Former Detroit Tigers Star Ty Cobb and His Long Journey Home To Georgia

Wesley Fricks by Analyst Written on June 10, 2009
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            “So long as suns are warm, baseballs thrown and hit; as long as grass grows green on the infields of diamonds in great cities and bush-league towns, and the bleachers stand to cheer and jeer, so long will they remember Tyrus Raymond Cobb.”

                                                                 Ralph McGill; Publisher of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution

 

        “All my interest lie over those mountains,” said Ty as he takes one of his last look over the Sierra range and pointing east toward Georgia some 3,000 miles away. His intentions was to take up residence in Royston to “live out his days” on the land near where his father raised crops and sent Ty, Paul and Florence to school.

 

       His interest lie mostly now in his two personalized projects, the Cobb Memorial Hospital and the Cobb Educational Foundation. Both organizations he held close to his heart.

 

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