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Cobb: A Biography

by Al Stump



  • Bookseller: Spirit Tomes and Treasures US (US)
  • Seller Inventory #: 000519
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Near Fine
  • Jacket condition: Near Fine Minus
  • Edition: Third Printing
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0945575645
  • ISBN 13: 9780945575641
  • Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
  • Place: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  • Date published: 1994
  • Size: 6.25 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches
  • Weight: 1.75 pounds

Description

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 1994 Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball. The most shrewd, inventive, lurid, detested, mysterious, and superb of all baseball players, if a miserable psychopathic failure as a human being. Illustrated with 20 photographs. A detailed and unblinking look at the darker side of Cobb's life. NF/NF- Quarter-bound blue/dark blue hardcover with gilt on spine. Slightest edgesoiling on page/cover edges and front endpage. DJ has edge yellowing and on dampstain on bottom front edge. Small rip on top backstrip. Intro by Jimmie Reese. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.





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Book summary

Al Stump spent a year with the dying Ty Cobb as ghostwriter of the baseball player's autobiography. The inspiration for the movie "Cobb", this book has remained a sports classic.


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