[cripplecreek]

Ty Cobb had no love for the press and that is really the heart of it.

[ClearCase_guy]

Liberals can name three terrible racists:

1) Ty Cobb
2) Strom Thurmond
3) George Wallace

And there's only three things wrong with that list ...

[cripplecreek]

Really good article that tells a lot about Cobb.

Ty Cobb Was Not A Racist

He was a mean spirited man but also an extremely charitable man and the focus of his charity was almost exclusively on helping blacks.

[RichInOC]

I think Ty thought about most people the way Gunny Hartman thought about his platoon: Whatever they are, they’re all equally worthless.

[Fungi]

The last line of the article: “Detecting sin in someone else is a way of announcing to the world, and to yourself, your own virtue.” How true, in other words, judge not lest ye be judged.

[Does so]

I had a scuffed old "Partridge League" baseball from my Grandfather rolling around in my sock drawer. It had about a dozen unknown autographs on it. One day it rolled to the front of the drawer, only then showing the Ty Cobb autograph!

≡≡8-O

[Forgotten Amendments]

I've been a serious baseball fan for 50 years. I've heard him called “racist”, but not the worst.

Cap Anson, who started the color barrier is more notorious. Enos Slaughter (who spike Jackie Robinson in the Achilles tendon @ 1B , a cowardly move) was much reviled.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Thanks. This is a great piece.

[Michael.SF.]

Even Shoeless Joe Jackson didn't like Ty Cobb

[yarddog]

I saw an episode of “You Bet Your Life” where Groucho had Casey Stengel on as a contestant.

Of course Groucho who was a long time baseball fan, talked baseball with Casey. One question he asked was “who was the greatest player of all time”. Casey responded “Tyrus Raymond Cobb, no one else was even close”.

Groucho agreed with him and then asked how he thought Cobb would do against then current pitchers. Stengel said Cobb would hit around .270. Groucho then said something like well that is not all that good. Casey said “well you have to remember that Cobb is over 70 years old”.

[Impy]

Interesting.

[Secret Agent Man]

Nobody has sver had to teach the media how to do a smear job.

[dennisw]

Great article that sets things right about the immortal Ty Cobb

[eyedigress]

I guess Lou Gehrig is next on the chopping block from the moonbat media.

[driftless2]

Like a lot of things, the truth about Cobb is probably somewhere in the middle. He was an extremely competitive player which undoubtedly rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. But most likely not nearly as evil as the stuff I’ve read about him for the last sixty years.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Cobb was a mixed bag, just like everyone else. His effort in assisting the young Joe DiMaggio negotiate his first Yankee contract makes a wonderful story, which is more than offset by the time he went into the stands and beat the crap out of a man with no hands. Whether he was racist is almost beside the point that Cobb was almost universally disliked by teammates and opponents alike, as pointed out by Shoeless Joe in Field of Dreams.

[presidio9]

I don't have time to read this thread right now, so forgive me if I repeat the fact that In 1945, Ty had decided that, as a memorial to his parents, he would make possible a modern hospital for the people of his hometown, Royston, GA. That hospital was open to people of all races during segregation, and is still in existence today:

Additionally, my dad's grandfather had the proverbial cup of coffee with the Tigers in the 20's and always spoke highly of Cobb as a person.

Finally, the is this more extended bio of Cobb by Bill Burgess on Baseballguru.com

[Bratch]

[foreverfree]

Bumping this up because I just finished reading Leehrsen's book on Cobb. A four bagger of a book I.E. it goes yard. Well worth reading.

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