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Highest lifetime
major-league batting average (.366)
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Most career batting
titles (12)
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Most career steals of
home (54)
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Second in career hits
(4,189 – first in AL and first when retired)
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Second in career runs
scored (2,246 – first in AL and first when retired)
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Third in career steals
(892 – first when retired)
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Stole second, third,
and home after reaching base on 6 separate occasions
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Led the American
League in hits 8 times
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Led the American
League in runs scored 5 times
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Scored 100 runs 11
times in his career
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Reached 1,000 hit
level by the age of 24 -- the youngest of any major league player
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Batted under .320 only
once in his career -- his first season
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Batted over .400 three
times (1911, 1912 & 1922)
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Batted over .320 for
23 straight seasons
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Had two consecutive
game hitting streaks of 35 games or more (35 in 1917 and 40 in
1911), the only player to do so; his two streaks rank 6th and 11th
on the all-time list; (George Sisler had streaks of 41 and 34 games)
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Five hitting streaks
of 20+ games: 40, 35, 25, 21, and 21.
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One of only two people
to hit a home run before his 20th birthday and after his 40th
birthday (the other is Rusty Staub)
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After subtracting home
runs, Cobb drove in more of his teammates for RBI, 1,843, than any
other player.
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Won the prestigious
Triple Crown in 1909
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First player to be
inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
