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MarkJeff: It's incredible how biased you are in making a case that Cobb wasn't that bad of a guy or that his "bad personality traits" (as you put it) are excusable due to his upbringing.
Cobb once charged the stands to beat senseless a crippled heckler. He once beat a black groundskeeper and then choked the groundskeeper's wife (his teammates had to pull him off of her). Cobb once slapped a black elevator operator and then stabbed a black night watchman who intervened. He reportedly carried a gun with him during much of his career to protect him from..his own teammates.
It's disingenuous of you to have read up on Cobb and still characterize these vicious, criminal acts as mere "bad personality traits." Or to excuse them due to his childhood experiences. Or to say his personality was better than Bonds'.
Why can't you just admit that Cobb committed many vicious/criminal acts and was despised by his own teammates, but luckily the hall of fame evaluated him on his baseball skills instead of his personal life? Until you can admit this, your posts lack credibility.