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Author : Richard Bak
Publisher : Taylor Publishing Company (TX)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ty Cobb written by Richard Bak and published by Taylor Publishing Company (TX). This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norm Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980562894
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of Ty Cobb written by Norm Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Times of Ty Cobb is a fascinating and authoritative biography written by an actor who has portrayed Cobb on stages across the United States and Canada. Cobb was one of the most controversial players in baseball history. Many baseball experts call Ty one of the greatest players who ever lived. His lifetime batting average of .367 is still the highest of all time. When he retired in 1928, after twenty-two years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he held more than ninety records. Numbers don't tell half of Cobb's tale. The Georgia Peach was by far the most thrilling player of the era: "Ty Cobb could cause more excitement with a base on balls than Babe Ruth could with a grand slam," one columnist wrote. When the Hall of Fame began in 1936, Cobb was the first player voted in. Babe Ruth finished second. Cobb was a complex, misunderstood man and one of the game's most controversial characters. He got in fights, on and off the field, and was often accused of being overly aggressive. His supporters acknowledged that he was a fierce and fiery competitor. Because his philosophy was to "create a mental hazard for the other man," despite his enemies, he was also widely admired. He was a friend of presidents from William H. Taft to Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was baseball's first millionaire and one of the first to endorse corporate products and make a Hollywood movie. After his death in 1961, something strange happened. His reputation morphed into that of a virulent racist who sharpened his spikes, a monster who attacked infielders and catchers. Books and films were full of myths, lies and uncorroborated stories. How did this happen? Who is the real Ty Cobb? Setting the record straight, actor and author Norm Coleman became the debunker of the myths and lies told about Ty. Coleman researched the life of the shy son of a professor and state senator from Georgia, who was progressive on race for his time and later became America's first true American sports celebrity. In the process, he tells of a life overflowing with stories of the men he knew: Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and many others. Coleman calls Cobb, "The Picasso of his time. Like Frank Sinatra, he did it his way." He writes of the man we thought we knew but really didn't.
Author : Charles Leerhsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451645767
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Ty Cobb written by Charles Leerhsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An biography of perhaps the most significant and controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb, drawing in part on newly discovered letters and documents"--
Author : Dan Holmes
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313328692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Ty Cobb written by Dan Holmes and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles Detroit Tiger star who was one of the greatest baseball players in history.
Author : Ty Cobb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803263598
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (635 download)
Download or read book My Life in Baseball written by Ty Cobb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highly successful in knitting together this story of the life of a most remarkable and dedicated player--perhaps the most spirited baseball player ever to have graced the diamond."--Library Journal. "I find little comfort in the popular picture of Cobb as a spike-slashing demon of the diamond with a wide streak of cruelty in his nature. The fights and feuds I was in have been steadily slanted to put me in the wrong. . . . My critics have had their innings. I will have mine now."--Ty Cobb "Frank, bitter, trend-setting autobiography."--USA Today Baseball Weekly "One of the most remarkable sports books ever written."--Los Angeles Daily News "The old Tiger still spits and snarls off the pages."--Cooperstown Review "Of Ty Cobb let it be said simply that he was the world's greatest ballplayer."--New York Herald Tribune (1961 editorial on Cobb's death) This Bison Book edition of My Life in Baseball is introduced by Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of a biogrpahy of Ty Cobb.
Author : Al Stump
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 156512717X
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Download or read book Cobb written by Al Stump and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 1996-01-03 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes with this gripping look at a man who walked the line between greatness and psychosis. Based on Stump's interviews with Ty Cobb while ghostwriting the Hall-of-Famer's 1961 autobiography, this award-winning new account of Cobb's life and times reveals both the darkness and the brilliance of the "Georgia Peach." "The most powerful baseball biography I have read."--Roger Kahn, author of THE BOYS OF SUMMER
Author : Ty Cobb
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486471837
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book My Twenty Years in Baseball written by Ty Cobb and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cobb personally wrote the story of his life for a newspaper syndicate after his 20 record-setting years in baseball. This illustrated edition is the first commercial publication of his words in book form.
