The statue, completed in 1977, was designed by Felix de Weldon and was located near Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium and later Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Following the Atlanta Braves' departure from Turner Field in 2017, the statue was relocated to Cobb's hometown of Royston, Georgia.

[1] He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1936 and became a philanthropist later in life before dying in Atlanta in 1961.

[2] In 1977, Citizens & Southern National Bank president Mills Lane commissioned the sculptor Felix de Weldon to create a statue honoring Cobb.

[8] In December, a large folk art painting of the statue's rededication was unveiled at the Ty Cobb Museum, also located in Royston.