The Truth About (the Original) Ty Cobb (Ep. 92)

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann banter about Freddie
Freeman's performance at third base so far (00:30), the Nationals'
trade for Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson (02:00), and Matt
Holliday's weekend baserunning adventure (06:15). Then, with "Ty
Cobb" recently trending for a surprising reason, they talk to
Charles Leerhsen, author of 'Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty,' about why
the baseball legend was not the cruel, cutthroat racist he's widely
believed to be (12:00), how that misconception started (26:30), and
what we can learn from how hard it's been to debunk Cobb's bad
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