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Originally Posted by Casey2296
Make a post and introduce yourself. I don't want to call you TRC4191, what's your name?
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Phil,
I would not normally do this, but since you ask for an introduction, I post below a short bio which has appeared on the Museum Website in the past:
Dr. William R. Cobb
"Ron"
Ron Cobb is an editor, author, amateur baseball historian and collector of baseball memorabilia, with particular interest in Ty Cobb.
As an editor, Ron has published five biographies of Ty Cobb, including
Memoirs of Twenty Years in Baseball by Ty Cobb (2002),
Busting 'Em by Ty Cobb (2003),
Which was Greatest: Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth?, by H. G. Salsinger (2008),
My Twenty Years in Baseball by Ty Cobb (Dover, 2009) and
Ty Cobb: Two Biographies by H. G. Salsinger (McFarland, 2012). He also edited and published the biographies
Honus Wagner: On his Life and Baseball by Honus Wagner (Ann Arbor Media, 2006) and
Playing the Game by Babe Ruth (Dover, 2011). These biographies were originally published in the early 1900s as serial newspapers articles, and were buried in libraries as microfilm and bound newspaper volumes They had never before been published in book form.
In 2010, Ron authored a breakthrough article titled "The Georgia Peach - Stumped by the Storyteller," peer-reviewed and published by
The National Pastime, a journal of the Society for American Baseball Research.. This article presented newly discovered historical proof that dispelled many of the negative myths about Ty Cobb. The article won the 2010 National McFarland/SABR award for the best baseball history research article of the year. In 2013, Ron expanded the research done for this article and published it in book form with the same title. (You can now read this book on line at
https://issuu.com/ty_cobb/docs/the_g...he_storyteller )
In 2020, Ron's article was selected by SABR as one of the 50 most important and most influential articles it had published in its 50 year history, and it was reprinted in their 50th Anniversary commemorative book:
SABR 50 at 50.
Ron served on the Board of Advisors for the Ty Cobb Museum from 2004 to 2014, and began his second term on the Board in 2018. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Children's Foundation of Paulding County from 2014 to 2020. He has been married to his wife, Jeanette, for 55 years, and is the proud father of two daughters and a son, and the grandfather of five grandsons.
Ron is not a descendant of Ty Cobb, rather he describes himself as a 'distant Georgia cousin." Ron was raised in Georgia with the family story that he was somehow related to the great Ty Cobb. But no one ever told him exactly how. After several years of genealogical research some in his family now believe that they descend from the half-brother of Ty Cobb's great-great grandfather.