If you love and appreciate baseball history, then you understand why it’s fun just to look at Ty Cobb’s season-by-season stats.
The man was a hit machine who lined, slashed, slapped and bunted his way to 4,189 hits (to go with 1,249 walks) over his 24-year career. He hit over .400 three times, and he won 11 battling titles. Cobb’s career average? An outrageous .366. Now there’s a record that may never be broken.
We bring up Cobb because of an eBay lot that sold for $23,000 in June. A seller offered a pair of well-preserved baseballs autographed by Cobb in 1960. Both were in their original Rawlings boxes, and both were clearly signed by Cobb at the same sitting.
The provenance? The balls were signed in 1960, as the seller wrote, “when my great-grandfather, a senior vice president at Coca-Cola, was on the
