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LA Ute
04-11-2016, 07:44 AM
This is interesting:
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong
http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-was-ty-cobb-the-history-we-know-thats-wrong/
"It's men in shorts." -- Rick Majerus
DrumNFeather
04-11-2016, 09:23 AM
This is interesting:
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong
http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-was-ty-cobb-the-history-we-know-thats-wrong/
"It's men in shorts." -- Rick Majerus
Fascinating article on a number of levels. Particularly the idea that we often get with historical figures of "It is well know that they were ..."
chrisrenrut
04-11-2016, 09:40 AM
This is interesting:
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong
http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-was-ty-cobb-the-history-we-know-thats-wrong/
"It's men in shorts." -- Rick Majerus
Thanks, that was a good read. Growing up, I read a lot of my dad's old books on baseball. I always related best to Cobb, being the shortest kid in my class, not the most talented on the field, and feeling like I had to out work, out smart, and out hustle others to be successful. I didn't admire or emulate Cobb's alleged temperament, and it's good to hear that much of that might have been embellished or outright made up.
mUUser
04-12-2016, 08:22 AM
Love how the author calls out his contemporaries as basically, lazy journalists. No so-called "blue wall of silence" here.
Great read. Many thanks.
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