I am sorry to see you ruin a good article on Ty Cobb by peddling those inaccurate stats.
Ty Cobb batted .367 over 24 big league seasons from 1905-1928. His career batting average of .367 and his career hits of 4,191 are the official stats recognized by Major League Baseball, Ty Cobb, and Elias Sports Bureau, the official statistician of Major League Baseball since 1913.
The incorrect batting average of .366 was brought before the MLB records committee on Saturday April 13, 1981 and because of inconclusive evidence, the inability to change all player errors and the expiration of the statue of limitation, Major League Baseball declined to change Ty Cobb's batting average and his career hits total of 4,191.
Therefore, his career batting average of .367 will continue to be the ideal mark for young baseball players to aspire to duplicate.
I am sorry to see you ruin a good article on Ty Cobb by peddling those inaccurate stats.
Ty Cobb batted .367 over 24 big league seasons from 1905-1928. His career batting average of .367 and his career hits of 4,191 are the official stats recognized by Major League Baseball, Ty Cobb, and Elias Sports Bureau, the official statistician of Major League Baseball since 1913.
The incorrect batting average of .366 was brought before the MLB records committee on Saturday April 13, 1981 and because of inconclusive evidence, the inability to change all player errors and the expiration of the statue of limitation, Major League Baseball declined to change Ty Cobb's batting average and his career hits total of 4,191.
Therefore, his career batting average of .367 will continue to be the ideal mark for young baseball players to aspire to duplicate.
You may be right. I don't have access to Elias.
When I do stats, I use baseball-reference.com
Perhaps I need to reconsider.
4,191 and .367 are the numbers I remember, for sure. I was surprised to see them different.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cobbty01.shtml
Thanks for reading.
Brian,
No offense to you, but using BR may be bad for business as they are all over the place with their stats. Zero accuracy with those guys!
***Now edited for some clarification.
I'd never considered it until now, but I will.
Thanks, Wesley.