Ty Cobb (Person) AKA The Georgia Peach
Ty Cobb
1886 AD - 1961 AD
AKA The Georgia Peach
American Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder who is credited with setting 90 MLB records during his career.
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 (98.2%); no other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. In 1999, the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb third on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
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