by Kimberly Brown and Isaiah Smith
Cobb’s legend not forgotten here 60 years after his Cornelia funeral
Clifford Kimsey Jr. (left) sits on the porch of his Habersham County home for a chat with baseball legend Ty Cobb. CLIFF KIMSEY III/Submitted
Ty Cobb takes a moment for a picture with Cornelia’s Big Red Apple in 1957 before later signing it. MYRTILE WOOD SMITH/Submitted
Mt. Airy Mayor Gary Morris shows off a bat Ty Cobb gave him along with a painting of Cobb and Habersham County youths (from left) Jimmy Powell, Morris and Sam Tolbert done by Greg Kimsey in 2002. ALAN NESMITH/Staff
Ronnie Parham of Cornelia (left) has a Ty Cobb mural framed and signed by Cobb’s former batboy, Jimmy Lanier (right). PAT PARHAM/Submitted
The thrill of rounding the bases was what pushed Ty Cobb to master the game of baseball.
And after rounding life’s bases, Cobb died on July 17, 1961, at age 74 after a battle with...
