 Welcome to wiki trees Friday bingo. This is our first bingo today. We'll have another one at 6 p.m Eastern Time, but this one I am so excited about we have David Randall with the notables project here and as promised we have an extremely big announcement to make and We're going to get to that in about two seconds But we also have Leah from the Ty Cobb Museum that's going to help us with the special announcement as well So David why don't I just play the video and we'll see what I think Yeah, okay guys if you're ready here we go big announcement time from wiki tree Guess what David Randall is going to start the sports notable project on wiki tree So this means you pick a sport David's got you covered right? And we are actually going to start the sports project today And with baseball right start starting with baseball So let me give you a little bit of background and then explain what this is all about This is going to be set up a little bit different maybe than some of our other projects, but You know, I don't know if people realize this but for the longest time The notables project was run by one person. It was a one-man show that's Scott Fulkerson And he's done an amazing job, but his primary job has been to Basically monitor the the living notables. That's that's really what the notables project spends most of its time doing is Responding to emails opening up project opening up profiles, etc. That's a full-time job for him And about six months ago at the end of the year He asked me to come on to see if we could come up with some ideas on how to Make the notables project more interactive for the community A lot of people sign up for the project and then they're kind of left on their own to just do whatever they want So we are going to start Not only are we going to create a sports project, but we have several other projects in the works That will all be run under under the management of the notables project But we're starting with sports today and sandy. I don't know if you can pull up the the sports page But basically here's how it's going to work. We have a page for the sports project and We have currently We're waiting for it to pop up, but we currently have about 30 sports listed Each sport is going to be assigned a coordinator So if you're interested in becoming active with this project and you have a particular sport you're interested in Let me know and we'll see what we can do But each site will have a a coordinator, which we are going to refer to as our commissioners There's the sports page now that she's just pulled up And sandy if you could scroll down a little bit to the list so that people can see what we're referring to here So here we have links to Right now, I believe there's 30 different sports. They don't all have active links. I think we have four active links right now baseball hockey boxing and motorsports Just because those are ones that we had people interested in but eventually we're going to have links to all of these sports And if you click on one, for example, sandy, if you'll click on baseball Take you know where I was headed. I was headed towards hockey there Yeah, I know Oh, and and our and are actually our biggest announcement is that sandy has agreed to be our hockey commissioner So sandy will be overseeing the hockey project And I am making world changes people to hockey so much Um, but we're starting with baseball today in honor of our special guest from the taiko museum So here's basically our baseball page and This is this is primarily The two pages you've seen the sports page and the baseball page here are basically links pages These are not actual projects themselves as far as activity goes But at the bottom of the page, we will um, well, let me Well, we'll come back because I want to show the pictures here But let's go down all the way to the bottom since I'm on that table right now You'll see a couple links down here. I know hopefully this will grow right now We're starting with baseball legends and again sandy if you'll click that page This is the um challenge that I'm going to be posting on g2g today and basically, um, we've listed I think I have 40 legendary baseball players here And um, we're asking people to simply Work on improving the profiles. It's not specifically a connection project But you will see that there are a number of players who are not connected to the big tree So if we can get them connected that would be great. Many of them are connected But that doesn't mean that their profiles are Where they need to be and the goal of this project is to get in and fix these sports Pages up so that they're really attractive that they read well A lot of them unfortunately seem to be cut and pasted from wiki tree. I mean wikipedia We don't want that we want to have our own language in there and we also Well, it's important to note their sports accomplishments. It's a genealogical site So we want to get the genealogy in there and as you read through the vast majority of these Um profiles you'll see that most of them at this point Focus strictly on their baseball careers And that's not really what wiki tree is supposed to be all about it's it's like as I said It's a genealogy site So if we can get in and start looking for census records and vital statistics and those kinds of things and get those in as well um, some of them have a lot of the information, but it's kind of um Uh Sentence fragments, I guess you call it. Um, not not so much a narrative So that's another thing that we want to try to do is get it Get these profiles readable But we've we're leaving it very open-ended when you click on a on a player you go to their Their profile and we leave it up to you to see what kind of work needs to be done If you're into connecting that's great. You can see right here We've got two roger maras and bob gibson who are not connected. You'll see all the way to the right there It says unconnected if the box is white and are blank that means that um, they're already connected. Um So there you see god drysdale and frank robinson are both connected, uh, but they don't have um I'm pretty certain from my recollection don drysdale was um A pretty um Underdeveloped profile And you'd be surprised some of the greatest names have really Limited profiles. So there's a lot of work to be done. Um, and we're gonna do that We're gonna spread that to each of the the sports. We're starting with baseball. Sandy's gonna get hockey up We have somebody working on football um If there's a sport that, uh You know, somebody wants to take a lead leadership role in let us know and we can get that going We'll pretty much let the members decide what sports we Focus on first and um, it's going to be based on public interest, but eventually we'll get all of the sports up there Um, so this will be a site. This is not a challenge. This is an actual project So that means this is going to be up here permanently So at any time if you get a whim that you want to you know, work