Cobb, Ty(rus Raymond) (1886–1961)
US baseball player, one of the greatest batters and base runners of all time. He played for Detroit and Philadelphia between 1905 and 1928, and won the American League batting average championship 12 times. He still holds the record for lifetime batting average (.367), and is second on the all-time lists for runs and hits. The 4,191 hits in his career was a record that stood for almost 60 years. In 1936 he was the first person to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
