ATHENEUM:
1. Any gallery, building, study hall or digital space used as a library or reading room.
2. Any institution, such as a literary club, website, or scientific academy, for the promotion of learning and education.
3. Any place, such as a website, library or digital space, where printed or other learning materials are available for reading and reviewing.
4. Any association for the study or advancement of learning, particularly in the fields of science or literature.
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Manager Jennings On Cobb
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TY COBB BASEBALL ATHENEUM REPOSITORY
A Digital Holding Honoring The Georgia Peach!
Video Holdings.
Our video holdings consist of rare footage of Ty Cobb when he conducted his first interview with audio to the more recent interview with historians and authors that have revealed the true facts relating to Ty Cobb. The holdings also includes film on the Museum and other related film and documentaries.
Image Depository
A Lifetime Of Pictures
Visit the Image Depository and view photos that tell the story of Ty Cobb. His life in baseball was thoroughly documented through photos and a little bit of film footage, but mostly still imagery. While capturing his life off the diamond, this is the core collection of his life.
Digital Library
The Atheneum Digital Library
The Digital Library will evolve into the largest collection of Ty Cobb documents anywhere on the web. Ty Cobb’s life on and off the field was a magnate for newspaper inklings all across the country. The library will also cover imortant documents about Cobb’s life outside of baseball.
Cobblog
Historical Penning
The Cobblog will be a series of ongoing stories released from the Shrine that will play a vital role in supporting the story of Ty Cobb presented from this site. All stories will be researched and careful consideration will be employed to make sure the most accurate record is shared with our valued readership.
The Mission of the Atheneum.
“The mission of the TY COBB BAR, or BASEBALL ATHENEUM REPOSITORY, is to promote, honor and preserve the legacies, contributions, and celebrated life & fame of TY COBB, the first player elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, and to reconstitute his reputation to its original state through, including but not limited to, charitable, educational and social means and outlets.”
Testimony From Those Who Knew Him Best.
“I am glad to pay tribute to the greatest of all ball players, and to an esteemed friend. More than any one man in history of baseball, Ty Cobb has combined the arts of all these departments of the game, and used them with a really brilliant mind.”
Walter Johnson, 1927
“He has the most wonderful knack I ever saw of judging a ball hit to his field. The chances that Cobb takes makes him the successful player that he is. One never knows what he is thinking about, but realizes that he is keenly alive to every situation. The slightest break will result in a gain for him.”
John MCGraw, 1916
“Cobb is a great ball player, one of the greatest I ever saw. He was the one man on the Detroit team that we all feared. We are lucky that he did not get on the bases oftener, for he is a dangerous man whenever he starts to advance.”
Honus Wagner, 1910
TY COBB INTERVIEWED AT HIS HUNTING LODGE IN MAGRUDER, GEORGIA
Ty Cobb was interviewed in the one-of-kind film at his hunting lodge in Magruder, Georgia in February 1930. It is believed to be the very first intereview where the audio was captured and included in the film. This is a magnificient piece of Ty Cobb history as it gives us a glimpse of the great Georgia Peach just over a year after his retirement from Major League Basebll.
A special thanks to the awesome folks at the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections who graciously allowed us to use their film.
TY COBB
BASEBALL ATHENEUM REPOSITORY
Wesley Fricks, Founder CEO
Wesley Fricks was born in Atlanta in 1971 and moved to Royston, Georgia in 1974. He grew up on Cobb St., blocks away from the old Cobb home place.
He got involved on the ground floor of the creation of the TY COBB Museum in January 1998. Wesley worked six months with Museum Director and Planning and Development Committee to establish this memorial to baseball’s most celebrated athlete.
On June 1, 2017, Wesley took over as Executive Director of the Ty Cobb Museum and led efforts to relaunch the museum on a national level.
Fricks resigned as Executive Director of the Ty Cobb Museum on January 3rd, 2020. “I am so honored to have been asked to serve Ty Cobb, his awesome family and Community Services Group, Inc. in this capacity,” he stated humbly.
On July 4th, 2020, Fricks founded the Ty Cobb Baseball Antheneum for baseball fans, researcher specialist and the digital fanatics that fall somewhere in the middle. The Antheneum’s digital hall was established as an online learning and research technology tool combined with the new model Research As A Service capabilities for baseball research.
“Welcome to the TY COBB BASEBALL ATHENEUM REPOSITORY!”
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