on a particular sport Uh, you head on over here and be up here We're ready for you to go and again if you want to do, um, if you want to do just a mini project We have people that want to do a particular team Um, even a team for a particular year We've got people doing hollow fame. We've got people doing or have an expressed interest in doing hollow fame We've got people who have expressed interest in um You know doing doing larger projects where we where we cover an entire sport And that's fine too. So whatever members are interested. That's where we're going to take this project And this is not ever going to be complete just so everybody knows There is not a completion date. So don't feel like you got to get the whole team or the whole Round of baseball. Uh, let me let me just take hockey for a second. It's global So, you know, it's not just us centric. This is global that we're talking about and this is why I said david Are you ready for the next 10 years because this is a huge project Is globally and we're going to need our global genealogists and our global people to come in and help With it. So even though I might be taking a lead on the hockey I can't do it all myself and the same for the other ones we we need help You don't have to necessarily have an interest in the sport if you do it helps But if you just like a certain player, maybe you grew up watching them on your tv Maybe your dad or your brother's liked a certain baseball player and you thought well, let me go ahead and improve them So it's that type of thing if this isn't a competition. This isn't a thon this You know david's gonna put a monthly idea You know monthly challenges just to give you an idea that hey, we need help with this area But you can work anywhere everywhere with every sport pick five pick 20 You know pick one pick a team pick a player start start there And i'm glad that you mentioned also that wiki tree is also about including more than just their sports because we're going to bring in the ty cop museum in just a moment and We know that ty cop is one of the best buddy spell players ever But we don't know much about him off the field off baseball diamonds So we're going to talk about that as well to help understand how to complete a profile for sports notable Okay, we will be working our our project coordinators will be working with people to Um, you know for those that are newer and maybe haven't worked on a lot of notable profiles To talk about what we actually Are looking for we don't want to be just another wikipedia. Um, we are not just an encyclopedia We are a genealogy site. So when people come and click on ty cop They want to hear about his family. They want to hear about his childhood. They want to hear what happened Yeah, they can go anywhere to find out who top cop who ty cop the baseball player was So, um, you know, that's important We want to show everything and i want to mention real quick that david is going to um Exit and hang out in the chat david you have so many questions already Okay, i don't have my cat open right at the moment Yeah, he's gonna hang out Is now we can bring in lia from the ty cop and i can see the very first one Talking about transfer. There's not really a transfer. I think it's probably more a category Thing but i'll let you answer that And Congratulations. This is a really really big deal guys and david Let me just say one one one quick thing Unfortunately as soon as this um session is over. I have to head to a doctor's appointment So I will not be opening this project I'm immediately But I will have it up today by the end of the day when I get home. I will Open up all the links and I'll post a g2g post announcing Um, announcing it but um, yeah, unfortunately the schedule got a little bit Jammed up today, so it'll be a little delayed, but it will be up today And there's the link just keep it keep it handy and check back before you go to sleep tonight for that And if you have an interest in knowledge really If you do have interest and the knowledge in a particular sport that's listed maybe not listed reach out to david And he can let you know What if you have a sport that's not listed we can list it so I listed as many I listed 30 sports That's what I could come up with but i'm sure there's more that um, you know, somebody's interested. Don't be Feel that you're limited just to what we have up there Okay, well, thanks david. Thanks for the big announcement. This is like our very first bingo big out wiki tree announcement Thanks for bringing it and I will tell everybody You don't want to miss bingo because I already know that david's coming back twice Next month News if you thought this was big wait till you hear what's going on. Okay. Thanks david. I appreciate it Okay Hold on there's a lot of them here, but yeah Okay, guys, and then let me introduce our very very special guest. I am so excited to introduce liya From the tycop museum. So welcome to wiki tree liya. Thank you so much for joining us Now explain the bats behind you Well, the bats behind us are uh a part of the museum. It is a display, but it's also Uh an opportunity for you to have uh have your name In the museum from now on So people can the the bats are 100 events throughout ty's life and its playing career And uh, they're available for sponsorship So uh people have bought them uh in honor of someone in memory of someone Or you know, just as a Just as a baseball fan Passing through and and wanted to be part of the museum and this is a good way To do that. So if someone wanted to purchase one, I have the list available of uh bats and they would pick one and The purchaser receives a bat As well as one going into the museum So anyone could reach out to to me here at the museum to get more information on that And I have dropped the link to the museum Page and liya was telling me that there is a slight technical difficulty with the page that their IT people are definitely looking at it And checking it out, but I just wanted to show you a little bit up close So this is kind of up close with the bats and you can kind of see here that they're engraved With something that is related to ty's career Right, is that I get that right? Right is that some of them are just Other life events or maybe awards that he received Some of them were even after his death. He he received an honor So this is um pretty interesting. Now, I will tell you guys that I have been there I actually for the first time and I don't know why this was my first time because I Have been to Royston, Georgia where the tycott museum is it's in northeast Atlanta in we were talking you said about 85 miles from right Atlanta Just right around the corner from spartenberg not um, south carolina not far So we are talking by the way, you know me we are talking about appalachia as well This is in the north georgia part of appalachia very cool museum and I think what I love Best besides I really do love your gift shop. I'm not gonna lie I can sit in