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Finally - a remarkable and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball background, Ty Cobb. Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the best player who ever before lived. His life time batting average is still the highest of all time, so when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he presented more than ninety details. But the statistics don't tell half of Cobb's story. The Georgia Peach was the most fascinating player of the age: "Ty Cobb might lead to more excitement with basics on balls than Babe Ruth could with a grand slam," one columnist wrote. Once the Hall of Fame started out in 1936, he was the first player voted in. But Cobb was also one of the game's most controversial heroes. He received in a great deal of fights, on and off the field, and was often accused to be overly competitive. In his day, even his supporters recognized that he was a brutal and fiery competitor. Because his viewpoint was to "build a mental threat for the other man," he had his enemies, but he was also widely admired. After his loss of life in 1961, however, something bizarre occurred: his reputation morphed into that of a monster - a virulent racist who also hated children and women, and was in turn hated by his peers. How have this happen? Who's the real Ty Cobb? Setting up the record in a straight line, Charles Leerhsen pushed aside the misconceptions, traveled to Georgia and Detroit, and re-traced Cobb's trip, from the shy son of a professor and state senator who was simply progressive on race for his time, to America's first true athletics celebrity. Along the way, he explains to of a life filled with incident and a man who minimize his own route through his times - a man we thought we realized but really didn't.
