Who made it onto the Mount Rushmore of Detroit Tiger Greats and who was left off

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Ty Cobb, 1912.
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Walter Johnson and Ty Cobb colorized.
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Ty Cobb and Miggy are the only Tigers to have won a Triple Crown, a rare feat indeed.
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Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie, 1910.
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Stan Musial and Ty Cobb.
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4 legendary ball players lacing them up in the cold of Philadelphia's Shibe Park in 1928. 2 stars in their final season & 2 w/a lot of slugging yet to do!
Tris Speaker (.267/3/30)(64 Gm)
Ty Cobb (.323/1/40)(95 Gm)
Babe Ruth (.323/54/146)(154 Gm)
Lou Gehrig (.374/27/147)(154 Gm)
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Stan Musial and Ty Cobb: 19 Batting titles and 7,821 Hits.
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Ty Cobb hit .350 in his first full MLB season (1907) and .357 in his final full season (1927).
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Shoeless Joe Jackson. Ty Cobb. Nap Lajoie.

#3, #1, and #18 in career Batting Average.

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[kalinecountry]

Ty Cobb debuted in 1905 (18 yo) and hit .238
He hit .300+ each of the next 23 seasons.
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Ty Cobb. Buster Keaton. Corn on the cob.
Baseball and Americana for the win.
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1911. A Rookie, a Super Star, and a Franchise. 3x Legends of the game brought to life with our color added. Of these 3, the lowest of their batting averages in 1911 was .365! What?!
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Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker at League Park. Notice how Cobb is wearing a Cleveland uniform. He lost his Detroit uniform for the Addie Joss benefit game and had to wear a Naps jersey.
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Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker at League Park. Notice how Cobb is wearing a Cleveland uniform. He lost his Detroit uniform for the Addie Joss benefit game and had to wear a Naps jersey.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhIv6RyXEAEO74B?format=jpg&name=small

I saw that when I was a teenager. My parents bought a great baseball book for me that showed this picture and explained that he lost his. Very cool.

 

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Christy Mathewson and Ty Cobb. #VeteransDay
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Thanks to BigGunsBob for finding this about Ty Cobb's Military career in WWI.
Ty Cobbs Military Career:
Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Legend Ty Cobb Served as World War I Soldier.
Some cool pictures.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature...nt, France.

 

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Ty Cobb and Jim Thorpe early in their Baseball careers.
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Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Sam Crawford of the Detroit Tigers holds the Major League Baseball triples record, with 309. Second to him is his Tigers teammate, the immortal Ty Cobb, with 297, the American League record.
Ty and Sam are picture here with Joe Jackson.
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Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker: 7,703 combined hits.
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Pirates vs Tigers during an exhibition game at Syracuse Archbold Stadium.
This picture of Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb is new to me.
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