The Aftermath (July 17-22)

A distillation of the previous week

Catching you up on the week that was…

And a new title for the recap posts.

We had stories of baseball legends, a football star, the British Open, a movie star, and a famous novella that became a movie. Also, some well-received advice came my way a couple times during the week.

How Coca-Cola was the key to this man's wealth

Rehabilitating the reputation of a legend

This man reportedly had some business dealings with my family back in Tennessee at one point, but we’re talking about 90+ years ago as far as I can tell.

The narrative since the 1960s about Mr. Cobb has been utterly destructive to who and what the man was during his life.

I’m sure he had problems and foibles like the rest of us, but the manufactured legend of a psychopathic racist who killed black people for sport couldn’t be further from the truth.

I made a resource page for some of the books that are best to read if you want to get into a deep-dive on the subject like me.