I have been n avid baseball fan my entire life. I have found the audiobooks on Ty Cobb to be very interesting.

I had the displeasure of taking Dr. Alexander's baseball history class in college. By displeasure I mean what everyone thought was going to be a blowoff class turned out to be a rigorous history course. But it turned out to be an invaluable experience, and I took another course with him later on.

This novel is full of material we now know to be false. Charles Leerhsen's book "A Terrible Beauty" is painstakingly researched and presents a much more accurate and interesting Cobb. For serious baseball history fans it is highly recommended.

Cobb Incredible Player.😎

Cobb-One Of A Kind.

Simply the greatest ever

The detail in this is extremely good! For example, I like that he mentions about the crowds and how this had an effect on keeping the fences deep so they could have more standing room space for fans.

Starts for me in center on my all time team.

Bryant Cranson could play Ty in a movie about Lou Grehig and show him as he really was as a brittle but still kind person.

Nice!

Fascinatingly, Cobb said in a rare interview, that he “worked at baseball that baseball stole his life.” This is probably as true today as it was then. The truth is he probably did work harder than any other player, but sadly probably enjoyed it less.

It read this when it was new. Great read, and gave me much better appreciation of what a great player he was. He was a tough guy, but it was a tough environment--he was like Teddy Roosevelt on the ballfield--and his monstrous reputation is overblown. But it sounds like he was driven by a demon that made him relentlessly competitive: sorta like Tiger Woods. Both with big father problems. He won the batting crown 12 times, and was second three times, once with .401. Past 40, he still hit .323 his last season. I guess the latest book is even better in debunking the most damaging myths. Alexander also wrote one about Hornsby that I read. Great player, boring person.

Now that Cobb,he could play.

WHAT A PLAYER!

At about 2:00 hrs. in, l calcamalated his first year contract against games. He made a whopping $9.74 a game. But, l reckon a meal wasn't that much and a series long hotel fare weren't too bad. Yeah,l know l spelt calculated wrong. Popeye popped into my head,so l just threw his pronunciation into the mix. Ol" Ty and myself more than likely would have got along purty good. Seeing that we're both Southerners, he may have thought my Texas twang was a tad strong. I haven't ever had too much for a yankee, nor their way of thinking.

I actually read this. Now I wonder if any of it is true.

Many have said that Wayne Grezsky , of hockey was the best, but that he didn't have the most natural ability.

Was Jimmy Fox also called Nellie Fox? The late sports talk radio guy was fond of a Fox player.

He looks like Eminem's father

He was extremely lucky that someone did nt put a bat upside his head . You cant just be judged by you re talent or God given ability alone , it s how you live you re life and how you treat others , especially when you re in the public eye and fan s look up to you .

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Brett Favre had retired and unretired or at least threatened to retire a # of times.

This guy sounds like a robot

this book was a rehash of stump's book , pure lying fiction . none of it based on real research , and facts .

Although it's subjective, it seems that it was widely stated that Willie Mays was the best all around baseball player. Babe Ruth was a good pitcher as well s other position or positions. Click my name to get my boxing videos commentaries.

Lies! Lies! All LIES! 👈😡