Lou Gehrig “To The Bag At First” /Ty/Tie (Cobb) Notes

A couple of notes, (ditties but no music), about two of the minimum 5 or 6 greatest baseball players ever (cue John Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane”), Lou Gehrig and Ty Cobb.

The 1936 World Series, the first of four consecutive Yankees’ titles, ended when Lou Gehrig “took it to the bag” to wrap a (13-5) game 6 win, vs the New York Giants, and a 6 game W.S. triumph.

In 1937 the 5 game Yankees’ triumph again vs the Giants, ended when Gehrig flipped the ball to Vernon “Lefty” Gomez, the latter a true $$ pitcher, who stepped on first.

I believe that was the peak or at least, last year in which the great Gehrig mightily contributed, as tragedy in the form of a fateful disease, that now bears his name, would soon materialize.

Ty and the tie “captions/captures” what the not so mean, Mr. Cobb called his greatest baseball moment.

Ty (Ty Tyson was a famed Tigers’ broadcaster) and his Tigers were battling the Philadelphia A’s for the 1907 American League Pennant, when in what Cobb called the key game, he hit a game tying T9, 2RHR vs the great and “mucho out there,” pitcher Rube Waddel of the A’s.

Each team scored in the 11th and on they played through 17 innings, when darkness forced the game to end a tie.

The A’s used 4 pitchers, the Tigers just one, “Wild” Bill Donovan, and in the subsequent remaining games, the Tigers held their slim lead and won the first of their 3 straight pennants, all of which were followed by World Series losses.

“Wild” Bill Donovan hurled all 17 innings in that tie game played on September 30, 1907.

He yielded 9 runs, 21 hits, fanned 11 and only walked 3 (certainly not wild in that game and such is probably not the cause of the nickname.)