"When I played ball," said Ty Cobb, "I didn't play for fun.... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, survival of the fittest." The Hall of Fame outfielder survived quite well. He has the highest lifetime average (.366) of any Major League player with a full career. He played from 1905-26 with the Detroit Tigers and finished his playing days with two seasons on the Philadelphia Athletics. He was a 12-time American League batting champion, and at one point he held the Major League record for hits (4,189) and stolen bases (897), until the records were surpassed by Pete Rose and Lou Brock, respectively. Ty Cobb was a great success in another way besides baseball. He was a financial wizard. Geography played a part, but Cobb was astute and daring enough to heavily invest in two opportunities, decisions that made him a millionaire, back when that really meant something - great wealth. A native of Georgia, near Atlanta, Cobb as a young player invested in the new Coca-Cola, an Atlanta based company and got in near the beginning, and his Coca-Cola investments alone made him extremely wealthy. As a player with the Detroit Tigers, Cobb became aware of another young company on the rise - the Motor's City's General Motors. Cobb invested in General Motors when the company was in its early days, and again Cobb made a fortune. So, it is fittingly appropriate to present a Ty Cobb signed check, a memento of an inaugural Hall of Fame player and a figurative Hall of Fame investor. The check is drawn on the First National Bank of Nevada, and the 3x8.1" check is handwritten and signed by Cobb, not using his trademark green ink, but written in black ink, in large and neat script, with a fountain pen. Cobb's name is printed on the check as "Tyrus R. Cobb," and he has signed the check in the same way. The check is in the amount of six hundred two dollars and sixty-nine cents, and it is written to Southern Pacific R.R.C. and dated 11/27/52. The check has been endorsed by Southern Pacific and cashed. The check has been encapsulated and certified PSA/DNA AUTHENTIC AUTO.