[Ty Cobb, baseball player for Detroit Tigers, batting at South Side Park]., 1907
American Memory
I
t was traditional on Labor Day for gentlemen in the stands to toss their straw hats onto the field to mark the end of the summer and the baseball season. Cobb would collect the hats and take them back to his Georgia farm for his mules to wear.Source: info.detnews.com/history/ story/index.cfm?id=9..
Source:
www.famousfoto.com/ 156.htm
Source: The Baseball Gallery
Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson
Source:
www.historyimages.com/
Classic Cobb Photo
Source: Leland.com
Sheet Music, 1913.
"Ty Cobb Royal Tailors Advertisement,"
Baseball Magazine, October, 1913.
Source: American Athletic
Foundation's Digital Archive
"The Georgia Peach"
by John H. McGough
Source: Baseball Magazine (October, 1913)