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The Earliest Known Ty Cobb Baseball Photograph The Earliest Known Ty Cobb Baseball Photograph.

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The Earliest Known Ty Cobb Baseball Photograph The Earliest Known Ty Cobb Baseball Photograph.
<B>The Earliest Known Ty Cobb Baseball Photograph.</B></I> The letter "R" on the gentleman's sweater in the front row is for "Royston," the small Georgia town that grew the legendary Peach. And though a vintage ink notation on verso mistakenly locates the young Tyrus Cobb as seated at far left, the fierce, determined looking young man standing in the back row wearing a straw bowler and bow tie is clearly the future terror of the American League. We date this exceptionally scarce sepia toned photograph to the 1902 to 1904 range, when Ty was fifteen to seventeen years old. He huddles with the team manager and the other eight players of the Royston Nine for this posed studio shot, originally acquired from the estate of a Cobb teammate. A certain degree of wear is to be expected from a century-old photo, though the scattered small holes and assorted wrinkles do not dare to cross paths with the young Cobb. Dimensions are 4x5.5". For only the most advanced baseball photography collectors.