the gift shop for a while is the movie as well. You have a movie about his life And it's just one of those museums that you go to and to actually See a ball with his handwriting to see a glove You know from the baseball player and tycott is one of the best baseball players that you could ever ever know about And we're going to talk about this with bingo the second bingo card a little bit But if for anybody who knows being uh baseball And for those of you that only know a little bit about baseball, I'm positive everybody's heard babe ruth At almost everybody here's a babe Did you know that tycott got more votes to get into the baseball hall of fame? Then babe ruth same year or two. They were both in the same year So that tells you a little bit not only about ty's career His work ethic for baseball, but also how much that people liked him and respected him for himself but also for his baseball career So it's really really exciting and again, I want to thank you for joining us because This uh sports notable and wiki tree is large and we knew we wanted to start with baseball And being a georgia girl who else am I gonna start with but ty And for those that don't know ty is also known as the georgia peach So let's go ahead and bring up your bingo cards everybody. We are going to talk about that for Uh, I'll talk a little bit for just a minute. Excuse me before bring up your bingo card Lots of comments. You guys are are like Lots and lots and lots of comments. So this is interestingly as a non-american Babe ruth is probably the only single name I know Well, now you got two names ty beat him in boats for the hall of fame So that's pretty cool. Um, and I do want to mention too That a lot of you have heard of hall of fame. David even was talking about hall of fame So you pick a sport. There's a hall of fame for it and chances are there's a Hall of Fame for it locally Um Countrywide and international So we know that the baseball hall of fame is in cooper's zone but did you know that a lot of the Important figures in baseball also have their own museums such as ty cop and we were talking Uh, I I guess it's been about three weeks now that shoeless joe jacks around the corner has has one and there's another one right Near you That's right. And I don't know if everybody's know this but when you go traveling or if you're visiting or you You know just driving by Look and see if you're into baseball if you're into sports look and see because these Museums these smaller ones are gyms. They are really really special It you know, it's not like going to the larger museums you might think of as Your main towns or the smithsonian or something like that These are ones where you can really get up close and intimate with the player And like lia ask many questions and get answers if you're curious or anything's going on Okay, let's bring up the first bingo card everybody ready and then um The second bingo card full of facts And we're also going to talk a little bit about ty behind the scenes what he also did besides baseball So if you're ready for bingo, let me make sure I got my first one up bingo one and Full screen, okay This is how you play bingo for those of you that are new or refresher for those of you that Are coming back to our bingo game to get bingo you use your mouse you click on it So there's a picture of a baseball on this particular one go ahead in the middle of your screen Go ahead and click on that now. That's the free space And what you want to do is when I call them the word out you're going to click on it The first person who gets either diagonal vertical horizontal All the space is filled out Has to be the first person to type bingo in the chat and make sure I hear it as well because you know sometimes I get talking But the first person who actually wins bingo And types it in the chat is the person who wins the prize today for our first bingo card If you have won In the past six months, you cannot win again if you've got a question about that Let me know and I can look at it. Okay. Everybody ready the Let's go and we we started off with just some General baseball kind of terms because I knew that we would have a global presence here And as we've seen Babe Ruth is probably the the name that most people know globally easily so Player is pretty easy to understand player is who the person playing the game Many different types of positions they can play. What positions did ty play? in our field And he played some shortstop But the bulk was center field And I will also mention to um, steven Glad to see you made it in do not close. If somebody says bingo do not close your card yet because sometimes People that when bingo have either won before they like playing around or they will say Keep playing because they would like to give their prize away. Okay. Oh short stops a tough tough one too Visitor so the visitor is is kind of different than what most people are thinking It's not somebody coming to your house saying hey here. I am knocking on the door visitor is the other team So you have a home team and a visitor team outfield And now feel really truly is what it is if you can picture the baseball diamond It's the field that's way out there And I love seeing the fly balls go and they're running to the into that field to catch it I was told leah that we went to a minor league Game last night and we're actually going back tomorrow, but um, I forget to tell you that we saw grand slam Last night, which was kind of cool. Let me put that in. Okay, for those of you that came late Do you need your bingo card? Did you get it? We had player visitor outfield Okay, moving on guys team They're called a team How many baseball players are on a team? Okay, I might as we're around the corner telling me Nine Nine on the field Okay, I'm mit In tycom museum has that's his mit that you have in the museum, right? How did you get some of the items from the museum? Most of the items in the museum came from his family members and their private collection Some came from some other individuals And we still acquire things even to this day From from fans that maybe have acquired items over the years and and They don't have family members to pass them down to and they just feel like That they belong in the museum so that Other people are able to view them when they visit here That's got to be an awesome surprise when A fan that would be me and I wear in my baseball jersey today. That would be me. I'm in the stands. I'm cheering I might cheer sometimes. I won't say I boo I will tell you too that um, I originally grew up watching the Baltimore Orioles That's they get where I was um from up in Maryland and if the other team um You know got a got a home run and the ball came into the stands. Uh, you threw it back You threw it back on the field So that's kind of what I think of of jeer. Oh, here's a good question. This is a very good question Is there a difference between a baseball mitt and a baseball glove? I I would say they're