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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

    Very misunderstood.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,748 Founders Club
    chuck said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    chuck said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

    Al Stump wrote a fantastic book about Cobb. Cobb was a complicated figure.
    For sure. But then again he went into the stands and stomped out a disabled guy for some comment about Cobb being black or like a black or half black or something along those lines. Then he justified it saying nobody should have to put up with that even from a guy with no hands. Or maybe he had no feet. One of those.
    but then again he did some incredibly charitable things for needy people that went unreported. he was mentally ill in his later years and alienated everyone

    at his funeral only two people from the world of baseball attended
    Dang Derek you should talk to my GF. The two of you surprisingly have something in common. Maybe you could organize an annual Ty Cobb apologist get together.

    I believe you that there's more to him than I or most others know. My take is that he was mentally ill from the start. Nobody is that intense without some sort of disorder.
    His father climbed in through a window as he suspected his wife of cheating on him. His wife mistook him for a burglar and shot him to death. Ty was 17 at the time. Al Stump speculated that this was what mentally broke Ty. (Cobb, not Willingham)
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,748 Founders Club
    ThomasFremont said:

    Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

    Very misunderstood.

    Sounds like you've got it all figured out.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,748 Founders Club
    ThomasFremont said:

    Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

    Very misunderstood.

    And I said complicated, not misunderstood.
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    DerekJohnson said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

    Very misunderstood.

    And I said complicated, not misunderstood.
    I sharpened by spikes when I played baseball too. So I think I know what I’m talking about.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,512 Standard Supporter
    ThomasFremont said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

    Very misunderstood.

    And I said complicated, not misunderstood.
    I sharpened by spikes when I played baseball too. So I think I know what I’m talking about.
    Going from plastic spikes to metal spikes in 5th grade was the highlight of my baseball career.

    I did come in high on a slide one time and the bloody mess of the opposing 3rd baseman's shin was something of which I still quite proud.



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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    PurpleThrobber said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

    Very misunderstood.

    And I said complicated, not misunderstood.
    I sharpened by spikes when I played baseball too. So I think I know what I’m talking about.
    Going from plastic spikes to metal spikes in 5th grade was the highlight of my baseball career.

    I did come in high on a slide one time and the bloody mess of the opposing 3rd baseman's shin was something of which I still quite proud.



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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,807 Swaye's Wigwam
    ThomasFremont said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

    Very misunderstood.

    And I said complicated, not misunderstood.
    I sharpened by spikes when I played baseball too. So I think I know what I’m talking about.
    I never spike the kids.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    DerekJohnson said:

    chuck said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

    Al Stump wrote a fantastic book about Cobb. Cobb was a complicated figure.
    For sure. But then again he went into the stands and stomped out a disabled guy for some comment about Cobb being black or like a black or half black or something along those lines. Then he justified it saying nobody should have to put up with that even from a guy with no hands. Or maybe he had no feet. One of those.
    but then again he did some incredibly charitable things for needy people that went unreported. he was mentally ill in his later years and alienated everyone

    at his funeral only two people from the world of baseball attended
    Syphilis will do that to a man.
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    If Little League Confidential isn’t on that list, it should be.
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