• Card series: Pilgrims
• City: Detroit
• Team: Tigers
• League: American League
• Hall: National Baseball Hall of Fame

Tyrus Raymond Cobb (1886-1961) swept over the baseball landscape like a tidal wave. He lived by a fierce code that drove him to greatness and others to distraction. At the end, his own words could be his epitaph: “But I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.”

• Cobb never won a World Series and performed with mediocrity in his only three tries
• No one of his era came close to the impact, for good or ill, made by this snarling Tiger
• Elected to Hall of Fame: 1936