is that ty cobb related to THE ty cobb of baseball?
I doubt it. It seems to me that if yor last name is Cobb you might as well call your kid Tyrus or Ty (or Tyrone, I guess), and even if your name is Robert you might get tagged with Ty as a nickname.
Check out post 35, which explains that an adjoining district has a representative also named Ty Cobb. Talk about confusing! Good thing the other Ty Cobb lost yesterday, and not just because he was the Democrat.