Appears he isn’t. Not too likable. Some people also. Some folks are so focused on winning they block out humanity.
Cobb’s reputation is fake news, in other words.
Admittedly I had never heard most of these false allegations, but the “sharpened spikes” one I certainly had.
Sorry, I meant to post to SeekAndFind, not that it really matters.
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This has the potential to twist a lot of knickers on FR.
Starting with the fact that he was a son of a southern gentleman who started his national fame as an 18 year old, it is easy to see why Ty did not fit into the normal mode. He hit national prominence in the year his mother killed his father in an incident that never made much sense. While plainly short tempered in an era of brawlers, Ty Cobb was hardly the character that he was painted. This is one of the two biographies of the last five years that was issued and has seemed to balance the record. There is a new book out referring to his alleged racist leanings in its title and as the word had no meaning in that era, I am dismissing it for now.
He paid for a hospital to be built in his home town. Not the actions of a psychopath.