"The Georgia Peach" made his professional baseball debut on April 26, 1904 as a 17-year-old for the Augusta Tourists of the South Atlantic League. The Ty Cobb Augusta Heritage Foundation erected ...

South Cobb graduate Don Wix is often asked if he ever guarded Pete “Pistol Pete” Maravich when he played basketball for Georgia in the late 1960s and he would say, ...

When the 17-year-old Cobb was offered a tryout by the Augusta Tourists in the South Atlantic League in 1904, his father finally relented and gave his grudging consent for the boy to get it out of ...