about the same thing. I think it's just how people describe them It may have been the construction of them. I think the mitt may have had bigger Bigger places to put your fingers um But it it's probably just the construction of them and how they've changed over the years So and ball the baseball White ball red stitching, you know, I don't uh, I I know that there have been baseballs too where either the color came off Or they're not a color red stitching That's kind of more old-time, but all the ones recently in modern times. I think all have red stitching to them as well But they're got the main difference in the mitts um Is gloves the fingers so Yep, what kind of wood is used for baseball bats? great question And you know a lot of times though now they're using they're not using wood Are they or there's wood still required? I think the majors, but I don't know if they can in the minor leagues, but If college can use non wood in the little leagues can use non Wood as well And I agree. I mean that what we call them catchers mitts as well. Um, I think probably outfielders glove I can't remember. I I grew up on baseball. There we go. I grew up on baseball because um, my two brothers played Uh baseball since I think they were two years old I mean they loved baseball mom would always drag me along with to practice and everything so baseball Was always an event for us. It was three times a week that you went in baseball seasons long Baseball and I don't know if you guys ever go to a major league baseball So in some minor leagues too, I know that a lot of times During the weekend games that are dated games. They will let you run the bases with your kids Hit I I did that with my son when he's younger in Atlanta. He's hot I don't know how they stand out there in that heat. It is hot Okay dugout dugout is where they sit When they're waiting to either go back on the field or getting ready to go up to bat and popcorn I will say cracker jacks if you've been to a baseball game and haven't had cracker jacks You got to go back to baseball game and have cracker jacks because that's just part of it and popcorn to me They have plain popcorn or butter popcorn like the movie theaters, but cracker jacks I'll let you all know that mic is in the uh chat So if you have the the general questions that I do not know like carol wanted to know when did they switch to aluminum? Mike can probably answer that for you I think little league in college do aluminum, but the majors still do the wood Okay safe. So safe is when a player has to go and touch the white bag on the diamond And if they touch the place And the umpires is safe That means they are good to go and they are not out. They can stay on the field and continue play Okay, so We had a QD and bat and we talked a lot about bats already. So let me just let me just um Get my expert on the other side of my screen here. So major leagues or wood Minor leagues or wood college has the ability to use Um aluminum and your little leagues can use either as well Okay, so now david you're gonna have to let me know the cracker jack prizes are not nearly as exciting as when I was a kid I remember the cracker jack used to have a prize and also a little piece of paper or something like that I'm waiting for anybody that might have this is great. Um, there's my partner in crime anyone Hey batter batter batter batter That is a common thing that we do and that would be what I consider a year Okay, we have we have a couple bingos leo, but they say keep playing. So that's what I'm pausing here The chat is like leah's on her phone. So she's not seeing the chat, but the chat is like y'all are very chatty today Okay, and then um, you know the cracker jacks was uh, was a big conversation too. Okay, so carol's like I or mine I used a wood bat when I played little league Um, and I can tell you that when you hit with a wood bat You it's a totally different sound And when you hit with the aluminum you kind of get that think think going on Okay So everybody's still good anybody close to getting bingo Clap that's pretty easy You you clap when your team does well We were clapping a lot last night. So in the fourth inning we had a walk a steel and a grand slam so So it was pretty cool So we have um Do we have any softball players in here in the chat too? I didn't think of that sat. Okay. First, that's a base Everybody I got a few people that are close. So first base and that's what you when you hit at bat. That's the first place you go to lose You lost the game Do we have a bingo? Ah, Amy There we go. So we got a bingo Can congratulations. Amy. Wow. We've got a lot of bingos. Okay. So guys, let me just double check this Let me bring Leah back up on this screen. Let's just double check this real quick. Okay. So one Steve and you missed out You missed out by like 10 seconds. Um Amy we had three or four bingos here. So this is pretty cool Okay, so Amy what you're gonna do or your bingo is you are going to email I went and she's going to let you know How to claim your wiki tree price and just because I have it handy keep in mind the bingo mug is the number one that seller That we have here. So email anyone and she will get you all hooked up for that Okay, let's talk about tie. Let's talk a little bit about him. So We're gonna bring up the second bingo card in a few moments that has some of his stats But who was he as a person? Well, he was born in the late 1800s in 1886 And he was actually not born here in Royston where the museum is but it was just Just over the next county line But they moved here when he was a young child This is where he learned to play baseball playing on a little town team And then this is also where he left from to play professionally Both in detroit and then his last two years in philadelphia with what was then the philadelphia athletics And of course, we know now they are in california But you know his his records on the field and as a baseball player are unparalleled But he had some great accomplishments off the field too that That are are still impacting people in this community In this state and then around the country as well He started an education foundation. Not many people know that. No, I didn't that started in in 1953 Ty did not have the opportunity to go to college His father was the superintendent of schools here in this county And he very much wanted his son to go to college wanted him to become a doctor or a lawyer, but he said Dad, I really want to play you professional baseball and and and much to his dad's disappointment He finally did relent and agree to let his son Go and pursue this and he in fact told him go and get it out of your system And and then you know, he felt like he would eventually come back and maybe choose one of those careers But anyway, ty wanted to um have An opportunity or wanted each student that wanted to pursue college He wanted them to have the opportunity to go Regardless of their financial status And so that started in 1953 