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Old 12-26-2013, 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul S View Post
Not sure if this is the same fight ( think I might have read it in The Glory Of Their Times although I don't recall it from the audio CD). Either way, IIRC, some of the Tigers were down in Georgia and one of the players didn't like the way Cobb treated a black man. Cobb and the player went at it and Cobb got licked. (Feel free to add or correct this).
On the "Glory" audio set, Davy Jones talks about the Cobb-Schmidt fight in considerable detail. It started when Schmidt objected to the way Cobb was speaking to a black cleaning lady.
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