Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
by Leerhsen, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1451645767
- ISBN 13
- 9781451645767
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NY: Simon & Schuster, 2015. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 449 pages, b&w illustrations. Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player who ever lived. His lifetime batting average is still the highest of all time, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he held more than ninety records. But the 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, he was the first player voted in.But Cobb was also one of the game’s most controversial characters. He got in a lot of fights, on and off the field, and was often accused of being overly aggressive. In his day, even his supporters acknowledged that he was a fierce and fiery competitor. Because his philosophy was to “create a mental hazard for the other man,” he had his enemies, but he was also widely admired. After his death in 1961, however, something strange happened: his reputation morphed into that of a monster—a virulent racist who also hated children and women, and was in turn hated by his peers. Clean copy. Record # 382561
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 382561
- Title
- Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
- Author
- Leerhsen, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1451645767
- ISBN 13
- 9781451645767
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- Sports, Baseball, , .
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