as I mentioned We don't even know the exact amount that ty gave to start that foundation But it was a significant amount of his estate and He you know the his estate continued to feed that But to date it has given Very very close to 20 million dollars in scholarship funds. Oh my gosh The Georgia students that that demonstrated a financial need So we and we have a display in the museum that pays tribute to that education foundation It lists a lot of names of the the scholarship recipients as well as places that they went to college Then the second greatest thing that that he did off the field was The ty cob hospital He built that One of his teammates when he was on his first small baseball team the Royston Reds Became a physician and they remain close friends throughout their lives So they got together and came up with plans for a hospital here And it was a little 24 bed hospital It was located just across the street from the museum, but it it came Became what was known as the ty cob health care system Many other entities were born from that little 24 bed hospital and just about everything that Um That came from the hospital is still in existence today We have assisted living and some senior living apartments and medical equipment business and Dialysis Just various various things and various physicians offices That also came about as a result of the the ty cob health care system and started You know grew from that little 24 bed hospital So like he really wanted to also give back to his his home town Right in his community. So the the dr. Brown that I mentioned that was his teammate His home was actually one of the places that was used as a hospital before the actual hospital was built So he he's like we have a need I have money Right, right. I think this might be a good time. We'll we'll talk about it again But we might as well talk about it now. I think this would be a good time to let everybody know that on baseball players back then You know didn't make a whole lot of money We're getting stats that we'll bring up on the second baseball card and I've already dropped the link for the second baseball card in the chat but You know, I've read baseball books and I've read hockey and football books About you know the olden times, I guess I should say and a lot of these these players When they weren't playing they had to go get a job because it wasn't a lot of money that they made right and Ty played for detroit You know pretty much most of his career You gave a stat right before we came online that I thought was really interesting. So he was a very wealthy gentleman It says he played in detroit He invested in general motors at the time right Right and and in the early days of coca-cola So those investments allowed him to become The first millionaire in baseball, but it didn't have anything to do with his baseball salary And just for instance when when he went to detroit They purchased his contract for seven hundred and fifty dollars So and we and we're just a few days away from the first year player draft In major league baseball it begins on sunday And so if if you look by comparison the The first player that's picked will be an instant millionaire It could you imagine and and ty, you know, we're talking about one of the Greatest baseball he has records that will never be be never be broken Won't be and the first person who's picked You know this weekend Will be a millionaire and completely Probably multi, but we'll go on the low side Yes And here's ty it it just flows my mind that the dedication of the sports players Generations ago they were in it not for the money. That's right But for the love of a game. Yeah, and and that's a good time. I think I have a really um A good quote from him as well that um A couple of them the crowd makes a ball game I love that because as a fan you you want to know That they hear us that that were there for them as well All right, but here's the quote So the great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for money And that's it not for the love of it the excitement of it or the thrill of it Ty Cobb's been um Gone for quite many years. So this is not a recent quote And Is it hits home? To this day it really does right Okay, so if you guys have any questions about baseball about the museum about ty let us know But we're going to also play the second bingo game that has A tremendous amount of stats. So I'm going to start the bingo game now. I'm going to drop the card Link one more time Because this is where we're going to get into ty's baseball career. So let me go ahead and switch over to the second card here Let me see yep second card here again if you're joining late or just a refresher to get bingo You need to get all in a row diagonally horizontally vertically You'll see ty's pitcher in the free space go ahead and click that with your mouse now And that's pretty much all you have to do if you do click a space Incorrectly just go ahead and re click it and or remove that little Blatch that are there and um, I love this Lots of numbers and it does remind me. I was sitting at the at the baseball game last night and I was sitting there with my husband We were talking and looking up at the screen At the stats and we'd already looked at ty's stats and it Ty's stats. I don't Ever think they'll be be broken. But um, it was interesting looking at it and realizing. Wow baseball is a lot of math And unfortunately my least favorite math statistics As we go through Okay, guys So the first person who gets the wins bingo is who gets the horizontal virkly or diagonally all the way across And also says bingo in the chat For those of you that are playing never ever shut down your card until we confirm the person that called bingo does In fact want to play bingo Okay, I have my cheat sheet too, but I bet you lia you have this stuff memorized But I have my cheat sheet too because this is there's a lot of numbers that we're going to go through Some of you baseball fans you can probably guess what they are So early investor we did talk about that a very early investor in coca-cola in general motors And can you imagine getting in on the ground floor when you know cars were becoming a bigger Event that highways and interstates were being built needed those cars. So he got in good time in coca-cola. Well, you know Enough said So this is really how he made his money he he was extremely rich at the time of his death Okay, the greatest man he knew I thought this was interesting because I have been to the museum and very Promotely you have pictures of his parents almost immediately as soon as you come in You've got all this wall of bats left and then to the right you have the pictures of parents and His dad he considered his dad the greatest man he knew Right Yes, he wanted to please him in every way and he did lose his father To a very unfortunate accident Accidental death when when he was 18 he just had just started his career in Detroit and and You know, I really