Image
Ty Cobb sliding into base
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
Resource ID:
hr002658
Date Issued:
1909
Format:
1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Filing Location:
Photographs-Biography-Cobb, Tyrus (Ty)
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.