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During his 24-season job, Ty Cobb was an MVP, a Triple Crown-winner, and a 12-time batting champion and was elected in the inaugural ballot for the National Football Hall of Popularity (along with Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson). As a person who retired from the overall game over 85 years back, he's still the first choice for job batting average; second in goes, visits, and triples; and a mainstay in dozens of other categories. However, when most people think of "The Georgia Peach", they're reminded of his reputation as a "dirty" player. It was said that he acquired so many of his steals because he would sharpen his material cleats and "spike" the second basemen if they would make an effort to label him out. It's also said that he was rude, awful, a racist, and hated by peers and the press likewise. As author Tim Hornbaker have for Charles Comiskey in Turning the Black Sox White, Battle on the Basepaths can be an unbiased biography of one of the greatest players ever to grace a football diamond. Predicated on detailed research and evaluation, Tim Hornbaker supplies the full history of Cobb's life and job, some of which has been altered for nearly a hundred years. While he retired in 1928 and passed away in 1961, Battle on the Basepaths will show how Ty Cobb really was and place listeners in the pack chairs of his incredible life.