feel like that's what fueled a lot of his aggression on the field I mean he put it all on the field And he he really wanted to please his father and his father never got to see him play professionally so Yeah, that That that single event I think impacted his life Probably more than any other It would make sense And read his his bio as well. I will Give you that link too. We're going to show you his wiki tree bio, but it does have information about that as well so RBI's that's called runs batted in and let me get my cheat sheet. So He had One thousand nine hundred and sixty one Runs batted in in his career And for those of the view that might not know baseball if there are players out on the field and ties up at bat and he hits And he's able to at least get a base That would forward the players on the field to home once they pass home Ty gets credit for a run batted in 23 consecutive seasons now this one was a stat. Let's see. Let me look at my cheat sheet here guys So he this is this is just this is we talked about this before we started. This is just a crazy stat So, um, he batted at least 300 At least most time it was over that in 23 consecutive seasons Um, there's a there's a comment. I think this was the what the comment that I was making that if Um, you anybody knows baseball, you know cal ripkin from the orioles got the iron man award That will probably never be broken as much as this record. I I don't see it ever broken. Do you lia? I don't That or his batting average Yeah, and and the thing that we were kind of talking about too with this is that If you if you look at a baseball game, you can go anywhere and pick up stats. We're talking most people are batting about point two You know in the twos of seven, you know, 30 to seven something like that. Maybe seven would be high point. So It's not going to be broken. I don't I don't see it and this is another reason that makes him or really We're almost a hundred years past the time that he was in a game And I think not to spoil it. That's one of your bingo squares is If he last game so We're almost a hundred years past that and and his average still stands So so his last game was september 11 19 28 And I it's just it's just never going to be broken. It's just as simple It's hard to fathom now for me because you sit there and you realize That he didn't have all the technology of the shoes and the you know, the gloves and the bats and the trainers and things like that Back then they trained themselves I I read a story about ty that during the winter he would go hunting and in his boots He would put weights because he considered that training. Yeah, keep his legs in shape during the winter And just as a side note, we have As a display in the museum The cleat that he wore in that last game that he played Uh, and it was bronze for preservation purposes. Um, but we do have that in a display case here in the museum And I'll agree with David. This is kind of cool. So we're talking almost a hundred years and he you know, he's still a household name Right, right We're still talking about him and it makes me kind of smile from when we talked about a few moments ago The greatest man he knew was his dad So it kind of makes me smile because somehow I think his dad Is proud, you know, that's what he wanted to do Yeah Well, and I also tell people that visit the museum the the silver lining Is that even though ty did not become a doctor or a lawyer like his father wanted him to His son ty jr became a doctor and then he had a grandson in california. That's an attorney So he has those things in his lineage That's so cool. I did not know that that's really cool Okay, so he stole home 54 times I I tend not to see people seal home so much anymore. Well, I There it happened just a couple of weeks ago in major league baseball, but they said previously it hadn't happened since 2016 Wow, so you think about you think about that and ty did it 54 times He actually stole home 55 times but one time was in post season play It was 54 times in a regular season play Does so how many so he has two sons living or how many children? None of his children are living anymore. He had a total of five children They are all deceased, but he has one daughter-in-law that is still alive She was married to his youngest son james. She lives in california And so we still hear from her regularly. Oh, that's great And we talked about this earlier. This was for the hall of fame nomination and Uh, everybody's card is kind of wonky. I wonder why um for the hall of fame He received more votes than babe roof for his entry in And also in the museum we have a trophy Where in 1941 ty and babe roof played a charity golf tournament and ty beat babe And so we we have that trophy here. Oh, that's funny Are they they knew each other? They They're their careers overlapped now ty was older than than babe And so that was another reason why the trophy is so funny because Babe said well ty's a lot older than me. I'm sure that I will win and I'm sure that I will beat him But it actually went the opposite direction That's funny And let's see ty's one of the first players that hit over 400 in three seasons. I just can't even imagine hitting 400 I think um, that was probably a question coming up, but we'll see Royston george. So this is where the museum is located and this is where ty considers his home town As lia mentioned he was actually born in narrows george. It's just over the line a bit a bit a little bit, but um He Royston george is a neat little town and the town nearby which is maybe A mile or two from from the museum has a small university private university as well The reason why I know Royston is because there's also a state park and as many if you know me You know that we go camping a lot, but also if you know me, you know that my my boy's my son and and um husband love to go golf And the state park also has a 3d archery. So we're constantly there and for the first time my father-in-law went camping with us last year and he Pretty much said we are going to this museum. I want to see it and we did so that's kind of how we have there. Okay I think I understand what everybody's um Having issues with I try to call the the name and also the stack and thank you irish john For helping me out and you're right. I have the cheat sheet So Royston georgia is where the museum is and also where he considered home as well Okay, let me keep going um pleat Spikes and lia. I'm going to have you explain this to me. So I don't get it wrong Why is he known for this? well, it it was widely believed that he would intentionally Spike players with his cleats and that he would actually sharpen them But that actually was was just one of the One of the myths uh surrounding ty. Yes, he was very aggressive on the base path, but You know even one of the most famous Photographs that was taken of ty is of him sliding in And and there's even a statue here in front of our local library that used to be at the brave