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The Hulton Archive - Ty Cobb "The Catch" Limited Edition 16x23 Fine Art Giclee on Paper #12/375 (PA

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The Hulton Archive - Ty Cobb  The Catch  Limited Edition 16x23 Fine Art Giclee on Paper #12/375 (PA

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Auction Date:2018 Feb 28 @ 20:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:2320 W Peoria Ave Suite B142, Phoenix, Arizona, 85029, United States
Photo taken 03/1921- Ty Cobb, one of baseball's greatest base runners reaching for a catch during a workout with the Detroit Tigers, for whom he played 22 years of baseball. During his 24 years in major league baseball, he compiled a lifetime batting average of .367. Credit: Bettmann / Contributor

This Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee is printed on acid-free museum quality paper with a hand-torn deckled edge. It is hand-titled, hand-numbered and features an embossed seal of authenticity from the Hulton|Archive Collection. Edition size is limited to 375 pieces.

Measures approximately 16" x 23" in size. SRP $695 ©Hulton|Archive of London, Bettmann / Contributor

Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed The Georgia Peach, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1936 Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes (98.2%); no other player received a higher percentage of votes until 1992. In 1999, editors at the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb 3rd on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players".

Cobb is widely credited with setting 90 MLB records during his career. His combined total of 4,065 runs scored and runs batted in (after adjusting for home runs) is still the highest ever produced by any major league player. He still holds several records as of the end of the 2016 season, including the highest career batting average (.366 or .367, depending on source) and most career batting titles with 11 (or 12, depending on source).He retained many other records for almost a half century or more, including most career hits until 1985 (4,189 or 4,191, depending on source), most career runs (2,245 or 2,246 depending on source) until 2001, most career games played (3,035) and at bats (11,429 or 11,434 depending on source) until 1974, and the modern record for most career stolen bases (892) until 1977. He still holds the career record for stealing home (54 times) and for stealing second base, third base, and home in succession and as the youngest player ever to compile 4,000 hits and score 2,000 runs. Cobb ranks fifth all-time in number of games played and committed 271 errors, the most by any American League (AL) outfielder.

The Bettmann Archive is a collection of 19 million photographs and images, some going back to the United States Civil War and including some of the best known U.S. sports and historic images.

About Hulton|Archive of London

The Hulton|Archive was formed after two of the leading historical stock houses – The Hulton in London and Archive Photos in New York. The Hulton|Archive is one of the largest collections of photography and illustrative material in the world containing over 40 million images.

The archival collection contains historically and socially significant imagery that documents the human experience through the 19th and 20th centuries up to the present day. The collection features images of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Wizard of Oz and others.