This day in history -- the August Tourists play a rookie
 

Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>1904 - Ty Cobb, making his pro baseball debut at the age of seventeen, hits a home run and double for the Augusta Tourists in the South Atlantic League.

This day in history -- the August Tourists play a rookie
 

Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Wouldn't it be great to find a card of him from 1904? I bet he already had the fire in his eyes at that age and unfortunately some fire in his heart too....

This day in history -- the August Tourists play a rookie
 

Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>I'm sure people like Cobb are born with a portion of that sort of negativity imprinted into their genes, but something tells me the 1904 Tyrus would have been a touch more blue-eyed. The whole "mother shooting the father" hulabaloo was yet to come. That really seemed to run congruent with the hardening of Cobb's psyche. From a psychological perspective, that, to me, can be easily understood. <br /><br />Here's a pic of what Cobb looked like just one year later (if not less that that):<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1209276580.JPG">