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706.245.1825www.tycobbmuseum.org

The community served by the Ty Cobb Museum cannot be geographically confined to the Royston area. People essentially travel from all over the country and sometimes from other countries like Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom.

The Ty Cobb Museum has hosted over 54,000 visitors in over twenty years and has generated nearly $1 million to the improvements of the exhibits and professional services inside the museum.

The community that the Ty Cobb Museum seeks to serve is a broad, complex, diverse group with various needs. However, the need most important is providing solid and accurate information on Ty Cobb, his life, his stats, his record in Major League Baseball and his story outside the game. This is something provided to these communities in the way of education for nearly twenty years, especially his lifetime batting average of .367 and his career base hits at 4,191.

Since we opened in July 1998, our technique for the development of education and consistency has been to listen to our customers, to understand those customers’ needs, and to research and develop programs that meet those needs, establishing 20 years of excellent customer service.

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461 Cook St. • Royston, GA 30662www.tycobbmuseum.org | 706.245.1825

HOURS OF OPERATIONMonday-Friday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.Sunday: Closed

YEARS OFEXCELLENCE20 Casey Stengel

“I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one ever came close to him as the

greatest all-time player. That guy was superhuman, amazing.”

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Royston, GeorgiaHome of the

“Georgia Peach”

Ty Cobb Museum

Ty Cobb Statue

Ty Cobb Mausoleum

The museum, located in the Joe A. Adams Professional Building on the property once owned by Ty Cobb’s family in his hometown of Royston, offers an unprecedented opportunity for fans to relive baseball history by viewing artifacts, original works of art and visual accounts of the brilliant, articulate man known as the famed “Georgia Peach.”

You will travel back in time to the early 1900s, a time when baseball was what Cobb called “something like a war.” A moving tribute, narrated by Georgia legend Larry Munson, features rare action footage and interviews, including thoughts

from Atlanta Braves standout Chipper Jones and ESPN baseball analyst Peter Gammons.

The Cobb Theater features stadium-styled seating nestled within a beautiful mural collage. Rare photographs and other pieces of artwork also tell the compelling story of how Cobb rose to the pinnacle of his sport not through exceptional talent, but through sheer will and a relentless determination to be the best.

The Cobb Collection spans the life of the man who holds more significant baseball records than anyone in the history of our national pastime. At .367, Cobb still holds baseball’s highest career batting average, while registering a record 12 batting titles in a span of 13 seasons.

Cobb’s complex personality earned him the reputation as baseball’s fiercest competitor, and his competitive zeal carried over to his life outside of baseball, making him a multimillionaire. But few know the story of how Cobb used his wealth to establish the Cobb Memorial Hospital in Royston, Georgia, which was considered the crown jewel of an integrated rural healthcare system for sixty years and served thousands of patients annually throughout northeast Georgia.

He also earmarked one-quarter of his significant income to set up the Cobb Scholarship Fund, which now helps send more than 300 Georgians to college each year.

“There is only one Cobb, and I shall always cherish the fact that it has been my privilege to have played 20 years along with him, and to have his feats and deeds as an ideal to aspire to emulate.”

–Eddie Collins, Philadelphia Athletics

“He has contributed to the happiness of millions of people. He has the satisfaction of knowing that he has done more for baseball than any other man that ever adopted it as a profession.”

–Frank J. Navin, Detroit Tigers Owner

“For years Cobb has been the hitting marvel of baseball. He surprises the team and double-crosses the enemy so frequently that he is almost a team in himself.”

–Hugh Jennings, Manager of Detroit Tigers

Unveiling of the Ty Cobb Statue by the City of Royston, Georgia, in May 2017. Sculpted by Felix de Weldon.

OFFICIAL MLB STATS• .367 Batting Average• 12 AL Batting Titles • 4,191 Base Hits• 892 Stolen Bases• 2,245 Runs Scored• 1909 Triple Crown• 3,033 Games• 11,429 At Bats• First Player Voted Into the

Baseball Hall of Fame, 1936.

Come witness the greatness of a true Georgia legend.

Visit the Ty Cobb Museumto relive baseball history

and see the other side of Cobb.

CLASS OF 1964INDUCTEE