3 baseball record holders (I've Got a Secret 9/28/55, 1 of 2) 

OMG, Ty Cobb! How cool was that!

Ty Cobb asks to say hello to the panel, then addresses the ladies first. A true gentleman.

Hey Cobb-alright.

Cobb hit almost .370 for a quarter of a century-WOW!!

Cobb-What a treat this was to see.

COBB STARTS FOR ME IN CENTERFIELD ON MY ALL TIME TEAM!LEADS OFF TOO!

Aaahh,the memories.

I loved a comment attributed to him. he was asked long after retirement how he would do against modern pitchers. he said he would bat about300. the reporter expressed surprise that he did not give a higher figure. Cobb replied you have to remember Im 67 years old....classic....

Hilarious that the guests get a carton of Winstons.

COBB,THE GENTLEMAN-SHOOK THE LADIES HANDS FIRST.

After reading "Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty" by Charles Leerhsen, my opinion of Ty Cobb changed quite a bit. The Author did a great job or really investigating some of the myths and events attributed to Ty as being racist and after reading the entire thing you'll gain some sympathy for the man, and while he isn't a saint, he's definitely not the demonised arsehole you see portrayed. I highly recommend it to anyone

I like Kitty's statement at the end, "your the only one I ever heard of". That's really a great compliment she was giving him.

The Peach!Alright!

I remember seeing this show live when I was a kid. Even than when he walked on, I knew who he was. A long time fan of Baseball and still am. I still think Ty was the Greatest Ballplayer ever.

I met Johnny Vander Meer in 1995. Even though I know he was asked 1000's of times about throwing those back to back no-hitters he was super nice with me when I got to talk with him about them.

Wow imagine meeting Ty Cobb ? He was so humble and gracious to everyone ...

Now,Cobb,could really hit.

LOL....Here's a Carton of Winstons. Man...how times have changed.

Fantastic

I wonder if Pete Rose ever saw this clip......he'd be like..."I broke Ty's hitting record but I never got no carton of Winstons"...lol

Ty Cobb. Nuff said

My brother met him two years after this show aired when he was still living in atherton, ca just a short bike ride from our home in Redwood city. My brother was 14 at the time and played on a Babe ruth league team with Jim Fregosi ( who would soon sign his first MLB contract ).

Ty Cobb was more soft spoken than other people

Incredibly cool clip! The episode of Ty Cobb on What's My Line seems to be lost to history. It's great to have this clip!

Read "Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty." You will learn a lot.

THE GEORGIA PEACH!

Ty freaking Cobb!

Cobb comes off as a true Southern Gentleman - has to be one of if not the most misunderstood athletes in the canyon of American Sports. The injustice that has been done to his name over the years is criminal. Thank goodness for the true light that has slowly but surely been brought to his name.

Ty Cobb was legend. One of the most competitive athletes to face opposition in sports. That attitude of playing to win at all times ruffled feathers and they tarnished his reputation for life and beyond.

26 innings in 3 hours and 50 minutes. That's 8 minutes 51 seconds per inning.Not half inning: inning!

Nobody will ever break two no-hitters in a row, carve it in granite.

Cobb also holds records for stealing home plate in a season (8 in 1912), and in a career (54)

Quite a contrast from Tommy Lee Jones' depiction of an aging Cobb...

What we understand to be true of Ty's attidude may not be true. Yes he played hard and to win, but lets not judge a man we don't even know. What I do know is that he was a Great Ballplayer.

"Here, please accept this carton of Winston's from us with our thanks." Lmao

Silvana Pampanini introduced the segment. A legend in Italian cinema. She was a rival of Sophia Loren during the 1940s and 1950s and considered to be as glamorous. Her career in U.S. cinema was hampered by her difficulty in speaking English.

We watched I've Got a Secret regularly and What's My Line when I was growing up in the 1960s born in 1953. I sure remember this panel and Gary Moore well but with this from 1955 they are younger looking than I remember them. This was an interesting episode since I like baseball history.

Ty Cobb! Wow!

Ty Cobb smiling and shaking hands?????

When Cobb was still with the Tigers, there was one instance when the rest of the team sat out a game to protest him getting suspended, so they sent pretty much a whole team of amateur players to take the field once versus the Philadelphia A's. The A's won that game by a landslide.

As a Reds fan, I knew right away who the 2nd guy was. But that first guy...wow. 26 consecutive innings, called on account of nightfall. Crazy!!

Cadore and Joe Oeschger both pitched 26 innings in the same game.

Nice

Really fascinating video! So many interesting things! (& considering I've only heard negative things) about Ty Cobb's personality. The 1st make celebrity contestant was very witty and funny. I never knew that the 26 inning, longest game, was fully completed by one pitcher! The "spiking the 2nd baseman" comment was purely a brilliant ending line by the other male celebrity contestant.

My boss at my part time job would love this episode being that it deals with baseball

That was an awesome clip!!

"He was a mean one"

"spiked a lot of second basemen too" contestants comment at the end; I wonder if he got smacked around for that one.

Batting .420 for a season. Jeebus.. 😳

Amazing, Ty Cobb!

Cobb retired with 90 records. That itself is a record.

