Ty Cobb: Inconvenient Truths
Cobb as Monster: “Give people something they want to believe and they will take it and run with it and make it their own. After all, who doesn’t like a monster story—especially one that allows the teller to express his own superiority—to say, ‘I’m not a slave to feelings of racism and anger like this pathetic man was; I look down upon that kind of behavior.’ A scary story that is also a feel-good story is hard to beat.”
Charles Leerhsen has done a rare thing: bucked popular cant and human nature to deliver a breathtaking reappraisal of the greatest baseball player of all time.…