TY COBB·1917

The summer of 1917 belonged to the Georgia Peach. Cobb hit .383 for Detroit — 225 hits, 44 doubles, 24 triples — pure menace in a dead-ball year. He swiped 55 bags, scored 107 runs, drove in 102, and posted a .570 slug that sounded like thunder on a quiet afternoon. Peak Peach. The frames that follow show how one swing turns into three kinds of trouble.

.383 STORM

Two hundred twenty-five hits and a .383 clip — balls spraying to every field while Detroit’s Peach ate the summer alive.

55 BAGS

Fifty-five steals — spikes and dust, first to third as a dare the infield never quite answered.

PEAK PEACH

Peak SkillScore season on the quiet card — .570 slug that sounded like thunder on a dead-ball afternoon.

Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers, 1913. National Photo Company / Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (US).