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c.1927 Ty Cobb Autographed Thank You Note Relating to the "Game Fixing Scandal" – PSA/DNA Encapsulated
Presented here is an outstanding c.1927 autographed Ty Cobb thank you note in response to someone's support for the legendary "Georgia Peach" during the renowned "game fixing scandal". Few people realize that like the infamous "Black Sox Eight", Ty Cobb was actually at huge risk of being banned from baseball for allegedly "fixing" an Indians/Tigers game on September 26, 1919 along with Tris Speaker, Smoky Joe Wood and Dutch Leonard. Cobb always denied he bet $2,000 on the Detroit vs. Cleveland game, but in 1926, Leonard sold letters written by Cobb and Wood (relating to the incident) to American League President Ban Johnson. The alleged fix was now public knowledge but as the story goes, in lieu of how the Black Sox "Scandal" had nearly ruined baseball forever, Judge Landis ultimately decided NOT to proceed in banning Cobb, Speaker, Wood and Leonard.

Understandably, Landis greatly feared that America's Pastime could not survive another major gambling related scandal, especially considering it involved two of baseball's greatest players (Cobb and Speaker). Further irony is that Landis' "take no-action" behavior was a complete contradiction from his following legendary statement after banning eight Chicago White Sox players: "Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player who throws a baseball game, no player who undertakes or promises to throw a baseball game, no player that sits in conference with a bunch of crooked gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a game are discussed and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball". It is obvious that Cob b is ultra-thankful for one of his supporters as he eloquently states in this historically significant typed note: "Dear Sir: - Your letter was received. I want you to know I appreciated deeply your thoughts and sentiments. It was very consoling to know the attitude of my friends during the unfair and unfortunate proceedings. – Sincerely, Ty Cobb".

Cobb has scripted this 4.25" x 5.5" thick stock card "Ty Cobb" in fine black fountain pen, with pre-1930 signed Cobb notes/letters few and far between. Furthermore, its critical scandal related content places it as one of the more pertinent Ty Cobb signed notes extant. An historic offering of the immortal "Georgia Peach", it effectively turns back the clock to an ultra-sensitive era when our National Pastime was still recovering from the Black Sox fix, and most certainly would have unraveled had an additional baseball icon such as Tyrus Raymond Cobb shockingly joined "Shoeless" Joe as permanent outcasts! - PSA/DNA Encapsulated.

MIN BID $500
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