Cobb in a sentence

Bak (2005), p. 177 After Cobb died, a reporter found hundreds of letters in Cobb's home that Cobb had written to influential people lobbying for Crawford's induction into the Hall of Fame.

Cobb biographer Richard Bak noted that the two "only barely tolerated each other" and agreed with Cobb that Crawford's attitude was driven by Cobb's having stolen Crawford's thunder.

In 1908, Cobb attacked a black laborer in Detroit who complained when Cobb stepped into freshly poured asphalt; Cobb was found guilty of battery but the sentence was suspended.

Seeing how stricken by grief Cobb is after his wife's death, Miles could hire Ariadne to help extract this from Cobb's mind.

The four members of the House of Torture suddenly got in the ring to attack Cobb, and they put their boots to Cobb as the crowd loudly booed.

The tiny Queensland towns of Surat and Yuleba, about 60km from Roma, celebrated Cobb & Co's anniversary in August with dinners, markets and concerts, before culminating in a re-enactment ride along Cobb & Co Way between the two communities.

Cobb and Kelly then accompanied Washington for some years, a period in which Cobb was having a relationship with her, and a young was writing some of the singer’s arrangements.

Although Cobb was credited with a higher batting average, it was later discovered that one game had been counted twice so that Cobb actually lost to Lajoie.

Baseball had developed star players before, such as Cobb and "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, but both men had uneasy relations with fans, in Cobb's case sometimes marked by violence.

But ultimately, on July 17, 1998, the 37th anniversary of Cobb's death, the Ty Cobb Museum and the Franklin County Sports Hall of Fame opened its doors in Royston.

Cobb and Brownie player-manager George Sisler each pitched in the final game, Cobb pitching a perfect inning.

Cobb blamed his lackluster managerial record (479 wins against 444 losses) on Navin, who was arguably even more frugal than he was, passing up a number of quality players Cobb wanted to add to the team.

Cobb obtained the services of a man called Steer (first name unknown) to travel through Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and possibly other countries as well, with Cobb to be responsible for Steer.

Cobb then pushed him away, which was the last interaction that anyone saw between Cobb and Cummings.

Crawford recalled that, if he went three for four on a day when Cobb went hitless, Cobb would turn red and sometimes walk out of the park with the game still on.

Crawford was reportedly unaware of Cobb's efforts until after Cobb had died.

Perhaps the most curious item is a 1909 Ty Cobb Cigarettes pack, leaving some to believe Cobb either had, or attempted to have, his own brand of cigarettes.

Stump was later discredited when it became known that he had stolen items belonging to Cobb and also betrayed the access Cobb gave him in his final months.

The article further accused Stump of numerous false statements about Cobb in his last years, most of which were sensationalistic in nature and intended to cast Cobb in an unflattering light.

When the fight was broken up and Cobb had walked away, Schmidt remained behind and told the reporters that he saw Cobb assaulting Cummings and his wife and had intervened.