Look at the ears, it can't be him.....
Ty Cobb was born in 1886. Does that photo actually look like it came from the mid 1890s?
Is there any REAL provenance for this beside from the Ty Cobb Collection? If it came from one of Cobb's former teammates, does that mean that (most likely) the grandchild of the former teammate would know it was Ty Sr. for sure and not as others have indicated, Ty Jr. (born around 1910).