Ty Cobb's Batting Average

At seventy years old, Ty Cobb, considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, was asked by a reporter, “What do you think your batting average would be if you were playing today? Do you think you could get close to your lifetime average of .367?” Cobb responded, “I’d probably hit around .290 nowadays.”

The reporter followed up, “Is that because of the intense travel schedules, night games,…