On the outfield wall at Comerica Park in Detroit, Cobb was honored with his name placed on the outfield wall matching font and script of the player's numbers. Get a new mixed Fun Trivia quiz each day in your email. It's a fun way to start your day! Take any positive whole number not greater than If the number is even, divide it by two. If the number is odd, multiply it by 3, and add 1 to the result.
Apply the same method to the resulting number, and continue in this way forming a chain of numbers untill you finally arrive at the number 1. Shown below is a chain of numbers that results from this method if you begin with 15 - 46 - 23 - 70 - 35 - - 53 - - 80 - 40 - 20 - 10 - 5 - 16 - 8 - 4 - 2 - 1. For the first time in my life, I will be deliberately going for home runs.
In particular, he hated slugger Babe Ruth and how the Bambino had transformed the game. Cobb thought the deluge of home runs minimized the need for strategies he honed to perfection during the dead ball; skills like bunting, the hit-and-run, using the whole field, and the stolen base. So, as the legend goes, he took time in St. Louis to show that, if he had wanted to, he could hit a lot of homers, too.
Whether or not Cobb actually "called" his power outburst has been debated over the years but what actually happened at Sportsman's Park on those two days is a matter of record.
In the 2nd inning of the May 5 game against the Browns, Tyrus Raymond smashed a pitch from Bullet Joe Bush for a long home run to right field. Later in the game, he launched a ball over the pavilion in right and added another "over-the-fence" homer in the 8th. Along with the three long balls, Cobb hit a double and two singles, finishing the day 6 for 6. On May 6 , the man from Royston slammed two more home runs, making it five round-trippers in two games.
If the legend is true, Cobb apparently thought he had proven his point and went back to what he called "real" baseball and finished the campaign with a lusty. Cobb held an amazing number of regular season Major League Baseball records when he retired. The records include:. He hit. His career average of. The year was , the first year for the hall of fame in Cooperstown, N. That percentage remained the highest any player had received until when pitcher Tom Seaver got Cobb was the oldest son of a school teacher, W.
Cobb, and a year-old mom, Amanda Chitwood Cobb. He father wanted him to become a professional, but Cobb fell in love with baseball as a teenager. His father, a strict disciplinarian, finally agreed to let Cobb play when he got an offer from a semi-pro club in Anniston, Ala. However, just about a month before the Tigers called him up to the big league, his father died.
However, he suspected his wife of having an affair, and returned to the house with a pistol. An altercation ensured, and Amanda shot and killed her husband. Nicknames: The Georgia Peach. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction?
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