[servo1969]

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

[Sans-Culotte]

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.

[Mr. Mojo]

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.

[albie]

Great video! Thanks for posting!

[Mr. Mojo]

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.

[Paulie]

Very interesting.

Thank you for this post.

[left that other site]

Thank you for posting this. I hate slander.

[El Cid]

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

[Sans-Culotte]

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

[Vendome]

Type Cobb abused steroids so, should his batting average and record really be considered seriously?
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[tophat9000]

Dam they treat Cobb like he was a Republican or Conservative

[Enchante]

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.

[MarvinStinson]

Reverend Rufus Griswold did the same to Edgar Allen Poe.

[DeFault User]

If you’re ever near Royston, Georgia, be sure and visit the Ty Cobb museum there in his hometown. Cobb was not only a great baseball player but also a savvy investor, making a fortune with Coca-Cola. He donated funds to build the Cobb Memorial Hospital in Royston.

It occurs to me that Arnold Palmer, one of the greatest players in his sport, also became fabulously wealthy and also donated huge sums of money for hospitals; but look at the difference in reputations of both. :(

[Organic Panic]