Herschel
I’ll never get to interview Ty Cobb, but his grandson Herschel is still around. He’s still got quite a few grandchildren around from what I understand, but Herschel was willing to talk to us. Now you can have Ruth, Gehrig, Johnson or even Mathewson. Sure, Wagner would’ve been cool to maybe ask about the whole t206 / tobacco controversy; and Shoeless Joe would make for a hell of a conversation on where his life was currently and what he still felt about the Black Sox scandal. But after that, my deepest curiosities about them are done. To me, Ty Cobb is a mythological figure. But to this guy, he was just this sweet old man. While I was enamoured with the countless stories and folklore behind the Georgia Peach, this was really just somebody’s grandfather. Now if you told me I could go back in time and interview Ty Cobb, I still wouldn’t believe you… I’d find it beyond surreal. Just to give you an idea, that’d be like saying, “would you like to interview Paul Bunyan?” It just do...