Ty Cobb Bat off Shldr

Tyrus Raymond Cobb (1886–1961), the "Georgia Peach," played center field and right field for the Detroit Tigers across twenty-two seasons and retired with a .366 career batting average that has not been touched since. A left-handed hitter who threw right, Cobb won twelve American League batting titles, including nine in a row from 1907 through 1915, and ran the bases with the kind of spike-up aggression that became as much a trademark as his swing. The T206 "Bat off Shoulder" pose is one of four Cobb cards in the foundational 1909–1911 White Border tobacco set, the most collected pre-war baseball issue and the source of the rare "Cobb Back" variation that appears on a small subset of his cards. Cobb died July 17, 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1936 as one of the original five, with the highest vote total of the inaugural class.