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Statue of Ty Cobb not moving with Braves?
Ty Cobb slides into history outside Turner Field downtown. He apparently won’t be heading up to Smyrna with the Braves. PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com
By Bill Torpy
Feb 17, 2016Hank Aaron's heroic statue outside Turner Field kicked off a nasty little fight between the Braves and the Atlanta Fulton County Rec Authority over its ownership as the team gets ready to skedaddle.
The statue of Ty Cobb? Not so much.
In fact, it seems the hard-nosed Georgia Peach, among the first players inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame, has become a marked man due to history.
Everybody just knows he was a rotten guy — a racist, a misogynist, a dirty player. Right? Well, maybe that's worth another look.
About the Author
Bill Torpy, who writes about metro Atlanta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joined the newspaper in 1990.
