Posted By:
Dave F
"If Cobb's father was an elected politician in Georgia State Government, it may be possible that he was able to get the ATC to print some cards up for his own distribution? I forget, is there any evidence that the ATC produced Ty Cobb brand cigarettes other than the backs of those cards (liek an ad or a pack) - which appear to me to come from the same factory as the Piedmont 350 backs - which to me does not suggest that "Ty Cobb" was an actual brand. At best, I like the inclusion of the Ty Cobb backs in the Piedmont 350 backed cigarette cartons as a promotional item hypothesis, until some more solid evidence appears."
Ty Cobb's father had already been shot dead before 1910...so the possibility his father would have been able to pull some strings with the ATC doesn't hold water.