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Posted By: Anonymous

If your bringing up Cobb u might as well bring up "the Rajah" as well. Perhpas the games greatest second baseman of all time he also was one of the most controversial. Although he did not drink or smoke, he was a compulsive gambler. One writer characterized him as "a liturgy of hatred," and according to legendary baseball writer Fred Lieb, he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. And ofcourse were all famlier with his disdain for the less skillful players around him. Point is, some of the greatest players of the game have lived some awfully checkered lives, its part of the history of baseball, for better or worse.