 " To date , it seems that no one knows for certain who won that 1910 batting title . Total Baseball , which is now the official major @-@ league record , lists both men at .384 in its seasonal section , but its player register has Lajoie at the same number and Cobb at .383 — so even the various editors of that source do not , or cannot , agree . " Jon Wertheim wrote in Sports Illustrated 100 years after the event , " The statistics for the Detroit players had been crossed out and nullified . Every Detroit player , that is , except one : Ty Cobb . It takes something less than a detective to arrive at the conclusion that at some point Johnson ( or someone in the league office , anyway ) realized the error and decided to conceal it . " 
