Baseball Legend Ty Cobb On Who Shouldn’t Have Been Left Out Of The HOF And What Made Willie Mays Awesome
One of the biggest stars in MLB history had some thoughts about the best players in the game in the final stages of his life
Ty Cobb wasn’t just a baseball mega star. He simply played the game at an entirely different speed as anyone else. Even after he was done playing, his dominance over the game made him an oracle of sorts that fans and writers flocked to for his take on a variety of topics. As he reached his final years, he still followed the game closely and was as opinionated as ever.
Between 1905–1928 with the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics, the left-handed hitting Cobb batted arecord .366 with 4,189 base hits, 117 home runs, 1,944 RBIs, 2,245 runs scored and 897 stolen bases. His intensity was so well known that over time, with the help of those seeking profits (authors who invented wholesale stories and lies about his life and career and sold them as fact), his reputation was rebranded as someone who was a hateful monster.
Less than two years before his death in 1961, Cobb was in the hospital, having one of what had become a litany of maladies attended to. Joe Reichler of the Atlanta Constitution reached out to see…
