Judging Cobb
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 5:39 pm
I just saw an open league posting that perpetuates (via reference to the film Field of Dreams) the idea that Ty Cobb was a vile human being who was universally and justifiably despised by his contemporaries. For those of you who hold that opinion of Cobb, I suggest you suspend your judgement long enough to read the recent Cobb biography, A Terrible Beauty, by Charles Leerhsen. If you're too broke to buy it or too busy to read it, here is a link to a lecture Leerhsen gave at Hillsdale College which succinctly presents his argument that the Cobb -The- Vile- Violent- Racist that most of us have come to accept as gospel is, in fact, a concoction; a fiction that began shortly after his death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjbPzoboilM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjbPzoboilM