Ty Cobb Museum, Royston, Ga.

Hometown Tribute to the Georgia Peach

Entrance to the Ty Cobb Museum, Royston, Ga.

An exhibit portrays Cobb’s aggressive, scientific style of play.

Other walls feature tributes to various facets of "The Georgia Peach".

Quick Facts:

Location: Joe A. Adams Professional Building, Cook Street, Royston, Ga.
Opened: 1998
Web site: www.tycobbmuseum.org

For years, this sign along the highway was the only indication that a legend of baseball had grown up in this town an hour and a half east of Atlanta. Ty Cobb, the greatest hitter in the history of the game, chalked up 4191 hits and a .367 lifetime average (since revised to 4189 and .366) and scored 2245 runs, a record that stood until Rickey Henderson broke it in 2001.

But Cobb was not the most well-liked of men. Many of his fellow players shunned him because of his overly aggressive play. Cobb wasn’t afraid to do anything within the rules to achieve his goals. His take-out slides and sharpened spikes were known, and often reviled, throughout the baseball world. However, Cobb was also a very intelligent man who invested well throughout his life, and in 1949 he endowed the Cobb Memorial Hospital to honor his beloved father.

In 1998, the Ty Cobb Healthcare System repaid the favor, opening the Ty Cobb Museum in a wing of a professional building that hosts a clinic across the street from the hospital. The facilities are down Cook Street about a mile from the cemetery that contains the Cobb family mausoleum. While the hospital was moved to Lavonia several years ago in a merger with a nearby facility, the museum still stands in the professional building.

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