It's time for Cats to stop Fucking slurring and besmirching

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It's time for Cats to stop Fucking slurring and besmirching Ty Cobb!

Ty Cobb is the greatest pure hitter Baseball has ever seen and nobody has ever been more denigrated unfairly in the history of the game.

>There are no stories in any of the historical newspapers about Ty Cobb's being a racist or doing things like sharpening the spikes on his cleats. His cleat sharpening is a myth created by the Tommy Lee Jones movie.

>All negative portrayals of him never surfaced after he died, and all of them are sourced by Al Stump, who has been thoroughly discredited.

>Ty Cobb immediately supported Jackie Robinson, and was one of the first high profile former players to do so. "Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man; in my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life." "The Negro should be accepted and not grudgingly but wholeheartedly."

>In 1953, black newspapers cited his praise for Brooklyn Dodgers' catcher Roy Campanella, who Cobb said was "among the all-time best catchers" in baseball. Following Campanella's accident that left him paralyzed, the Dodgers staged a tribute game where tens of thousands of spectators silently held lit matches above their heads. Cobb wrote the Dodgers owner to show appreciation "for what you did for this fine man." Cobb also stated that Willie Mays was the "only player I'd pay money to see."

You MotherFuckers, it's time to show respect!