My Life in Baseball The True Record

Name: My Life in Baseball The True Record
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ISBN: 9780803263598

ISBN-10: 0803263597

ISBN-13: 9780803263598

Edition: 1993 (Reprint)

Authors: Ty Cobb, Al Stump, Charles C. Alexander

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"Highly successful in knitting together this story of the life of a most remarkable and dedicated player-perhaps the most spirited baseball player ever to have graced the diamond."-Library Journal."I find little comfort in the popular picture of Cobb as a spike-slashing demon of the diamond with a wide streak of cruelty in his nature. The fights and feuds I was in have been steadily slanted to put me in the wrong. . . . My critics have had their innings. I will have mine now."--Ty Cobb"Frank, bitter, trend-setting autobiography."--USA Today Baseball Weekly"One of the most remarkable sports books ever written."--Los Angeles Daily News"The old Tiger still spits and snarls off the…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 315
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction


Ty Cobb as I Knew Him



First Inning: Hits, Errors, and Heartache



My Father Makes a Point



Moment of Decision- How I Almost Quit



Pennant Madness- and a Boy Grows Up



"Bugs"-that First Bitter Series- $5000 or Bust



In Which Many Things Came True



Beanballs Were the Least of It



The Case of the Purloined Telegrams



"Beware of Entrance to a Quarrel"



"But Being In-let Them Beware!"



Batting: the Lost Science



The Ultimate Secret: Make Them Beat Themselves or Waging War on the Base Paths



Away from the Park- a Wonderful World



A Whiff of Gas: a Job I Didn't Want



Sabotaged



The Babe and I



You Field with Your Head Too



A Year of Agony: the Frame-Up That Failed



Vindication with Mr. Mack



Peace at Last



The Greatest in the Game- as I Knew Them



A Perilous Moment for the Pastime



"To Plant One Rose-"