page_title: October 1910
section_title: October 9, 1910 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1910 / October 9, 1910 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Ty Cobb, 1913. Glass negative; 5×7 in. or smaller. Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Caption fading. Gift to Library of Congress; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1910:
context_section_description: A coal mine explosion at Starkville, Colorado, killed fifty-two miners.
  Edgar Cayce first attained national fame when he became the cover subject of the New York Times Magazine
  Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers won the Chalmers Award for best batting in baseball's American League, with a batting average of .384944 (based on 196 hits on 509 at bats, rounded to .385), narrowly edging the mark of .384084 for Nap Lajoie of the Cleveland Naps (227 out of 591).  Cobb was allowed to sit out the last two games of the season, while Lajoie got eight hits in the final game.  Sixty-eight years later, baseball historian Pete Palmer discovered a miscalculation in statistics and found that Cobb had actually finished with a .383 average.  Major League Baseball declined, in 1981, to revise the 1910 records.
caption: Cobb .384944
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