- Born
- Died
- Birth nameTyrus Raymond Cobb
- Nickname
- The Georgia Peach
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Ty Cobb was born on December 18, 1886 in Narrows, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Somewhere in Georgia (1917), The Baseball Revue of 1917 (1917) and Ty Cobb and Grantland Rice Talk Things Over (1930). He was married to Frances Fairbairn Cass and Charlotte Lombard. He died on July 17, 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- SpousesFrances Fairbairn Cass(September 24, 1949 - 1956) (divorced)Charlotte Lombard(August 8, 1908 - June 19, 1947) (divorced, 5 children)
- In 1916 he was the first athlete to star in a commercial motion picture, Somewhere in Georgia.
- Was well known for his hot-headed temper on and off the baseball field.
- An authority on the Civil War.
- An early investor in Coca-Cola, he was worth over $12 million when he died.
- In 1906, Cobb had a nervous breakdown and entered a sanitarium.
- The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
- To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
- I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
- The crowd makes the ballgame.
- The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
- Somewhere in Georgia (1917) - $10,000
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