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May 16, 2015 · A new biography of baseball legend Ty Cobb disputes the long-held beliefs that Cobb was a racist and a dirty player. Author Charles Leerhsen joins Bill Littlefield to explain how his...
Jun 4, 2024 · Cobb was insulted in the movie Field of Dreams ("No one liked that son of a bitch," one character said), depicted as a sexual predator in the 1995 biopic Cobb starring Tommy Lee Jones, and...
May 16, 2020 · The oft-repeated portrait of Detroit Tigers legend Ty Cobb is that the “Georgia Peach” was a racist and nothing short of a monster of a person.
May 17, 2016 · We have zero evidence to suggest that Cobb was a racist. He was a Southerner, born in Georgia in 1886, and it has become easy to equate that upbringing to a racist bent. But Cobb's great-grandfather preached against slavery.
Aug 2, 2008 · Ty Cobb was not a racist, he did not sharpen his spikes to slash other players just to steal a base, he did not kill a man in Detroit, as alleged by recent nickel writers, and he did not live...
Apr 6, 2017 · A New York Post article [‘How Ty Cobb was framed as a racist’ by Kyle Smith, May 31, 2015] states that Negro League ballplayer Bobby Robinson of the Detroit Stars said “there wasn’t a hint ...
Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 [1] – July 17, 1961), nicknamed " the Georgia Peach ", was an American professional baseball center fielder. A native of rural Narrows, Georgia, Cobb spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the ...
May 26, 2015 · Cobb’s grandfather and great-grandfather were staunchly antislavery, Leerhsen notes, and his father could sometimes speak “a bit like Atticus Finch from ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’
Jun 1, 2015 · When he began work on a new biography, “Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty” (Simon & Schuster), Charles Leerhsen expected to uncover fresh depictions of the player as a racist and a spikes-sharpening...
Aug 16, 2013 · But there was Ty Cobb, whose racist reputation always preceded him, to worry about. Due to a lingering cold and some promotional work he was doing for Coca-Cola, Cobb was late reporting to camp, which only increased Dunlap’s sense of dread.
