Cobb just lost his baseball record to Josh Gibson, a Black man. Many people are cheering—thanks to a sportswriter's lie.
We live in a time when villains never seem to get their comeuppance. So the recent news that Major League Baseball had re-crunched its trove of statistics and taken the legendary Ty Cobb down a notch from first to second place among all-time batting champs had many sports fans celebrating. Cobb, who played mostly for the Detroit Tigers from 1905 to 1928, was a pioneering superstar who had an astounding lifetime batting average of .367, a number that was until recently considered unsurpassable.
'But what about Cobb's Southern roots? How could someone born in Georgia in 1886 not be a racist? What I found with my research was that Cobb came from a long line of abolitionists. His great-grandfather was a minister who preached against slavery and was run out of town for it. His grandfather refused to fight in the Confederate army because of the slavery issue. And his father was an educator and state senator who spoke up for his Black constituents and once broke up a lynch mob.
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