Ty Cobb sliding into base
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Description
View of Ty Cobb, baseball player for the Detroit Tigers, sliding into third base. Philadelphia Athletics baseball player Frank Baker stands over third base. Typed on back: "Ty Cobb, 1909. This picture prevented Cobb's suspension for life from base ball on charges that he intentionally spiked the arm of Home Run Baker of Phila. Athletics. Photo proved that Cobb threw his body to the inside trying to evade Bakers tag at third base. Wm. A. Kuenzel."
Details
- Creator:
- Kuenzel, William A., 1884-1964
- Resource ID:
- hr002658
- Subject:
- Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961
- Baker, John Franklin, 1886-1963
- Baseball players--Michigan--Detroit
- Baseball players--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)
- Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team)
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1909
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- Ernie Harwell Sports Collection
- Location:
- Photographs-Biography-Cobb, Tyrus (Ty)
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.