My Life in Baseball

by Cobb, Ty

• ISBN13: 9780803263598
• ISBN10: 0803263597
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

"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 pages."--Cooperstown Review"Of Ty Cobb let it be said simply that he was the world's greatest ballplayer."--New York Herald Tribune (1961 editorial on Cobb's death)This Bison Book edition of My Life in Baseball is introduced by Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of a biogrpahy of Ty Cobb.

Author Biography

This Bison Book edition of My Life in Baseball is introduced by Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of a biogrpahy of Ty Cobb.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Ty Cobb as I Knew Him	p. 9
First Inning: Hits, Errors, and Heartache	p. 17
My Father Makes a Point	p. 32
Moment of Decision- How I Almost Quit	p. 41
Pennant Madness- and a Boy Grows Up	p. 54
"Bugs"-that First Bitter Series- $5000 or Bust	p. 71
In Which Many Things Came True	p. 82
Beanballs Were the Least of It	p. 92
The Case of the Purloined Telegrams	p. 103
"Beware of Entrance to a Quarrel"	p. 112
"But Being In-let Them Beware!"	p. 127
Batting: the Lost Science	p. 143
The Ultimate Secret: Make Them Beat Themselves or Waging War on the Base Paths	p. 161
Away from the Park- a Wonderful World	p. 178
A Whiff of Gas: a Job I Didn't Want	p. 189
Sabotaged	p. 200
The Babe and I	p. 214
You Field with Your Head Too	p. 223
A Year of Agony: the Frame-Up That Failed	p. 235
Vindication with Mr. Mack	p. 247
Peace at Last	p. 258
The Greatest in the Game- as I Knew Them	p. 262
A Perilous Moment for the Pastime	p. 273
"To Plant One Rose-"	p. 279
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