One of the fascinating things you learn from studying history is how the story can change change given enough time to develop the facts. Once worshipped by Confederates developing the myth of the Lost Cause and still worshipped by today's Confederates, Robert E. Lee has fallen from his high high horse to the ground below where this monstrous traitor belongs. More than 500 years after Columbus sailed the ocean blue and FDR annointed Columbus Day Columbus has fallen into ill repute as his various crimes have finally become understood. In a less serious example, for decades Ty Cobb has been lauded as baseball's ultimate villian despite his performance on the field. Cobb did have is his bad side perhaps exaggerated, but ignored and still ignored is Rogers Hornsby, who hated everybody and everybody hated him. He played to win doing what he had to do and did not care what anybody thought about him and his tactics. He had no social graces and carried being "honest" to rude extremes. Somehow Cobb got the jump on him, but those of us steeped in baseball history that Hornsby was worse than Cobb.