Rare Ty Cobb pictures

[Wesley Fricks]

Unfortunately, the picture in question is NOT Ty Cobb. It looks to be a valuable picture to the history of baseball, if the person can be identified. While there may seem to be some similarities, there is definitives that exclude this from being Ty Cobb.

[Wesley Fricks]

Ty is the one on the bottom left hand side. His uncle Clifford Ginn is standing on the far left. In 1910, someone made a baseball card of Ty and mistakingly used his uncle's photo and when Ty was told about it, he got a big kick out of it.

Wesley Fricks

I personally can't really say for sure which one is Ty in that pic that I found.
This is the description it came with:

The Earliest Known Ty Cobb Baseball Photograph. The letter "R" on the gentleman's sweater in the front row is for "Royston," the small Georgia town that grew the legendary Peach. And though a vintage ink notation on verso mistakenly locates the young Tyrus Cobb as seated at far left, the fierce, determined looking young man standing in the back row wearing a straw bowler and bow tie is clearly the future terror of the American League. We date this exceptionally scarce sepia toned photograph to the 1902 to 1904 range, when Ty was fifteen to seventeen years old. He huddles with the team manager and the other eight players of the Royston Nine for this posed studio shot, originally acquired from the estate of a Cobb teammate. A certain degree of wear is to be expected from a century-old photo, though the scattered small holes and assorted wrinkles do not dare to cross paths with the young Cobb.

[MrHaroldG]

That famous photo of Cobb coming into home plate with his spikes high (the photo in post 274, bottom right)...has anyone found out the name of the catcher Cobb was attempting to spike?

[TonyK]

That famous photo of Cobb coming into home plate with his spikes high (the photo in post 274, bottom right)...has anyone found out the name of the catcher Cobb was attempting to spike?

The catcher's name was Paul Krichell of the St. Louis Browns. According to biographer Charles Leerhsen, Cobb slid in high to knock the baseball out of Krichell's hand. The two of them then fought after the play was over. According to Leerhsen, Cobb was adamant that the base paths belonged to him as the base runner, and he made sure that infielders knew that.

[ATL4LYF]

As a huge Ty Cobb fan these photos are superb, and many I haven't seen before. Thanks for these wonderful photos.