The Trickiest Pitcher Baseball Legend Ty Cobb Believed He Ever Faced
The MLB Hall-of-Famer saw a lot of different hurlers during his lengthy career, but one stood out as having the filthiest stuff
Former outfielder Ty Cobb still holds the all-time big league record for career batting average despite last playing a game nearly a century ago. Therefore, it’s a reasonable assumption to make that he knew pitchers. During a 24-playing career, the Hall-of-Famer faced off against and studied numerous hurlers, but one always struck him as having the trickiest, most devious stuff; above and beyond the rest of the field. That pitcher was Eddie Cicotte.
Between 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. His intensity was so well known 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 rebranded into someone who was a sadistic monster instead of a hard-nosed and determined ball player.
Naturally, Cobb was a student of hitting and pitching. He saw well over 1,000 hurlers during his…
