Ty Cobb's .367 Batting Average
Story★★★★‘’That’s it,” said the rabbi. “Ty Cobb got one hit out of every three times at bat.
He failed twice as often as he succeeded. So what do you expect already?”
“Ah,” said the man, who thought he was a wretched failure because he failed
only half the time.
The point
A rabbi tells a man frustrated with his failures that Ty Cobb got one hit per three at bats—succeeding one-third the time—so the man failing only half the time is doing quite well.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous · Reassuring
To tell aloud
under a minute · 50 words