So the recent news that Major League Baseball had re-crunched its trove of statistics and taken the legendary Ty Cobb down a notch from first to second place among all-time batting champs had many ...

The backlash from Major League Baseball's announcement last week that it was absorbing Negro League statistics into the game's official historical record was almost immediate in a Facebook fan ...

Cobb, the winner of a record 12 batting titles and whose ... William tried to discourage Ty from playing baseball as a youngster. William was quoted as saying: "There's nothing so useless on ...

Despite his outstanding numbers, Ty Cobb was universally hated ... And that's really saying something, since he had a lifetime .367 batting average. Look for his picture next to "surly" in ...