In the past, Yahoo! Sports has profiled the college baseball player by the name of Joe DiMaggio and shone a spotlight on a tyke-sized third baseman named Brooks Robinson in last year's Little League World Series.
Now it's come to our attention (via NotGraphs) that there's a college basketball player named Ty Cobb.
And unlike our two previous cases, he's actually related to his baseball legend namesake.
Yes, the Ty Cobb who's a 6-foot-5 freshman forward at Occidental College in Los Angeles is the great grandson of the Detroit Tigers' Hall of Famer.
Cobb, who says "his heart wasn't into" baseball, says he's being met with a new round of comments and questions since he entered college with the "good conversation piece."
"It's kind of a double-edged sword," Occidental's Cobb said of his name (he doesn't share a middle name with his great grandfather). "Sometimes it's cool. But sometimes I get a lot of unfair comments. Some people will say that Ty Cobb was a bad guy and he was a racist. I always have to explain to them that's not true."
Cobb is averaging 3.1 points and 2.9 rebounds a game as a bench player for Occidental, but the article doesn't say what defense he uses for people who roll out the usual stories about Cobb being the cleat-flashing racist.
For that matter, nor does he explain why his great grandfather thought it'd be OK to use Lefty O'Doul's face for a golf tee in a picture I found while trying to illustrate this post.
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