When Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell was a younger man and just starting his career, he interviewed Ty Cobb. I believe it was the only time he ever met him. I listened to countless ballgames on the radio from the late '70s until Ernie's retirement decades later, and while I don't recall Ernie ever attempting to discredit any of the infamous Cobb stories, I distinctly remember during a Tigers broadcast, when the legendary "cantankerous" Cobb was the subject of conversation, Ernie laughing and saying something along the lines of, "Well, Ty Cobb was friendly to me." I don't know anybody else who ever met him... so Cobb is batting 1.000 among the character witnesses I trust.

The scumbag Al Stump made a fortune on bashing Cobb at his weakest moment. A lot of people don't know, but Cobb signed dozens of balls for Stump during their time together. He also gave him a game used uniform including glove from his very early years with Detroit (priceless)...Cobb was extremely generous, especially with people close to him. He kept HOFer Mickey Cochrane out of the gutter, and he also helped Rogers Hornsby on more than one occasion. Al Stump is a piece of garbage....Wonder how much money he got from all of Cobb's memorabilia??

Once Stump was done hawking the personal items that COBB had given him he realized that he was on to something so he started selling other junk claiming they were personal items of Cobbs that Cobb had given to him. He made quite a few bucks selling junk, claiming it once belonged to COBB and it never did...