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Author
Series
Mickey Rawlings mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
A baseball player investigates the murder of a Red Sox player in the newly built baseball stadium in Fenway Park in Boston in 1912. A period piece that mixes police work with baseball politics of the time.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Hired to ghostwrite Cobb's autobiography in the last years of his life, Stump now tells the rest of the story--the story of a man wanted for attempted murder, who idolized Caesar and Napoleon, and who would go to incredible lengths to win.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Distantly related to a Confederate general, Ty Cobb was a strapping Augusta youth who became a star for the Detroit Tigers. Long revered as a great hitter and an incredibly fast baserunner, Cobb often has been remembered as a hated athlete, a bitter man who died nearly 50 years ago. No biographer has explored the complex personality as deeply and meticulously as Don Rhodes in his new comprehensive biography. Rhodes reveals the man as Cobb was in Augusta:...
4) Ty Cobb
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Ty Cobb was one of the most famous baseball players who every lived. The author puts Cobb into the context of his times, describing the very different game on the field then, and successfully probes Cobb's complex personality.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...