[2] He and his wife Mary were especially close to Ruth's teammate Lou Gehrig; Walter Brennan's character in the movie The Pride of the Yankees was loosely based on him.

This and many other profitable investments along the way allowed Lieb to retire in 1934 from the "real work" of daily reporting to focus solely on writing about baseball.

[2] in 1972, he received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award (named after his original boss at The Sporting News), and was added to the writers' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973.

[2] Lieb was a prolific writer, contributing to The Sporting News from 1935 to 1980, the St. Petersburg Times from 1965 until his death, The Saturday Evening Post from 1927 to 1933, as well as freelancing for other numerous publications, scoring games in New York, and authoring several books.

At the end of the season, American League (AL) official records were compiled using the AP box scores, giving Cobb a .401 batting average.

The New York writers protested to the commissioner on December 14, 1922, claiming that Ty Cobb's batting average should be .399 based on the official scorer's stats, but to no avail.