Could this Post Card be Ty Cobb??

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by bicem

jeff just bought it.

lolol

[jcmtiger]

I don't think so. The postcard falls into the same category as this postcard I picked up a few years ago.

Joe

[Jaybird]

Nice. Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb and Mel Ott in the same picture. Fantastic!

[dstraate]

Originally Posted by jaybird

nice. Joe jackson, ty cobb and mel ott in the same picture. Fantastic!

love it:d

[39special]

I think it's Ty's younger brother Corn.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by 39special

I think it's Ty's younger brother Corn.

Most people don't know this, but Ty did have a younger brother who played forever in the minor leagues...spending many of those years in Lincoln.

Paul Cobb is in the upper right corner -

[terjung]

After looking at it yesterday and today again, I have concluded that it is not him. I do not have the expertise that others here have, but from my lay perspective, the nose and ear comparisons indicate that it isn't him.

I looked at 2 photographs of him in later life for comparison of his ear placement on his head. Specifically, I was looking for where the top of his ear aligned with his eyebrows. I used the photograph on the right to find the angle of his head where the top of his ear would align with his eyebrow. Notice that the bottom of his nose doe not show the nostrils. This indicates a different nose angle or different nose bridge length.



When comparing a more straight on look such that the nostrils are showing, the top of his left ear is not aligned with his eyebrow.



Though it bears a little similarity upon first glance, I'll put myself out there and say that it isn't him.
My analysis isn't anywhere close to as good as bmarlowe's and I'm certain that my description falls short, but it was enough to convince me that the kid isn't Cobb.

[bmarlowe1]

Young Cobb on the left, not Cobb on the right.

[rc4157]

Looks more like Robert Redford to me, "The Natural" - Young Version!
RC