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Posted By: Paul

The story is definitely nonsense, for the reasons you said. I can understand
Cobb not wanting to hit homeruns IF it would lower his average. But, according to the story, he went 6 for 6 with 3 homers. Swinging for the fences actually increased his average. If the story was true, Cobb would have kept swinging for the fences.

I suspect the story was started by Cobb's fans, not Cobb.