Ty Cobb by Charles C Alexander

Ty Cobb by Charles C Alexander

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

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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
Title Ty Cobb
Author Charles C Alexander
Series Sport In American Life
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
Year published 2006-06-07
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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