The vast majority of the stories about Cobb being a racist or otherwise bad person were fabricated out of whole cloth by his biographer Al Stump. Stump also peddled counterfeit Cobb memorabilia, including a supposed Cobb diary that Stump forged. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

The Knife in Ty Cobb’s Back

Did the baseball great really confess to murder on his deathbed?