to recognizing any changes.") According to Retrosheet, Cobb recorded 1 six-hit game, 13 five-hit games, and 82 four-hit games in his MLB career. Baseball (the sport) does not have official statistics. In C.B.C. Distribution Marketing v. Major League Baseball, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upholding a 2007 judgement by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, ruled that baseball statistics, as being mere facts, are in the public domain are not the property of Major League Baseball Enterprises, Inc. or any other private or public entity. However, because Major League Baseball Enterprises, Inc. does have some official legal rights and responsibilities concerning major league baseball – enforcing copyrights on team logos, making the official rules used by the teams, and so forth – and because Major League Baseball does empower the Elias Sports Bureau with "official provider of MLB statistics" status - confusion sometimes arises and thus a few sources can still describe Cobb's major league batting average as being "officially" .367. "Official" in that sense of the word means merely "from the office" of Major League Baseball, the corporation. Cobb's career totals from Baseball Reference are as follows. Other sources may have slightly different figures. Caught Stealing is not shown comprehensively because the stat was not regularly recorded until 1920. Cobb's career totals published by Major League Baseball Enterprises, Inc. are shown below: See also Somewhere in Georgia (1917 film) 3,000-hit club List of Major League Baseball stolen base records List of Major League Baseball hit records List of Major League Baseball single-game hits leaders List of Major League Baseball player-managers List of Major League Baseball individual streaks List of Major League Baseball record holders Triple Crown Major League Baseball titles leaders John Franklin Cobb House, home of Cobb's grandfather in Cherokee County, North Carolina Ty Cobb Museum 1912 Detroit Tigers strike References Further reading (Nominee for the 2007 CASEY Award. See The Casey Award; Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf.) External links Official site Ty Cobb Museum "Fast Running Got Ty Cobb to his Wedding on Time," Atlanta Georgian, August 7, 1908, Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive, Digital Library of Georgia. "Timeline of Ty Cobb's Life" Ty Cobb: The Georgia Peach historical marker 1886 births 1961 deaths National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Major League Baseball center fielders Detroit Tigers players Philadelphia Athletics players Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state) American League