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04-06-2013, 09:22 AM
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For the past 5+ years I've been reading microfilm of the Sporting News from the late-1940s through 1960.
The more I read these contemporary accounts of the aging Ty Cobb, the more I like him as a man.
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04-06-2013, 09:38 AM
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Thanks Jim!
That really helps explain why when I led his letters I always got the impression that he was very different than the popular opinion of what he was like.
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04-06-2013, 09:51 AM
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I've read that only 3 representatives of baseball attended his funeral. Not sure if thats true, but its sad.
Guessing that a lot of people he knew had already passed?
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04-06-2013, 09:56 AM
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Jim,
GREAT READ!!! I just added this to my collection, and from doing some research, and believing some major auction houses, only between 5-8 of these are known to exist, as Cobb supposedly only signed and gave these to "friends" of his personally. Jim, any truth to this that you know??
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04-06-2013, 09:52 AM
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JimStinson
Thanks guys , The Cobb information was factual but MINE was wrong
 The Cobb letter in previous post was posted by Mike N. (sorry Mike) One of the reasons I enjoy this hobby so much is in the case of Mike's Cobb letter, where something new is learned all the time. I was always under the impression that because of all of the medication Cobb was on and his drinking mostly to ease his physical pain from his cancer, that he was kind of "out of it" the last two years of his life The letter which was posted in the "April pick ups" thread clearly shows otherwise. He writes with amazing clarity only 15 months before his passing _____________________ jim@stinsonsports.com
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