Baseball Legend Ty Cobb’s Surprising Pick Of Who Was The Greatest Pitcher He Ever Saw
One of the greatest players in the history of the sport chose another all-time great, albeit one who is rarely mentioned in conversations about the best
Nearly a century after he last played, baseball legend Ty Cobb remains the standard bearer of hitting. Still holding the record for the highest career batting average of all time, he saw many pitchers during his 24 year playing career, and in the decades after, as he remained closely tied to the game. Although the hurler he identified in the waning days of his playing career as the best he ever faced was a baseball great in his own right, his choice would likely surprise most fans.
During a remarkable career (1905–1928) with the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics, the left-handed hitting Cobb batted an all-time record .366 with 4,189 base hits, 117 home runs, 1,944 RBIs, 2,245 runs scored and 897 stolen bases. Naturally, his performance made him an inaugural member of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. However, his fiery intensity was so notorious that over time, with the help of those seeking profits (authors who invented wholesale stories and lies about his life and career and sold them as fact), his reputation was…
