RetroSeasons recaps past sports seasons through stories, photos, videos, and stats from every team, league, and stadium in history. Coverage includes the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL, as well as vintage media from defunct teams and leagues.
The Ty Cobb era comes to an end after 22 years in Detroit when The Georgia Peach is sold to the Philadelphia Athletics. Cobb would go on to retire after only 2 season in Philadelphia. He would end his career with 4,191 hits a record that stood for almost 60 years. He would also end his career with a lifetime batting average of .367 that may never be topped. In Cobb's final season the Tigers would finish in 6th place with a record of 79-75.
Historian Eugene C. Murdock interviewed several former baseball players that had been active in baseball in the 1920s and 1930s. Murdock was chairman of the history department at Marietta College. The interviews were not professionally recorded, and the audio quality is variable.
The great Ty Cobb is interviewed by Leo Cloutier for WGIR Radio
in Manchester, on the...
Ty Cobb interviewed by Leo Cloutier in 1958 in Manchester NH / The great Ty Cobb is interviewed by Leo Cloutier for WGIR Radio
in Manchester, on the morning after the 1958 Baseball Dinner in which Ty Cobb was a guest of honor.