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Calling Good People "Racist" Isn't New: the Case of Ty Cobb (Video)
Prager University ^ | 4-3-2017 | Charles Leerhsen

Posted on 04/03/2017 9:20:46 AM PDT by servo1969

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Ty Cobb poses with Alex Rivers, who Cobb employed for 18 years. Rivers even named his son after Cobb.

More info on how Cobb was slandered. Al Stump even made fake Cobb diaries.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/770355-ty-cobb-hall-of-famer-betrayed-by-writers-for-50-years-ruined-players-legacy

1 posted on 04/03/2017 9:20:46 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969
In the movie Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe Jackson says that Cobb wasn't invited to the ghostly cornfield reunion because, “No one liked the son of a bitch.”

Field of Dreams is easily one of the most over-rated movies of all time.

2 posted on 04/03/2017 9:28:27 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: servo1969
The first man ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Actually, there were FIVE players inducted in the very first HOF ceremony in 1936 -- Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, and Babe Ruth.

3 posted on 04/03/2017 9:29:17 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo (The Left doesn't want to win the debate, they want to CANCEL the debate)
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To: servo1969

Great video! Thanks for posting!


4 posted on 04/03/2017 9:33:15 AM PDT by albie
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To: servo1969
On the subject of blacks playing with whites, Cobb said, “The Negro should be accepted wholeheartedly and not grudgingly… The Negro has the right to play professional baseball, and who's to say he has not?” Cobb attended many Negro league games, sometimes throwing out the first pitch and sitting in the dugout with the players. He said Willie Mays was the only modern-day player he'd pay to see.

Yup! Somehow the progressive fruitcake Ken Burns failed to mention this in his Baseball documentary.

5 posted on 04/03/2017 9:37:40 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo (The Left doesn't want to win the debate, they want to CANCEL the debate)
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To: servo1969

Very interesting.

Thank you for this post.


6 posted on 04/03/2017 9:40:46 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: servo1969

Thank you for posting this. I hate slander.


7 posted on 04/03/2017 9:41:24 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Field of Dreams is easily one of the most over-rated movies of all time.

godawful movie; pure, unadulterated sap...


8 posted on 04/03/2017 9:59:21 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: servo1969

Thanks for the post. Filed under ‘More stuff that I thought I knew that turned out not to be true’.


9 posted on 04/03/2017 10:01:56 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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Somehow the progressive fruitcake Ken Burns failed to mention this in his Baseball documentary.

if Ken Burns had quit after his Civil War production, he’d be remembered as a genius...but no, and now he’s, well, a progressive fruitcake...


10 posted on 04/03/2017 10:02:05 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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Yes indeed. I always thought it very odd that in that documentary, Burns spent 5-10 minutes cheering John McGraws “rough/brawling brand of baseball” - what a tough competitor he was!

-and then spending the next 5-10 minutes denouncing Cobb for the exact same competitiveness.


11 posted on 04/03/2017 10:04:58 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: servo1969

So this Al Stump is the source of all the BS about Cobb?


12 posted on 04/03/2017 10:11:30 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: servo1969

Type Cobb abused steroids so, should his batting average and record really be considered seriously?
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13 posted on 04/03/2017 10:14:35 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Dam they treat Cobb like he was a Republican or Conservative
14 posted on 04/03/2017 10:14:43 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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So this Al Stump is the source of all the BS about Cobb?

Yup. Try to get to the source of these stories about Cobb, and they all go back to Stump, and no further.

the infowarrior

15 posted on 04/03/2017 10:16:52 AM PDT by infowarrior
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If his family was abolitionist in the deep South and he respected blacks and espoused their having equal rights then lo and behold he was a Republican. An endangered, literally, species in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Georgia.
16 posted on 04/03/2017 10:33:40 AM PDT by katana (It still hasn't occurred to them that Trump doesn't give a s***)
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I thought of that ..but I don’t see anything about his political affiliations


17 posted on 04/03/2017 10:36:28 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: servo1969

I was poisoned by the smears against Ty Cobb. I had no idea they weren’t true. Sad how easily people can be smeared by charlatans with an agenda. Contemporary liberals are masters of this dark art.


18 posted on 04/03/2017 11:28:00 AM PDT by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: servo1969

Reverend Rufus Griswold did the same to Edgar Allen Poe.


19 posted on 04/03/2017 11:28:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Sans-Culotte

no kidding. They had Joe Jackson bat right and throw left.


20 posted on 04/03/2017 11:45:07 AM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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