Of course, much like everyone’s relationship with Ty Cobb (especially if you were black), Crawford’s partnership with the Georgia Peach was complicated – complicated because Ty Cobb was, by most accounts, an ass hole (or as Cobb apologists would tell you, aggressive).
The American sports fan likes the bad-ass, the guy who doesn’t take any shit, the guy who looks like he can – and wants to – kick your ass on and off the field. In baseball in the 1960s there was a man like that, the most feared man in the sport, and he got his pleasant demeanor growing up in Nebraska.
