear a baseball cap. Of course, Georgia's 2010 campaign was the worst baseball season in school history, so the Classic City Canines came nowhere near...
Today in Sports History: August 19th
8/19/1921 - Cobb reaches 3KTy Cobb gets a base hit off Red Sox pitcher Elmer Myers, giving him 3,000 for his career. Cobb, who was 34 at the time, would become the first player to also tally 4,000 hits and held the record for the most ever until Pete Rose broke it in 1985. Cobb, whose lifetime .367...
Today in Sports History: May 15th
(The Clippers moved to L.A. on this day in '84. Photo by Noah Graham, Getty Images) 5/15/1912 - Cobb beats up hecklerTy Cobb left the game of baseball as the most respected player in the sport. He retired with more hits, runs, stolen bases, and a higher batting average than anyone in history, and...
Today in Sports History: February 2nd
2/02/1936 - Cobb highlights first Hall of Famers Major League Baseball announces the first members of its Hall of Fame. The five players to receive the prestigious honor were home run slugger Babe Ruth, Pirates shortstop Honus Wagner, strikeout king Walter Johnson, screwball-thrower Christy...
Today in Sports History: May 18th
(Pippen and Davis. Photo by Bill Kostroun, AP Photos) 5/18/1912 - Substitute Tigers lose to A'sThe Detroit Tigers of the American League stage the first players strike in baseball history. They were protesting the indefinite suspension of Ty Cobb, who in a game three days earlier had beaten up a...
10 reasons to hate the...Detroit Tigers
1. They play in Detroit Comerica Park in one of the most underrated ballparks in the league, too bad it's in Detroit.2. Ty CobbTy Cobb might have been the best player ever to play the game of baseball. He has a career batting average of .367 (highest of all-time). There is no doubt Ty Cobb was an...
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