CLOSE X Share Copy Link ? Link copied to clipboard! We live in a time when villains never seem to get their comeuppance. So the recent news that Major League Baseball had re-crunched its trove of statistics and taken the legendary Ty Cobb down a notch from first to second place among all-time batting champs had many sports fans celebrating. Cobb, who played mostly for the Detroit Tigers from 1905 to 1928, was a pioneering superstar who had an astounding lifetime batting average of .367, a number that was until recently considered unsurpassable. He was also the most exciting player...