The Ty Cobb Museum is a nonprofit organization founded to perpetuate the memory of the greatest baseball hitter of all time, Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Its mission is to foster education and understanding to the broadest possible audience of the greatness of Ty Cobb. This mission is set forward by providing art and memorabilia, film, books, and historical archives. The Museum collects, preserves, researches, interprets and exhibits items related to Ty Cobb and the great game of baseball. The purpose of the Ty Cobb Museum is to promote, honor and preserve the legacy, contributions, and celebrated life and fame of Ty Cobb. Ty Cobb was the first player elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum. The Ty Cobb Museum also seeks to reconstitute Cobb's reputation to its original state through charitable, educational, social means, and all other possible outlets.