Ty Cobb - Not a Cheating Bigot or Dirty Player - new biography

[Orioles1954]

Jeff and others--

Probably one of the neatest projects I've had in the auction industry was reviewing the dozens of letters penned between Ty Cobb and Helene Champlain ranging over five decades from the 1910s through the 1950s. I'm not sure how Cobb and Champlain met and if there was "something more" to their relationship, but the letters were hardly dripping with sexual tension. What's more is that they were entirely absent of racial rhetoric, the ramblings of a psychotic mad man or even one mention of baseball. In short, they were really interesting book reviews with other personal anecdotes interspersed. In short, it helped me understand the depth of Cobb in greater detail....an astute and well-read business man who loved the weather in both California and Nevada