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<p>[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8190428, member: 20201"]<font size="6"><b>1964 Ty Cobb</b></font></p><p>Georgia Statehood Bronze Medal</p><p>Medallic Art Co.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433878[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1433879[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Tyrus Raymond Cobb Dec 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961</p><p>He was nicknamed The Georgia Peach, and was an American Major League Baseball outfielder.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433880[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia.</p><p>Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics.</p><p>In 1936 Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes. No other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992.</p><p>In 1999, editors at the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb third on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players".</p><p>Ty Cobb had a temper and was a fighter both on and off the field, even challenged umpire Billy Evans and arranged to settle their in-game differences through fisticuffs under the grandstand after the game. Members of both teams were spectators, and broke up the scuffle after Cobb had knocked Evans down, pinned him and began choking him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Batting average .367</p><p>Hits 4,191</p><p>Home runs 117</p><p>Runs batted in 1,938</p><p>Stolen bases 892</p><p><br /></p><p>On September 11, 1985, Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb's all-time hits record with his 4,192nd hit, a single to left-center field off San Diego Padres pitcher Eric Show.</p><p>Rose was a switch hitter and is the all-time MLB leader in hits 4,256.</p><p><br /></p><p>On August 8, 1905, Cobb's mother fatally shot his father with a pistol that his father had purchased for her.</p><p>Court records indicate that Mr. Cobb had suspected his wife of infidelity and was sneaking past his own bedroom window to catch her in the act. She saw the silhouette of what she presumed to be an intruder and, acting in self-defense, shot and killed her husband.</p><p>Mrs. Cobb was charged with murder and then released on a $7,000 recognizance bond.</p><p>She was acquitted on March 31, 1906.</p><p>Cobb later attributed his ferocious play to his late father, saying, "I did it for my father. He never got to see me play... but I knew he was watching me, and I never let him down."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8190428, member: 20201"][SIZE=6][B]1964 Ty Cobb[/B][/SIZE] Georgia Statehood Bronze Medal Medallic Art Co. [ATTACH=full]1433878[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1433879[/ATTACH] Tyrus Raymond Cobb Dec 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961 He was nicknamed The Georgia Peach, and was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. [ATTACH=full]1433880[/ATTACH] He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1936 Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes. No other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. In 1999, editors at the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb third on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players". Ty Cobb had a temper and was a fighter both on and off the field, even challenged umpire Billy Evans and arranged to settle their in-game differences through fisticuffs under the grandstand after the game. Members of both teams were spectators, and broke up the scuffle after Cobb had knocked Evans down, pinned him and began choking him. Batting average .367 Hits 4,191 Home runs 117 Runs batted in 1,938 Stolen bases 892 On September 11, 1985, Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb's all-time hits record with his 4,192nd hit, a single to left-center field off San Diego Padres pitcher Eric Show. Rose was a switch hitter and is the all-time MLB leader in hits 4,256. On August 8, 1905, Cobb's mother fatally shot his father with a pistol that his father had purchased for her. Court records indicate that Mr. Cobb had suspected his wife of infidelity and was sneaking past his own bedroom window to catch her in the act. She saw the silhouette of what she presumed to be an intruder and, acting in self-defense, shot and killed her husband. Mrs. Cobb was charged with murder and then released on a $7,000 recognizance bond. She was acquitted on March 31, 1906. Cobb later attributed his ferocious play to his late father, saying, "I did it for my father. He never got to see me play... but I knew he was watching me, and I never let him down."[/QUOTE]
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