Ty Cobb's Racism & Path to Redemption
It's a honor to be included in the most recent issue of NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture (Volume 34, Number 2, Spring 2026). In response to an open-call for contributors , I took on the opposing book review of Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty , by Charles Leerhsen. The analysis centers on a critique of Leerhsen’s 2015 biography, which attempts to exonerate Cobb of charges of racism. The NINE Journal article is free to access online and takes an estimated 10 minutes to read: Click here for the PDF Download Or visit Project Muse for the Web option For those who prefer not to read the article (but still want the main points), I used Google Gemini Notebook to convert the content into to a more entertaining podcast format (run time: 20 minutes and 29 seconds). (Note: This is the second podcast generated from the article to correct factual errors erroneously generated in the first cut.) And finally, the 600-word summary below offers a brief summary of th...
