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COBB – Elliot Goldenthal

October 31, 2024 Leave a comment

THROWBACK THIRTY

Growing up in the United Kingdom, baseball was never a sport that was ever on my radar, but even with my limited knowledge of its history there were still some names which transcended and were familiar as icons of the game: Babe Ruth. Lou Gehrig. Joe Di Maggio. One of the most controversial players of that era was another familiar name: Ty Cobb, who played for the Detroit Tigers between 1906 and 1926 and was one of the first people inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame when it was first established in 1936. By all accounts he was a mercurial player, with especially incredible batting ability, aggressiveness, and mental toughness; such was his prodigiousness he held the record for the highest career batting average for almost 100 years until 2024, when MLB decided to include players from the Negro League in official statistics, and he was overtaken by Josh Gibson. Read more…