Oct 11, 2020
4 min read
Trash-Talking Catcher Lou Criger’s Attack on Ty Cobb
The veteran backstop took none to kindly to baseball’s emerging star back in the day
Trash talking in baseball is not a recent development, as big-league players have enjoyed sniping at each other for years. An early example was catcher Lou Criger, who came out swinging in the press more than a century ago about his…
