Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 9781451645798
- Book Title
- Ty Cobb : a Terrible Beauty
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Baseball / History, Baseball / General, Sports
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1451645791
ISBN-13
9781451645798
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224017746
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ty Cobb : a Terrible Beauty
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, Baseball / General, Sports
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-303816
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Not only the best work ever written on this American sports legend: It's a major reconsideration of a reputation unfairly maligned for decades., Superbly reported, wonderfully written and often quite funny, Charles Leerhsen's Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, is a highly enlightening and highly enjoyable book. A new Cobb emerges-many-faced and passionate-in this important, original view of a figure well installed in baseball lore. This is a first-rate book by a first-rate writer., Superbly reported, wonderfully written and often quite funny, Charles Leerhsen's Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, is a highly enlightening and highly enjoyable book. A new Cobb emerges--many-faced and passionate--in this important, original view of a figure well installed in baseball lore. This is a first-rate book by a first-rate writer., A clear-eyed portrayal of Cobb not as a tyrant and not as a saint. It showcases Cobb as a flawed and vulnerable human being who, after suffering a nervous breakdown his second season, came back to fearlessly embrace his talent in an era that was just discovering what it meant to love baseball., Leerhsen wraps his penetrating profile of Cobb in gripping play-by-play rundowns and a colorful portrait of the anarchic 'dead-ball' era, when players played drunk and fans chased offending umpires from the field. This is a stimulating evocation of baseball's rambunctious youth and the man who epitomized it., Surprise! It wasn't the Georgia Peach who was prejudiced (especially), it was us, against him. Leerhsen's feat of research brings the real Cobb home at last., Charles Leerhsen has done baseball aficionados a great mercy by bringing to life Ty Cobb, the man and the ballplayer--warts and all, some might say. . . . And even more, Leerhsen summons up the days when baseball was young and innocent and, one thinks, filled with a kind of raw vitality that is missing today. . . . They don't make them like that--or like Cobb--anymore. And the real Cobb is more compelling than the one of legend and film., Leerhsen's magisterial reexamination presents a detailed view of Cobb culled from actual research rather than hearsay. . . . Thanks to exhaustive research, we now have a more realistic and sympathetic view of Cobb. . . . This is an important work for baseball and American historians as Cobb was one of the country's first true superstars., Charles Leerhsen has done baseball aficionados a great mercy by bringing to life Ty Cobb, the man and the ballplayer-warts and all, some might say. . . . And even more, Leerhsen summons up the days when baseball was young and innocent and, one thinks, filled with a kind of raw vitality that is missing today. . . . They don't make them like that-or like Cobb-anymore. And the real Cobb is more compelling than the one of legend and film., No matter what you think of Ty Cobb, you'll want to read Charles Leerhsen's fascinating biography, as he dispels rumors, exposes frauds, and challenges everything you thought you knew about the most controversial individual ever to play the great game of baseball., Ground-breaking, thorough and compelling. . . . The most complete, well-researched and thorough treatment of Cobb that has ever been written., "Now Cobb has an advocate, one who's actually read all the old newspaper clippings (some of which flatly contradict common "knowledge"), visited the terrain, and interviewed as many relevant people as he could find. Cobb was indeed a bruised peach but, as the author shows convincingly, not a thoroughly rotten one."
Dewey Decimal
796.357092 B
Synopsis
A fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb--"The best work ever written on this American sports legend: It's a major reconsideration of a reputation unfairly maligned for decades" ( The Boston Globe ). Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player ever. His lifetime batting average is still the highest in history, 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: 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. Even his supporters acknowledged that he was a fierce competitor, but he was also widely admired. After his death in 1961, however, his reputation morphed into that of a virulent racist who also hated children and women, and was in turn hated by his peers. How did this happen? Who is the real Ty Cobb? Setting the record straight, Charles Leerhsen pushed aside the myths, traveled to Georgia and Detroit, and re-traced Cobb's journey from the shy son of a professor and state senator who was progressive on race for his time to America's first true sports celebrity. The result is a "noble and] convincing" ( The New York Times Book Review) biography that is "groundbreaking, thorough, and compelling...The most complete, well-researched, and thorough treatment that has ever been written" ( The Tampa Tribune )., A fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb--"The best work ever written on this American sports legend: It's a major reconsideration of a reputation unfairly maligned for decades" ( The Boston Globe ). Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player ever. His lifetime batting average is still the highest in history, 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: 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. Even his supporters acknowledged that he was a fierce competitor, but he was also widely admired. After his death in 1961, however, his reputation morphed into that of a virulent racist who also hated children and women, and was in turn hated by his peers. How did this happen? Who is the real Ty Cobb? Setting the record straight, Charles Leerhsen pushed aside the myths, traveled to Georgia and Detroit, and re-traced Cobb's journey from the shy son of a professor and state senator who was progressive on race for his time to America's first true sports celebrity. The result is a "noble [and] convincing" ( The New York Times Book Review) biography that is "groundbreaking, thorough, and compelling...The most complete, well-researched, and thorough treatment that has ever been written" ( The Tampa Tribune ).
LC Classification Number
GV865.C6L44 2016
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