Everything you thought you knew about Ty Cobb is wrong, according to Charles Leerhsen, author of Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty. In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Leerhsen describes why so many people incorrectly believe Cobb was a racist lunatic and speculates on whether Cobb would make the cut in the MLB today.
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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