Evening star., 1924-02-10

Cobb degan to play ball for the
tetroit Americans in 1906 and he
rs been with the team ever since.
'uriuG that time he has hung up
ighteen records. for the statistics
this mighty player, when they
.pnc to the fan from the compiler
t deeds, will show these exhibits:
List of His Feats.
/. Most games played in the
American League-2,4f9.
,. Highest individual batting per-
.cntagc. tied with Sisler at 420.
>. Highest batting percentage in
ais lifetime as major league player
or all of nineteen years. 1905-1923,
4 mark of 81.
4. Most years leading Il major
league in batting, and nine of them
'onsecutively. The total years We're
twelve
5. In the years Of 191l-19l2 and
1929 he batted 400 or better, equal
.ne the record of Jesse Burket
i.eague before the star Of Cobb had
.iSen.
6. For two years in succession he
Datted more than 400 and again tied
the record of Burkett.
Z. He has batted 800 or better in
eighteen SeaSons-mOre than any
other player who has belonged to the
american League since it's organiZa-
ton. in 1900.
s. Not only did Cobb bat 800 or
better during these eighteen Years,
but he made the record conSecutively.
speaker and Eddie Collins are the
only players anywhere near him.
Perhaps neither of them will be in
service long enough to catch him.
9. Cobb batted 200 hits or more in
eight years That takes him up to
Willie keeler'S record.
10. Cobb has been at bat 9,313
times in the American League.
Holds Record as Scorer.
II. Cobb holds the American
League record for the most runs,
with u total of 1926 in nineteen years.
II. In nine years Cobb made 100
or more runs. This is the American
League record.
Is. In nineteen years Cobb has
made the most base hits in the Amer
lean League. The total is 3,455. Can
Babe Ruth do that" Hardly a chance.
Babe can swat 'em so they fly, but
Babe isn't likely to have legs that
will carry him to nineteen years of
such batting as Cobb has done.
II. In nineteen years of arduous
labor Cobb has made 929 extra base
hits for the American League, some
thing else that Babe is not likely to
do.
1J. In the same nineteen years
Cobb made 1872 extra bases on hits.
10 Again III lnlS nlnetetu- y ear
period Cobb batted the highest total
of bases. 4,S27.
II. Cobb holds the record for max
ing the most one-base hits in his
ledgue-2,J26.
IS. Cobb also holds the record for
making the most three-base hits in
nineteen years, Il total of 259.
Legs Arc Big Factor.
That. by the way, is one of the
he
because the three-base hit is becom-
asst runner has stretched an ordinary
wo- bagger one base more, or that
very heavy runner fails to get a
lome run because his wind and his
egS give out by the time that he
las got to third.
Many a player might be helped if
here were only a training school
or legs. Spring practice is only
mother name for getting rid of fat
md putting spring into the muscles.
What a really great ball player needs
most of all is a pair of really great
.eSs.
Some ballet dancers dance from
sixteen to sixty and never know they
nave legs, until they put on stock
ngs and slippers, but a ban player
after ten years of service starts
around the bases some day and sud-
denly comes up with a hitch and a
halt and maybe crawlS into the next
base.
That is the end
Copyright, 1924.l