Thorn: Ty Cobb remembers his greatest day in baseball

From SABR member John Thorn at Our Game on January 2, 2013:

This may be my favorite ballgame of all. It is not baseball’s greatest (think Game 3 of the 1951 NL playoff, or June 14, 1870, when the Cincinnati Red Stockings finally lost a game), but it is the one I wish I had attended in person. I included it in my book Baseball’s Ten Greatest Games, more than thirty years ago. But instead of my reprising that piece for you now, why not let Ty Cobb tell you all about it? He was there, on that 30th day of September in 1907.

If I were asked to reassess my ten greatest games today some of those games I chose for that book, I would have to drop some off the list–how else to work in Kirk Gibson and Jack Morris and David Freese?

But not this one. Come along with me now: the Tigers of Crawford and Cobb are about to do battle with the Athletics of Plank and Waddell, and the lines at the ticket booths are long.

Read the full article here: http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2013/01/02/ty-cobb-remembers/



Originally published: January 2, 2013. Last Updated: January 2, 2013.