Nearing the end

Ty Cobb, playing out a final season with the 1928 Philadelphia Athletics, makes the last start of his magnificent career 95 years ago today during a 5-1 victory at Chicago’s Comiskey Park.

The 41-year-old Cobb, playing right field for the A’s, picks up a single and double in five at-bats off the White Sox’s Tommy Thomas before leaving after ending the top of the eighth inning with a groundout.

The A’s start five Hall of Famers in that game – Cobb, pitcher Lefty Grove, catcher Mickey Cochrane, left fielder Al Simmons and Jimmie Foxx, normally Philadelphia’s first baseman who is making a rare start at third.

Cobb appears in only nine more games – all off the bench – for the A’s and goes 1-for-9 in those games before retiring after 24 seasons, finishing with a .323 batting average to mark his 23rd straight season of batting at least .316.