Don't ever mess with Boss Schmidt

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In the most recent Cobb book the author makes a good case for Boss and Hughie conspiring together to create the "Cobb attacked a black groundskeeper and his wife" story in an effort to get Cobb traded.

Nap Lajoie and his Naps were in Macon, Ga about 140 miles from Augusta where Detroit was training. Jennings wanted Elmer Flick and asked Navin to trade cobb for flick, they could swap out that day and Navin squashed the trade saying he would never trade Cobb.

Cobb had been sent to Augusta early to survey the training grounds because a circus had been on the field for the previous month....Cobb wrote the team telling them the field is horrible, the groundskeeper sucks, etc....a month or so before the Tigers arrived the groundskeeper was arrested for drunkingly walking into someone elses home. When the Tigers arrived the groundskeeper approached Cobb calling him another name and tried to hug him while drunk..Cobb pushed him away.


Later Schmidt says he was walking back to the clubhouse when he say Cobb attacking the couple.

Schmidt is the only witness to this "attack" and throttled Cobb during their fight..Cobb maintained he never attacked the groundskeeper or the groundskeeper's wife.

Jennings wanted Cobb gone...he conspired with Boss to create an incident where they would blame Cobb for attacking a black groundskeeper and hopefully could get him traded.