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| Title | Ty Cobb with boy, Seattle, ca. 1922 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | ca. 1922 |
| Caption | Ty Cobb, "The Georgia Peach, " was considered one of the greatest batters in baseball with a.367 career batting average. He had a long professional career playing for the Detroit Tigers from 1905 to 1926 and finished up his last two years with the Philadelphia Athletics from 1927 to 1928. Well-known for his fierce competitive attitude and quips, he maintained that he wasn't a super athlete but instead had an intense desire to win.
In this photograph from around the early 1920s, Ty Cobb is helping a youngster with a bat at a game in Seattle. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Cobb Ty.
Caption information sources: The Official Website of Ty Cobb; Dave Eskenazi. |
| Subjects | Baseball players--Michigan--Detroit; Sports--Washington (State)--Seattle; Children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Stadiums--Washington (State)--Seattle; Sports spectators--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961 |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5G.316 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 glass negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
