Ty Cobb by Charles C Alexander

Ty Cobb by Charles C Alexander

Probably the most volatile, fear-inspiring presence in baseball history, Ty Cobb was one of the most brilliant players in the game during his twenty-four-year career in the major leagues. Drawing on primary sources and personal interviews, Alexander brings Ty Cobb and his era vividly to life, showing the profound changes that took place in the sport of baseball during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.

ImpressiveA fascinating analysis of Cobb's personality. - The New York Times Alexander has performed that magical feat of creating Ty Cobb, warts and all. A wonderful, wonderful book. - Newsday Ty Cobb is a sociology of a time as well as a biography of the greatest and nastiest player of them all. - Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books Impeccably researched... reads like a novel. A fine book. - Lawrence Ritter, author of The Glory of Their Times Alexander's Ty Cobb is a great biography. - Mike Shannon, editor of Spitball

CHARLES C. ALEXANDER, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio University, has published several important works of American intellectual and cultural history in addition to his other acclaimed baseball books - John McGraw, Our Game: An American Baseball History, Rogers Hornsby: A Biography, and Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era. He is currently working on a biography of Tris Speaker for SMU Press.

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ISBN 13	9780870745096
ISBN 10	0870745093
Titel	Ty Cobb
Autor	Charles C Alexander
Serie	Sport In American Life
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-06-07
Seitenanzahl	288
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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