stadium with that very pose and And so the the um The guy that was on base As ty was coming around even said, you know, it was my fault. I was in the way So anyway And his bat boy also refuted Um That uh myth that had been circulated that he sharpened his spikes. He said no that that did not happen so That's why the the cleats and the spikes and and a lot of people have even said, you know, ty would come in spikes high um So that that's why but ty also had a lot of scars on his legs where he also Came in contact with others other people spikes. That's what I was going to say. This isn't just an exclusive ty cop Right, right exactly And in fact, he he even wrote to the the commissioner to see if there was a way that they could dull the spikes in order to um To avoid injuries that were occurring because of them But I think just because his he was an aggressive player. Also, he was a really good player They point out. Hey, he's cheating or hey, he's doing this right right. That wasn't the case right Okay, the home runs so you should see the word home runs on your finger card and let me look at my cheat sheet Oh 118 home runs in his career And that seems low um If you compare it to today Um, and that was primarily because he played in what was known as the dead ball era So if he were playing with the baseball that they play with today Uh, that number would be significantly higher I think so. I think it was Absolutely Okay, career stolen bases. So he has 800 in 92 career stolen bases Let me give everybody a chance to catch up one on bingo That is a lot. I mean I always get nervous when I see it done I only like last night I saw it once it ended up working out But that always makes me nervous and I think it's it's not only a talent. It's a skill Yes Okay, or is everybody catching up then on On the bingo Made some confusion. This is called um bingo trivia. So What I call out I try to call out the trivia the answer the question and answer kind of as we go through In my apologies joku This is a new feature of our bingo Program that we use and it should usually if show what's on the screen should be on your card, but I guess what it's doing is showing the stat that's kind of behind what's on the screen So let me give you a recap. It's just real quick for everybody Royston georgia was called that's a tight place that thai considers his hometown cleat spikes Was called that was a controversy that thai was wrapped up in And september 11th 1928 That was the last game he played the date of the last game he played and 54 times he stole home and 892 career stolen bases and For 23 consecutive seasons He has at least point 300 in 23 seasons I'm missing I think one more he had 118 home runs I think this is the last one to catch everybody up He had 1,961 runs batted in which is called rbi's Okay, that should catch everybody up and let's go ahead and continue his career batting average This is just this is just crazy. This is unheard of So his career batting average was point 367 Right and as we've previously mentioned, we're almost a hundred years past his playing days and That stat has not even been close to being touched Um show uh the grayest man. He knew that's also correct. Sorry that one's right Um, so when we're talking about point 367, just to give you guys an idea I want to say last night at the braves minor league team The stripers that are in georgia. Uh, I want to say one of the highest was point 237 Or 275 was the highest but the average excuse me was around 0.23 something and um Tied at 0.367 The other thing that that my husband was explaining to that's kind of if you're into statistics and math which which he likes So if you're at bat 10 times, you've got to hit it, you know A three to four times To get this type of average so So yes, if you see three point three six seven go ahead and click that on your card Okay, let's keep going So he batted point four three seasons for in three different seasons um So for you guys on your card, you'll see point 400 point 400 With the number three in x and it looks like we have a bingo. So let's just double check That as well. So just to let you know, I think point 400 I you're not gonna You're not going to really see this around as much either I think everybody has it. Sorry guys for the frustration It looks like we have a bingo, but I'm gonna go through a couple more stats real quick So, um, Lamela hold on one second and I'll tell you how to claim your prize So let's finish out some of the the questions. So he did play for the Detroit Tigers for most of his career, right? Right And then we talked about he was an early investor in coca-cola and um, let's see It more votes than Babe Ruth in the Hall of Fame Is career at bats So it went to bat 11,429 times this man loved baseball. It was Part of his DNA. He he really loved baseball, right? um Oh, and you mentioned that he was a pitcher. He was he pitched in three games You don't see that today. You would not switch around like that. You would not see a pitcher um Our center field the pitcher and then we talked about money as well So in 1928 the last year that he played He was with the at the time called Philly athletes Athletics, excuse me, and it was $35,000 in 1928, which was a really good amount So it is kind of interesting and I want to say he started his rookie career in 1905 was something like 1200 a year Right. I mean it and then the way he ended up investing and became You know a millionaire multi-millionaire is pretty cool. Okay, um Let me show our winner what you're going to do to take your prize is email a one at wiki tree dot com tell her that you Won the bingo at the tie cop bingo and she will get you the information for The store and what to look at to buy there's a whole bunch of different things They're wiki tree branded items and they're really cool and they're really awesome and I think um Anyone was saying that they're now the 15 year anniversary t-shirts coming up as well. Okay, so What do most people? Um ask you when they come to your museum Well, um, you know, we do have some people that Don't know a lot about Ty They are just baseball fans. So, you know, we get asked a variety of things um and Most of them are You know, what was he from here? Did he grow up here? You know why? And then Most people don't know, you know about the the philanthropy that he did through the hospital the education foundation We do have some people that come in and and maybe they've only seen the movie which was based on a book that was Was Very much incorrect and um So they have that idea that he was, you know, just a mean horrible guy And then, you know, we we feel like the museum speaks for itself So they go through the museum and when they circle back around Their minds have been totally changed. They said wow, you know, we had no idea Of the good things and the great things that he did for for his community and how he gave back So, um, you know, we we get asked just a variety of things I think that's