Looks awesome ! Count me in <| sep |> So once upon a time , Ty Cobb was being interviewed by a sportswriter for one of the big New York papers . This allegedly happened in about 1960 . When the baseball Hall of Fame opened , Cobb received more votes than anyone else and was one of the first players inducted . He ' d also been pretty vocal after his retirement saying that each generation of new players was worse than his generation . So this young sportswriter asked Cobb what he ' d hit if he was an active player then , in 1960 . And Cobb said he ' d probably hit about . 300 or maybe . 310 . The sportswriter jumped on it if Cobb would hit . 300 , and his lifetime average was . 367 , then clearly the new players were better ! And Cobb glared at him and said sonny , I ' m forty seven years old .