Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong Charles Leerhsen Author, Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty Ty Cobb was one of the greatest baseball players of all time and the king of the so-called Deadball Era. He played in the major leagues—mostly for the Detroit Tigers, but also for the Philadelphia Athletics—from 1905 to 1928, and was the first player ever voted into the Hall of Fame. His lifetime batting average of .366 is amazing and has never been equaled. But for all that, most Americans thin

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