Cobb (36 page)

Napoleon Lajoie, left, and Cobb pictured in the Chalmers automobile that was to go to the winner of the American League batting championship and which touched off the cheating episode in St. Louis.

No doubt the most famous, and oft-reproduced, baseball photo ever taken, but how could it be omitted in a biography of Ty Cobb? He is sliding into third against Jimmy Austin of the St. Louis Browns.

This is the play that touched off the near-riot in Philadelphia in 1909: Cobb, sliding into third, spikes Home Run Baker.

Cobb at bat in 1915. Note that the grip here is neither with hands spread apart nor choked up.

Christy Mathewson, left, and Cobb in U.S. Army uniform, 1918.

Portrait of the Georgia Peach in the early 1910s.

Cobb and youthful fans.

Cobb, son Herschel, golf champion Bobby Jones, and setter at Field Dog Trials, Waynesboro, Georgia.

Cobb at opening game of 1925 World Series, Pittsburgh.

End of the trail, with the Philadelphia Athletics.

Cobb and sportswriter O. B. Keeler at Waynesboro, Georgia, circa 1925.

The 1928 A's numbered three of the game's greatest hitters of the dead ball era, playing out their string in the age of Ruth, Foxx, Gehrig, and Hornsby. Left to right: Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker.

Honorary coaches Babe Ruth, left, and Ty Cobb at New York's Polo Grounds deciding which Youth all-star team bats first, August 27, 1945.