Wow, never heard about this one before. But whether Cobb bet on games we’ll never really know for sure. And if it can be proven that he did, he should be removed from the Hall. If this is true, I don’t know why Landis wouldn’t have banned Cobb for life too. Shoeless Joe Jackson was just as good a player and probably a little better hitter than Cobb was at the time he was banned for life in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. But one thing is for sure, we definitely know Rose bet on games he was involved in. As Rose once said “I bet on my team every night, not just four days a week, I bet on them every night. I was wrong”
The Dowd investigation determined that he only bet on 53 Reds games in 1987. Hard to imagine that it would be so wrong as to get 53 as opposed to all of them.
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