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Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1936 Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes. In 1999, editors at The Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb 3rd on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players".〔http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/lisn100.shtml〕 Cobb is widely credited with setting 90 MLB records during his career. He still holds several records as of the end of the 2014 season, including the highest career batting average (.366 or .367, depending on source) and most career batting titles with 11 (or 12, depending on source).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Most Times Leading League )〕 He retained many other records for almost a half century or more, including most career hits until 1985 (4,189 or 4,191, depending on source),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Career Leaders for Hits (Progressive) )〕 most career runs (2,245 or 2,246 depending on source) until 2001,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Career Leaders for Runs (Progressive) )〕 most career games played (3,035) and at bats (11,429 or 11,434 depending on source) until 1974,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Career Leaders for Games (Progressive) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Career Leaders for At Bats (Progressive) )〕 and the modern record for most career stolen bases (892) until 1977.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Career Leaders for Stolen Bases )〕 He still holds the career record for stealing home (54 times) and for stealing second base, third base, and home in succession (5 times), and as the youngest player ever to compile 4,000 hits and score 2,000 runs. Cobb ranks fifth all-time in number of games played and committed 271 errors, the most by any American League (AL) outfielder. Cobb's legacy as an athlete has sometimes been overshadowed by his surly temperament and aggressive playing style,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Page 2 mailbag – Readers: Dirtiest pro players )〕 which was described by the ''Detroit Free Press'' as "daring to the point of dementia." Cobb himself wrote shortly before his death, "In legend I am a sadistic, slashing, swashbuckling despot who waged war in the guise of sport." Cobb was notorious for sliding into bases feet first, with his spikes high.〔(Photo of Cobb sliding with spikes )〕 Cobb's legacy, which includes a large college scholarship fund for Georgia residents financed by his early investments in Coca-Cola and General Motors, has been tarnished by allegations of racism and violence, largely stemming from a couple of biographies that were released following his death. Cobb's reputation as an extremely violent man was fanned by his first biographer, sportswriter Al Stump whose stories about Cobb have been discredited as sensationalized and, in some part, proven to be entirely fictional. while Cobb's views on race evolved and mellowed after his retirement from baseball.〔 ==Early life== Cobb was born in 1886 in Narrows, Georgia, a small rural community of farmers that was not an official city or village at the time. He was the first of three children born to William Herschel Cobb (1863–1905) and Amanda Chitwood Cobb (1871–1936). When he was still an infant, his parents moved to nearby Royston, where he was raised.〔H.G. Salsinger. "Ty Cobb Not Extraordinary Ballplayer as Boy." Bridgeport (CT) Telegram, November 5, 1924, p. 18.〕 By most accounts, he became fascinated with baseball as a child, and decided he wanted to play professional ball one day; his father was vehemently opposed to this idea, but by his teen years, he was trying out for area teams.〔(John Paul Hill. "Ty Cobb." New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2002 edition )〕 He played his first years in organized baseball for the Royston Rompers, the semi-pro Royston Reds, and the Augusta Tourists of the South Atlantic League who released him after only two days.〔Stump (1994), page 57〕 He then tried out for the Anniston Steelers of the semipro Tennessee-Alabama League, with his father's stern admonition ringing in his ears: "Don't come home a failure!"〔Stump (1994), p. 63〕 After joining the Steelers for a monthly salary of $50,〔Stump (1994), p. 64〕 Cobb promoted himself by sending several postcards written about his talents under different aliases to Grantland Rice, the sports editor of the ''Atlanta Journal''. Eventually, Rice wrote a small note in the ''Journal'' that a "young fellow named Cobb seems to be showing an unusual lot of talent."〔Cobb & Stump, page 48〕 After about three months, Cobb returned to the Tourists and finished the season hitting .237 in 35 games.〔Stump (1994), p. 69〕 In August 1905, the management of the Tourists sold Cobb to the American League's Detroit Tigers for $750 (equivalent to approximately $ in today's funds).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ty Cobb )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ty Cobb Career Statistics )〕 On August 8, 1905, Cobb's mother fatally shot his father with a pistol that his father had purchased for her. Court records indicate that Mr. Cobb had suspected his wife of infidelity〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ty Cobb: Death In The Dark )〕 and was sneaking past his own bedroom window to catch her in the act. She saw the silhouette of what she presumed to be an intruder and, acting in self-defense, shot and killed her husband. Mrs. Cobb was charged with murder and then released on a $7,000 recognizance bond. She was acquitted on March 31, 1906. Cobb later attributed his ferocious play to his late father, saying, "I did it for my father. He never got to see me play... but I knew he was watching me, and I never let him down."〔Stump (1994), p. 27〕 In 1911, Cobb moved to Detroit's architecturally significant and now historically protected Woodbridge neighborhood, from which he would walk with his dogs to the ballpark prior to games. The Victorian duplex in which Cobb lived still stands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ty Cobb as Detroit )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ty Cobb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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