something important to point out to that This is something David mentioned at the beginning and I know that a lot of my guests mentioned that come on to this bingo And I know that I mentioned it as well That we're we're about accuracy So if you want to create a biography of somebody for wiki tree Probably going to a hollywood movie would be the last place So keep that in mind because I I do know that movie and I remember when it came out I knew a little bit about um psychob, but it was like no, this is still kind of kind of wrong I want to point out this is I dropped a link. This is his wiki tree page It's wonderfully done. I would like to say I had had a lot of help with it But I did and I only added some pictures and this is one of the pictures that I did add this is um Doom is mausoleum is actually in Royston not too far from the museum kind of maybe a mile Yeah, and I have a burning question that I have been Wondering about for years and I know you can answer it There every time I go to Royston there is always a really nice reef. It's seasonal if it's around Christmas There you know, there would be something seasonal there And it's always very well kept up with that. Is that the museum doing that? well a lot of times if no one else does it the museum does but um the The city actually, you know does the the maintenance As far as like mowing and and that type of thing, but as far as the flowers There's a couple of his granddaughters that take turns getting flowers like around his around christmas time around his The anniversary of his death which will be coming up in the next week or so and So but that particular one that's in the picture that you have there Actually, one of our former employees of the museum did that one. Oh, that's really nice again The other thing that I want to mention to people is I you know As a genealogist and a lot of us belong to the Symmetra project on wiki tree So you guys won't think too weird of me going on vacation and stopping by a cemetery now and then But we do we you can drive right up to here. So, you know, I'll do it Not not a really big walk or anything. It is a beautiful cemetery one section of it is just so old And it's just really nice just to walk through near train tracks. It's just really a nice cemetery But we do we when we go to Royston vacation we drive through and we look at it in the thing that really Hits me hard at my heart Are people leaving baseballs with notes on them? Right? And those are just random people Like me that would go there and leave this memorabilia just something there as a thank you Is that's what's going on? well, also We collect those things and bring them back to the museum the things that are left there so So that way they're preserved and they're not out in the weather But there's been back notes Just all kinds of things that have been left there at the great site And you can see sort of in this picture if you go to the website you can Obviously see it clearer. But if you look at the bottom of the brown doors to the left and right There are two little round or two little dots those are baseballs and the one On the left this I think this picture must be about two years old at least But the one on the left gave such great detail about what Ty Cobb meant to the person that left that baseball that Really amazed and touched by it that even still we're talking about How this Individual named cob die cob from this area in georgia, not atlanta, you know, we're nowhere near atlanta We're talking about on the outskirts here northeast georgia This this player meant something right Right And I just want to point out that you will not see this marker in georgia. This is actually in alabama aniston alabama Okay, and we talked about The baseball glove and there's the signature This actually came from a torn museum And you will see it as well as well as the cleat Well, I gotta tell you I I appreciate you coming on I gave lee a very little notice I think about three weeks ago asked her to come on because we had an inkling that we were going to announce This big project with wiki tree And we knew we were starting with baseball and like I said being from georgia Ty Cobb is just the only one in my mind that we could do we have a lot of really good Famous baseball players in georgia from our days We do but um, we wanted to celebrate ty Cobb because I think that your museum just does an excellent job of it As well as seeing the town embraces Statue in front of the library is really awesome Go to his mausoleum at the cemetery and see it And if you are going traveling this summer look up if you're a sports fan Especially look up and see along your way the towns that you may be stopping halfway or town You're stopping at for vacation. Maybe there's nearby town. These smaller museums. They are a gem They are just really a treasure to see And you get to meet people like lia who has this information and you can talk back and forth And maybe find out something that you didn't know about the particular sports person or in the event You know I always like to tell people COVID's over Let's get out and about and let's come back and support these types of organizations that are there and Even if you don't like a particular sport you maze as a genealogist You'll still find something to be amazed at and I will tell you at this particular museum If you walk into it and you're not amazed by that robots We is just showing you probably maybe an eighth of what That's so hard it is an impressive display and then as soon as you turn to your right you're going to see ties parents right there and Yeah, I think you've done a great job with museum. I can't thank you enough for joining us for bingo at wiki tree Helping us launch our big sports notable, right? And if you find yourself near hoist in georgia, we're open Monday through friday nine to three and on saturdays from ten to two were closed on sunday You can give us a call if you have any questions And hopefully within the next day or two our website will be fully functioning again And and our store is online, you know, if you wanted to order merchandise, so Definitely make plans to stop by if you're in our area Definitely do brison is just a cool little town the nice restaurants that you have there too I I'm I of course I'm addicted to one of the grocery stores lunch buffets Right right there. So it's quaint. I have Never had anybody look at me as an outsider or weird or anything like that. I've always got high. How are you? So it's a very small town that has very big heart in Baseball, so thanks again leah. Thanks everybody. You're very welcome. I appreciate everybody's Patience with that second bingo card, but hopefully you learned a few stats about thai along the way And we will see you later tonight for another bingo And we'll see if we can get we are back again as we get our baseball up and going and have a little bit more Baseball-centric event too. Thanks guys. Everybody. Have a good day