I always loved the line from Field of Dreams: “Ty Cobb wanted to play, but none of us could stand the son-of-a-bitch when we were alive, so we told him to stick it!”

And Pete Rose is not. Kinda strange.

I believe there was some evidence that he also gambled on baseball, just like Rose. Babe Ruth, too. It just got swept under the rug.

There is actually a rule in baseball that it is illegal to steal second base from 3rd base. This rule is there because of Cobb. He used to do it just to humiliate his opponents. There is no tactical reason otherwise to do such a thing.

Look him up to see how he did a disservice to Cobb, if you will. Just remember, Thomas Jefferson was a slaver.

Cobb was no saint but he basically got screwed by one unscrupulous writer.

It has it all. BTW, I went to school with Tommy. He is a great actor.

Yes, he took competition too far and was a jerk on the field and sometimes off it. But some of the worst stories came from one unreliable source, a biographer he tried to counter but died just before the book came out.

According to recent researchers who went over old records and news stories, Cobb did not beat up a black stadium worker and his wife, helped many black people financially over the years, supported Jackie Robinson and Blacks playing in the majors and funded a philanthropic foundation that continues to this day. His ancestor was an abolitionist in Georgia.

Just one of several stories you'll find, this from a recent bio;
https://www.mlb.com/news/ty-cobb-history-built-on-inaccuracies-c178601094