Was Cobb really as people perceive him???

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Stump's book was somewhat out of bounds pertaining Cobb in my opinion. Yes, he would fight you at the drop of a hat, but he also had a tremendous upside pertaining charities and fellow players that he really cared about. I have a distant relative that was a HOFer, and he told my father how generous Cobb was with his money, and how he supported some of his baseball friends (one being HOFer Mickey Cochrane). Having said that, a ton of players hated him. He would slide into you trying to steal a base or break up a double play. I don't think to this day that he was a racist, but he did sometimes appear that way because of his Georgia roots and the way he was depicted . If I'm not mistaken, he had a personal housekeeper in Nevada that he left a ton of money to when he died....