Author : Herschel Cobb
Publisher : ECW/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1770903828
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Heart of a Tiger written by Herschel Cobb and published by ECW/ORIM. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grandson of the legendary baseball player reveals another side of “a fascinating, severely flawed sports icon” (Booklist). Ty Cobb’s grandson Herschel saw a side of him that very few others did. While baseball fans were familiar with Cobb’s infamously cold, competitive nature—and his relationship with his own children was deeply difficult—Cobb, in his later years, embraced the opportunity to form a loving bond with his grandchildren during their summertime visits. In this moving memoir, Herschel Cobb reveals how his grandfather, after the devastating loss of two sons, shared his gentler side with Herschel and his siblings. Herschel’s own parents, a cruel, abusive father and an adulterous, alcoholic mother, filled his childhood with turmoil. But “Granddaddy” offered the stability, love, and guidance that Herschel desperately needed. “Elegantly written and genuinely moving,” this story of their relationship presents a unique perspective on this larger-than-life man (Publishers Weekly). “An unforgettable story . . . that will alter how you feel about baseball’s most demonized star.” —Tom Stanton, author of Ty and the Babe
Author : Charles C. Alexander
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195035988
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Ty Cobb written by Charles C. Alexander and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1985-05-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ty Cobb was one of the most famous baseball players who every lived. The author puts Cobb into the context of his times, describing the very different game on the field then, and successfully probes Cobb's complex personality.
Author : Steven Elliott Tripp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442251921
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood written by Steven Elliott Tripp and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ty Cobb called baseball a “red-blooded game for red-blooded men,” warning that “molly coddles had better stay out.” By this, Cobb meant that baseball was the ultimate expression of the masculine ideal – a game of aggression, rivalry, physical and mental dexterity, self-reliance, and primal honor. For over twenty years, Cobb expressed his fierce brand of manhood in ballparks throughout the American Northeast, gaining for himself a level of celebrity that was unsurpassed in the early twentieth century. Fans idolized Cobb not only because he was the best player in the game, but because his boisterous and combative style of play satisfied their desire for exhibitions of visceral manhood. They found in Cobb an antidote for what they feared were the corrupting influences of over-civilization. With balance, precision, and empathy, Steven Elliott Tripp brings the era to life in a narrative Publisher’s Weekly has called “stunning.” In contrast to recent biographies of Cobb that have tried to minimize his more brutish behavior and minimize his racial antipathies, Tripp contextualizes Cobb, placing him squarely within the cultural milieu of both the rural South of his birth and the Northern sporting culture of his professional career. Moreover, Tripp’s reconstruction of early twentieth-century sporting culture isolates an important source of modern America’s culture of hyper-masculinity. Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood is both an important work of social and cultural history and an absorbing tale of ambition and the quest for dominance. Tripp has written the rare narrative that is as appealing to scholars as it is to general readers and sports enthusiasts.
Author : Howard W. Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972557443
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Ty Cobb Unleashed written by Howard W. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was or was not Ty Cobb a racist? For three years, there has been an unresolved standoff between two 2015 biographies of the Hall of Fame player. One of the two, as of March 2018, was in the top 25 of baseball bestsellers on Amazon.com: the paperback version of Charles Leerhsen's Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty (Simon & Schuster). That book has been publicized well. A five-minute video that Leerhsen commissioned for 2017, as an exclusive to the Web site of conservative commentator Dennis Prager (https://www.prageru.com/videos/calling-good-people-racist-isnt-new-case-ty-cobb), has had around 3.5 million views, according to the link above. Although the paperback edition was issued in early 2016, the conservative news Web site the Federalist named it one of its notable books of 2017 (http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/15/the-federalists-notable-books-of-2017/). The other 2015 Cobb biography is Tim Hornbaker's War on the Basepaths: The Definitive Biography of Ty Cobb (Sports Publishing). One major subsequent try has been made to weigh in on Cobb and his alleged racism: Steven Elliott Tripp's 2016 Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood: A Red-Blooded Sport for Red-Blooded Men (Rowman & Littlefield). Tripp's book, while a worthy scholarly work, did not explicitly try to reconcile Leerhsen and Hornbaker. Howard W. Rosenberg is the definitive biographer of 19th-century Hall of Famer Cap Anson. That includes being the horse's mouth on Anson's racism (https://howardwrosenberg.atavist.com/racism-bbhistory), especially its alleged impact on the drawing of the sport's "color line" in the 19th century. In Ty Cobb Unleashed, he applies a similar comprehensive approach to Cobb, who is considered among whites the most disliked star white player of pre-steroid times. For weighing in on the two 2015 books, an effort that also includes redoing big parts of the Cobb story, Ty Cobb Unleashed may be among the most impactful baseball books in recent memory. Most previous books are not worth revisiting with the closest of scrutiny. But the two Cobb ones no doubt are, especially because, in media coverage, Leerhsen's more revisionist one has so dominated the other.
