![]() ![]() He still holds several records as of the end of the 2022 season, including the highest career batting average (.366) and most career batting titles with 11 (or 12, depending on source). ![]() His combined total of 4,065 runs scored and runs batted in (after adjusting for home runs) is still the highest ever produced by any major league player. In 1999, the Sporting News ranked Cobb third on its list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players." Ĭobb is widely credited with setting 90 MLB records during his career. In 1936, Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes (98.2%) no other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. 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. Tyrus Raymond Cobb (Decem – July 17, 1961), nicknamed " the Georgia Peach", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder. September 11, 1928, for the Philadelphia Athletics ![]()
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