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Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes with this gripping look at a man who walked the line between greatness and psychosis. Based on Stump's interviews with Ty Cobb while ghostwriting the Hall-of-Famer's 1961 autobiography, this award-winning new account of Cobb's life and times reveals both the darkness and the brilliance of the "Georgia Peach."
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The grandson of the legendary baseball player reveals another side of “a fascinating, severely flawed sports icon” (Booklist).
Ty Cobb’s grandson Herschel saw a side of him that very few others did. While baseball fans were familiar with Cobb’s infamously cold, competitive nature—and his relationship with his own children was deeply difficult—Cobb, in his later years, embraced the...
Ty Cobb’s grandson Herschel saw a side of him that very few others did. While baseball fans were familiar with Cobb’s infamously cold, competitive nature—and his relationship with his own children was deeply difficult—Cobb, in his later years, embraced the...
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Home run kid series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Sylvester improves his baseball skills while being coached by a man who bears a striking resemblance to baseball great Ty Cobb
6) Cobb
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Hired to write Ty Cobb's biography, sportswriter Al Stump discovers just how dark the baseball legend's story really is
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Simon & Schuster
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2015.
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English
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"Finally-- a fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb. 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...
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