Author : Mark S. Halfon
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346499
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Tales from the Deadball Era written by Mark S. Halfon and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deadball Era (1901û1920) is a baseball fanÆs dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of excitement, anticipation, and concern for all who entered the confines of a major league ballpark. Cheating for the sake of victory earned respect, corrupt ballplayers fixed games with impunity, and violence plagued the sport. Spectators stormed the field to attack players and umpires, ballplayers charged the stands to pummel hecklers, and physical battles between opposing clubs occurred regularly in a phenomenon known as ôrowdyism.ö At the same time, endearing practices infused baseball with lightheartedness, kindness, and laughter. Fans ran onto the field with baskets of flowers, loving cups, diamond jewelry, gold watches, and cash for their favorite players in the middle of games. Ballplayers volunteered for ôbenefit contestsö to aid fellow big leaguers and the country in times of need. ôJoke gamesö reduced sport to pure theater as outfielders intentionally dropped fly balls, infielders happily booted easy grounders, hurlers tossed soft pitches over the middle of the plate, and umpires ignored the rules. Winning meant nothing, amusement meant everything, and league officials looked the other way. Mark Halfon looks at life in the major leagues in the early 1900s, the careers of John McGraw, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson, and the events that brought about the end of the Deadball Era. He highlights the strategies, underhanded tactics, and bitter battles that defined this storied time in baseball history, while providing detailed insights into the players and teams involved in bringing to a conclusion this remarkable period in baseball history.
Author : Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Busting 'em written by Tyrus Raymond Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence S. Ritter
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062309617
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Glory of Their Times written by Lawrence S. Ritter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Easily the best baseball book ever produced by anyone.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer “This was the best baseball book published in 1966, it is the best baseball book of its kind now, and, if it is reissued in 10 years, it will be the best baseball book.” — People From Lawrence Ritter, co-author of The Image of Their Greatness and The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time, comes one of the bestselling, most acclaimed sports books of all time. Baseball was different in earlier days—tougher, more raw, more intimate—when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the bases. In the monumental classic The Glory of Their Times, the golden era of our national pastime comes alive through the vibrant words of those who played and lived the game. It is a book every baseball fan should read!
Author : Lee Blessing
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822202240
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Cobb written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The character of controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb is split into three differently aged versions of himself: The Peach, aged nineteen, at the beginning of his long career with the Detroit Tigers; Ty, in his early forties, at the end
Author : S. A. Kramer
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307800245
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book TY COBB written by S. A. Kramer and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran sports writer S. A. Kramer recounts the on-the-field triumphs and off-the-field troubles of the tormented "Georgia Peach," perhaps the most hated man ever to play baseball.
Author : Don Rhodes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 146174590X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Ty Cobb written by Don Rhodes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distantly related to a Confederate general, Ty Cobb was a strapping Augusta youth who became a star for the Detroit Tigers. Long revered as a great hitter and an incredibly fast baserunner, Cobb often has been remembered as a hated athlete, a bitter man who died nearly 50 years ago. No biographer has explored the complex personality as deeply and meticulously as Don Rhodes in his new comprehensive biography. Rhodes reveals the man as Cobb was in Augusta: in the off season and as a retiree. For the first time, a biographer includes interviews with Cobb's two daughters (whom Rhodes met before they died), his granddaughter, and close friends, who offer insight and photos of Cobb's private life never seen before. Many of Cobb's emotional troubles started early in life, and no doubt were compounded during his early seasons with the Tigers, when his mother went on trial for murdering his father. The ugly side of this phenomenal athlete is not defended or explained away, but readers learn to better understand a man who seemed so miserable, when he had so much. Don Rhodes is an editor at Morris Communications in Augusta. He has written “Ramblin' Rhodes,” a music column, for more than 37 years, and his byline appears in many magazines and newspapers. He lives in North Augusta, South Carolina.
