Was Cobb really as people perceive him???

[esd10]

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[ALR-bishop]

I never met Cobb and neither did my wife, but her grandfather and Cobb got to be good friends for the reasons mentioned below. Cobb was one of his pallbearers. Her grandfather liked Cobb so much he wanted to name my wife's dad Tyrus. My wife's Grandmother disliked him so much she threatened divorce if he did, so they named him Charles instead.

I guess that is the way with most of us, some like us, some do not

[Bob Lemke]

I'm currently reading microfilm of back issues of The Sporting News from early 1962, about six months after Cobb's death. TSN and countless writers, including former contemporaries, were avid in their defense of Cobb as having been maligned by Stump in one (or possibly a series of) magazine articles published after Cobb's death.

Many of the accounts I've read in TSN from the 1940s-1962 have convinced me that Cobb was not really the ogre that he had been painted to be.

[DeanH3]

Originally Posted by esd10

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