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Show Stretch of Consecutive .300 Seasons for Cobb If Ty Cobb bat3 .300 this season (and one of the snfest predictions In baseball that we know of ls that he will) his stretch of consecutive .300 seasons will reach 23. No other player, living or dead, ever had more, than 20 seasons ot .300 clubbing (n his record. Adrian C Anson, the Immortal captain cap-tain of the Chicagos, had averages of .300 or better for the first 20 seasons of his career. Anson played major league ball from 1ST1 to 1S97 Inclusive, a stretch of 27 seasons. Cobb 13 playing his twenty-fourth season In the American league. If he sticks to his present plans he will not equal Anson's record of 27 seasons. Cobb Intends to make this his last year. He is positive that he will retire at the end of the season. If he does change his mind and consent to try another season, 1920 will certainly see his retirement to private life. While Anson played 27 years, Cobb has played more games than Anson, or any other man for that matter. In the day when Anson was a great slugger slug-ger the seasons did not carry 154-game schedules. |