Ty Cobb: World's First Cancelled Figure  (4K UHD Documentary)
Channel: pie.
Date: 2021-04-22

Tyrus Raymond Cobb, nicknamed The Georgia Peach, was an American Major League Baseball 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. 

Ty Cobb's life after baseball was restless and apparently unhappy. Already a millionaire, he did not have to work. He refused offers to become a ball club executive or manager, and opportunities to purchase clubs fell through. He used part of his fortune for philanthropic purposes in his home state of Georgia, funding the construction of the Cobb Memorial Hospital in Royston to perpetuate his parents' names. He also established the Cobb Educational Fund, to provide scholarships-nonathletic scholarships to worthy Georgia students.

He led the league in runs, hits, doubles, triples, RBI, slugging percentage, and stolen bases. He regularly led the league in batting and was at or near the top of most offensive categories. In addition to his success in the field, the second decade of the twentieth century brought economic affluence to Ty Cobb

W.H. Cobb was an educated man and wanted his son to be a professional. But, while highly intelligent, young Ty didn’t enjoy his studies, and efforts by his father to interest him in law or medicine were unsuccessful. However, Cobb loved, respected, and even idolized his father. W.H. Cobb was by far the most influential person in Ty’s life. As Cobb related much later, “My father was the greatest man I ever knew. He was a scholar, state senator, editor, and philosopher. I worshiped him. He  was the only man who ever made me do his bidding.”

W.H. Cobb was an educated man and wanted his son to be a professional. But, while highly intelligent, young Ty didn’t enjoy his studies, and efforts by his father to interest him in law or medicine were unsuccessful. However, Cobb loved, respected, and even idolized his father. W.H. Cobb was by far the most influential person in Ty’s life. As Cobb related much later, “My father was the greatest man I ever knew. He was a scholar, state senator, editor, and philosopher. I worshiped him. He  was the only man who ever made me do his bidding.”

Documentary Made By: 
Elysian Productions
Mitchell Meister
With the Help of Patrick Dwyer

Citations:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkke_LsXWX5wq3nCclXBtGKSdbRUl1IVVlNZoJ6mY9A/edit?usp=sharing

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