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 15-20 minutes to read: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/998563 . 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 . (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 the article (estimated read time, 2-3 minutes).