He "played batter"? The way they discussed sports back then was weird.

the fellow that pitched 26 innings in the 1920 game is leon cadore, the guy he pitched against him also pitched the whole 26 innings, joe oeschger, who was also alive during this broadcast. at first i thought ty cobb had snubbed bill cullen's hand shake for the "spiking 2nd basemen" crack. but upon 2nd look he was just being a gentlemen and addressing the women first. to this day johnny vander meer is the only pitcher to ever throw two no-hitters back to back.

I did not realize that Ty Cobb had at one time played for the Philadelphia Athletics. Apparently he did during his final two seasons as a player in 1927 and 1928. Also, his lifetime batting average record still stands to this day. Absolutely amazing.

Johnny Vander Meer Two consecutive no-hitters is the greatest pitching feet ever. That makes a perfect game look like child's play. That record will never be beat until they invent mechanical arms for pitchers. Haha

When mr.cobb passed away (1961) he had amassed 13 million$ in total assets mostly GM&Coca cola stock. Mind you this was back in early 60's so in today's dollars about 470 million.

Long-ago baseball writer and official scorer Fred Lieb was covering a game at one of the bookends of Johnny Van der Meer’s two no-hitters. Lieb insisted to his death that a hit against Van der Meer ought to have been ruled an error; had his opinion been accepted, Lieb wrote that Van der Meer would have and should have had three no-hitters in a row. [PS: Ironically, In 1923, Lieb ruled a hit a first at-bat grounder, much to the vexation of the pitcher Howard Ehmke. Ehmke then kept the following twenty-seven men off base. As in his previous game he had pitched a no-hitter, Ehmke would have preceded Van der Meer in the consecutive twin-no-hitter feat. In 1920, Lieb initiated a rule change to allow a game-winning home run with men on base to always be counted as a home run, even if its run was not needed to win the game. To that point, a batter was only credited with a hit sufficient to score the winning run.]

Cobb once said the only modern player he would pay to watch play was Willie Mays. Great choice.

Ty cobs record will never be broken

If you'd like to learn more about the REAL Ty Cobb, come visit the Ty Cobb Legacy facebook page. Lotsa pics, clippings, great conversations. See you there!

amazing

Very Cool!

I would have recognized Ty Cobb immediately. He was Soo rich at the time ,I hope he gave those smokes to an intern.

Funny, what horrible press Cobb got. I don't think many players in those days were too sweet on or off the field. His achievements on and off the field contradict everything about the mental case he's been portrayed as. Tiger Woods is even meaner, but the world loves him🤷‍♂️

That 26 inning game which ended in a tie didn't happen happen during the World Series but the Robins as they were also known in that season did go on to the World Series but lost to the Indians. The irony is the team they played for 26 innings was the Braves. So Indian words not so good for them.

Those three were holding up well. Baseball was still revered and was clearly still the national pastime. It was the only nationally followed pro sport. It was so clustered in the northeast, due to no jet travel to the west and segregation in the south. But people everywhere had a fav team and player.

Never gave Cobb much thought bc he played so long ago, but have to admit I always thought he was an immoral person based on field of dreams and Cobb movie. How wrong I was.

I can't find part two anywhere. Could someone please provide a link? I'm dying to see the rest of it!!

Fake news, he didn't pull a gun out and hold everyone hostage to explain the lost art of hitting a baseball. 😉

Cobb is baseball

Where is Part 2?

Cartons of Winston to both Cullen and Morgan who both died of lung cancer

So funny how it was completely acceptable to be condescending to women on TV in those days.

26 innings!!! What's crazier ,the innings pitched or that both teams only scored one run!!!

I was looking for a new hobby///Smoking it is

Pete Rose tells the story of Cobb sitting in the Yankees dugout one day before a game. One of the Yankees asks what he is doing there. The player then tells the SOB (Cobb) to get out and go back to his own dugout. Cobb glares at the player and leaves the dugout without saying a word. Later, Cobb is taking batting practice with the Yankees sitting in their dugout waiting their turn. Cobb then proceeds to hit hit 16 straight pitches in the Yankees dugout as the Yankees are scurrying around taking cover.

Oh Man...women don't know nuthin' so not blindfolded....well, not today!! lol And..."A carton of Winstons from our client and us" Well, not today. lol Yikes!....but cool to see these old-timers.

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Cobb is a gentle old man here, but make no mistake about it, he was tough back in the day. His first full season the catcher on his team had been a sparring partner of Jack Johnson's. He decided to give him the old rookie hazing along with some others but Ty was having none of it. He ended up getting knocked out by the catcher several times. The team had to eventually trade him away to save their future star. The best explanation I read about what happened with the writer Al Stump was that Stump decided to imagine that the young Cobb had never changed and was still the same as an old man, albeit sick and drunk. Telling a story about a man who recognized the virtue of black players after the success of Jackie Robinson, and had become a quiet gentleman in his old age wouldn't sell particularly well.

"The ladies whom we figure don't know nuthin' about baseball..." Ugh.

Here take a carton of cigarettes which could kill you😂

A carton of cigarettes was the prize???

A carton of smokes

What's the point ?!!

I know they were very sexist back then but this episode is one of the most! Very insulting to the ladies. I was hoping one of the ladies would recognise 1 of the men. My aunt probably could have.

And we wonder how people got addicted to tobacco