[PDF] Ty Cobb eBook

Author : Charles Leerhsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451645767

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"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 : Herschel Cobb
Publisher : ECW/ORIM
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1770903828

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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 : Ty Cobb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803263598

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"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 : Ty Cobb
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0486471837

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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 : S. A. Kramer
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0307800245

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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 : Charles C. Alexander
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 1985-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195035988

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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 : Dan Holmes
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313328692

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Profiles Detroit Tiger star who was one of the greatest baseball players in history.

Author : Steven Elliott Tripp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1442251921

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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.