Editing Ty Cobb (section)

===Cobb as player/manager===
[[File:Ty Cobb sliding2-edit1.jpg|thumb|Cobb slides into third base for a triple against the [[History of the Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]] at [[Griffith Stadium]], August 16, 1924]]
Tigers owner [[Frank Navin]] tapped Cobb to take over for Hughie Jennings as manager for the 1921 season, a deal he signed on his 34th birthday for $32,500 (equivalent to approximately ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|32500|1921|r=0}}}} in today's terms{{inflation-fn|US}}). The signing surprised the baseball world. Although Cobb was a legendary player, he was disliked throughout the baseball community, even by his own teammates.<ref name=ngeorgiacobb>{{cite web |url=http://ngeorgia.com/people/cobbt.html |title=Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb: a North Georgia Notable |publisher=About North Georgia |access-date=February 27, 2007 |archive-date=January 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070126120456/http://ngeorgia.com/people/cobbt.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The closest Cobb came to winning another pennant was in 1924, when the Tigers finished in third place, six games behind the pennant-winning [[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]]. The Tigers had also finished third in 1922, but 16 games behind the Yankees. Cobb blamed his lackluster managerial record (479 wins against 444 losses) on Navin, who was arguably even more frugal than he was, passing up several quality players Cobb wanted to add to the team. In fact, he had saved money by hiring Cobb to both play and manage.

In 1922, Cobb tied a batting record set by [[Willie Keeler|Wee Willie Keeler]], with four five-hit games in a season. This has since been matched by [[Stan Musial]], [[Tony Gwynn]] and [[Ichiro Suzuki]]. On May 10, 1924, Cobb was honored at ceremonies before a game in Washington, D.C., by more than 100 dignitaries and legislators. He received 21 books, one for each year in professional baseball.<ref>{{cite book|last=Salsinger|first=H.G.|title=Ty Cobb|year=2012|publisher=McFarland|location=US|isbn=978-0-7864-6546-0|page=162|url=http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6546-0|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128090001/http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6546-0|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 28, 2013}}</ref>

At the end of 1925, Cobb was again embroiled in a batting title race, this time with one of his teammates and players, [[Harry Heilmann]]. In a doubleheader against the [[St. Louis Browns]] on October 4, 1925, Heilmann got six hits to lead the Tigers to a sweep of the doubleheader and beat Cobb for the batting crown, .393 to .389. Cobb and Browns player-manager [[George Sisler]] each pitched in the final game, Cobb pitching a perfect inning.
====Managerial record====
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;"
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! rowspan="2"|Team !! rowspan="2"|Year !! colspan="5"|Regular season !! colspan="4"|Postseason
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!Games!!Won!!Lost!!Win %!!Finish!! Won !! Lost !! Win % !! Result
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![[1921 Detroit Tigers season|DET]]|| {{mlby|1921}}
||153||{{WinLossPct|71|82}}|| 6th in AL || – || – || – || 
|-
![[1922 Detroit Tigers season|DET]]|| {{mlby|1922}}
||154||{{WinLossPct|79|75}}|| 3rd in AL || – || – || – || 
|-
![[1923 Detroit Tigers season|DET]]|| {{mlby|1923}}
||154||{{WinLossPct|83|71}}|| 2nd in AL || – || – || – || 
|-
![[1924 Detroit Tigers season|DET]]|| {{mlby|1924}}
||154||{{WinLossPct|86|68}}|| 3rd in AL || – || – || – || 
|-
![[1925 Detroit Tigers season|DET]]|| {{mlby|1925}}
||154||{{WinLossPct|81|73}}|| 4th in AL || – || – || – || 
|-
![[1926 Detroit Tigers season|DET]]|| {{mlby|1926}}
||154||{{WinLossPct|79|75}}|| 6th in AL || – || – || – || 
|-
! colspan="2"|Total ||923||{{WinLossPct|479|444}}|| || {{WinLossPct|0|0}} || 
|}