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Heard every Sunday night from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Zuma Radio, the new AM 740.

Poking holes in the darkness.

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We are back with Charles Learson, the author of Ty Cobb, A Terrible Beauty.

You know, one of the arguments when a Hall of Fame voting season would come around and people would say, well, how can you deny Pete Roe's entry into the Hall of Fame?

How can you deny Barry Bond's entry into the Hall of Fame when they allowed Ty Cobb into the Hall of Fame?

He was a racist and a

murderer and a monster and so forth. And it turns out that the very first player ever

voted into the Hall of Fame with more votes than Babe Ruth, we should point out, was none of those

things. Not a saint, but certainly not a monster.

And it's all chronicled in a new book by Charles Learson

called Ty Cobb, A Terrible Beauty.

So Charles, earlier you were dispelling the myths

that Ty Cobb was a racist,

that he was certainly in favor of integration, attended Negro

League games throughout the first pitch. But what about this charge that he actually killed

a man in Cleveland for being uppity?

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