Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

Ty cobb was baseball’s first superstar and its first inductee into the major league baseball hall of fame

Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

Yet when most people think of him they think of a racist jerk

Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

Charles leerhsen unpacks ty cobb’s life in an outstanding biography entitled “ty cobb a terrible beauty

Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

People said it in bars ken burns said it in his baseball documentary so it must be true—that sort of thing

Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

Just because you’ve heard something a thousand times doesn’t mean it’s true

Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

Leerhsen discovered that an opportunistic journalist named al stump almost wholly made up the derogatory claims about cobb from unnamed sources

Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

And as the cliche goes the bad stuff is easier to believe than the good stuff so the lies about cobb stuck

Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

Forget what most of the other authors have written and said about cobb