Ty Cobb Museum Brochure

YEARS OF Casey Stengel 20EXCELLENCE “I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one ever came close to him as the greatest all-time player. That guy was superhuman, amazing.” LIBRARY & RESEARCH CENTER VISIT MORE BASEBALL MUSEUMS IN THE REGION: Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum RELIVE 356 Field St., Greenville, SC 29601 www.shoelessjoejackson.org | 864-346-4867 BASEBALL Johnny Mize Museum 280 Laurel Ave., Demorest, GA 30535 HISTORY 800-277-7020 Ty Cobb Museum Lavonia Ty Cobb Statue Royston Bypass Ty Cobb Mausoleum The community served by the Ty Cobb Museum PECIAL cannot be geographically confined to the Royston S area. People essentially travel from all over the Carnesville Bowersville country and sometimes from other countries like Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom. Canon Franklin in St Hartwell St The Ty Cobb Museum has hosted over 54,000 Springs Cir a East M Cobb visitors in over twenty years and has generated Memorial St Ty Cobb St Cobb Ty nearly $1 million to the improvements of the Cook St exhibits and professional services inside the ED N Franklin Royston ITIO Turner St Springs museum. The community that the Ty Cobb Museum seeks to serve is a broad, complex, diverse Royston, Georgia group with various needs. However, the need Home of the most important is providing solid and accurate “Georgia Peach” information on Ty Cobb, his life, his stats, his record in Major League Baseball and his story outside the game. This is something provided to these communities in the way of education for nearly twenty years, especially his lifetime batting average of .367 and his career base hits at 4,191. Since we opened in July 1998, our 461 Cook St. • Royston, GA 30662 technique for the development of education www.tycobbmuseum.org | 706.245.1825 and consistency has been to listen to our customers, to understand those customers’ HOURS OF OPERATION needs, and to research and develop programs Monday-Friday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. that meet those needs, establishing 20 years Saturday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 706.245.1825 of excellent customer service. Sunday: Closed www.tycobbmuseum.org from Atlanta Braves standout Chipper Jones and ESPN baseball analyst Peter Gammons. The Cobb Theater features stadium-styled seating nestled within a beautiful mural collage. Rare photographs and other pieces of artwork also tell the compelling story of how Cobb rose to the pinnacle of his sport not through exceptional talent, but through sheer will and a relentless determination to be the best. The Cobb Collection spans the life of the man who holds more significant baseball records than anyone in the history of our national pastime. At .367, Cobb still holds baseball’s highest career Unveiling of the Ty Cobb Statue by the City of Royston, batting average, while registering a record 12 Georgia, in May 2017. Sculpted by Felix de Weldon. batting titles in a span of 13 seasons. Come witness OFFICIAL MLB STATS the • .367 Batting Average greatness • 12 AL Batting Titles of a true • 4,191 Base Hits Georgia • 892 Stolen Bases legend. • 2,245 Runs Scored • 1909 Triple Crown Cobb’s complex personality earned him the CLASS OF 1964 reputation as baseball’s fiercest competitor, • 3,033 Games INDUCTEE The museum, located in the Joe A. Adams and his competitive zeal carried over to Professional Building on the property once owned • 11,429 At Bats his life outside of baseball, making him a by Ty Cobb’s family in his hometown of Royston, • First Player Voted Into the multimillionaire. But few know the story of offers an unprecedented opportunity for fans Baseball Hall of Fame, 1936. how Cobb used his wealth to establish the to relive baseball history by viewing artifacts, Cobb Memorial Hospital in Royston, Georgia, original works of art and visual accounts of the which was considered the crown jewel of brilliant, articulate man known as the famed an integrated rural healthcare system for “Georgia Peach.” sixty years and served thousands of patients You will travel back in time to the early 1900s, Visit the Ty Cobb Museum annually throughout northeast Georgia. a time when baseball was what Cobb called He also earmarked one-quarter of his to relive baseball history “something like a war.” A moving tribute, narrated significant income to set up the Cobb Scholarship by Georgia legend Larry Munson, features rare and see the other side of Cobb. Fund, which now helps send more than 300 action footage and interviews, including thoughts Georgians to college each year. “There is only one Cobb, and I shall always cherish “He has contributed to the happiness of millions “For years Cobb has been the hitting marvel of the fact that it has been my privilege to have played of people. He has the satisfaction of knowing that baseball. He surprises the team and double- 20 years along with him, and to have his feats and he has done more for baseball than any other crosses the enemy so frequently that he is almost deeds as an ideal to aspire to emulate.” man that ever adopted it as a profession.” a team in himself.” –Eddie Collins, Philadelphia Athletics –Frank J. Navin, Detroit Tigers Owner –Hugh Jennings, Manager of Detroit Tigers.

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