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Title: My Life in Baseball: The True Record by Ty Cobb, Al Stump ISBN: 0-8032-6359-7 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If ya like Ty, you'll like his book
Comment: I was born in 1951 & read Cobb's autobio around 1961. My 1st baseball biography. I like it now as much as then. It's considered "in" today to cut it & Cobb up & call it "self-serving". Well, I've read hundreds of "autobio's" since & never come across one that isn't self-serving. Isn't that the point of writing your story? I find Cobb's book no more dishonest than any other. It's true value is to get you to think as a ballplayer & offer a window into his times, how they played the game. Whether or not you like his book depends on if you like him. And I do. I think he's the greatest player ever by a long shot. So did all the players from his & Ruth's time. Ruth ONLY wins the nod among those who never saw either one play. Although Ty was emotionally unbalanced, wrapped way too tight & was wired to go off at most anything, he also was the most honest guy, and also generous. He helped dozens of guys on other teams improve their hitting & play. I highly recommend Ty's book & also Stump's later Cobb bio. Together they're something else!!
Rating: 4
Summary: What Charles Alexander said on Al Stump's later Cobb works.
Comment: "For those who preferred to remember Cobb's good qualities and let his faults be buried with his physical remains, Stump's article was at best an exercise in poor taste, and at worst a severe injustice to a man who had done much for his hometown and substantial good otherwise. (Stump mislead readers in implying that he had been Cobb's companion nearly all the time, when in fact he had seen him only a few times during that "wild" ten-month period.")...Stump...made no efforts to check facts. Thus the book included a number of mistaken dates, places, people, and situations...Unable to do much sustained work with Cobb, Stump relied considerably on a seven-part biographical sketch published in 1950 in the Sporting News by H.G. Salsinger, longtime Detroit Baseball writer and one of Cobb's few real freinds, as well as Cobb's 1952 Life articles and a book put together three years later by Cobb and John D. McCallum, combining reminiscences with tips on how to play the game."
Rating: 4
Summary: Does he tell the truth?
Comment: I think that this book was very well-written. Cobb seems like a smart man who was ahead of his time when it came to baseball. He comes across as a very bitter guy though... of course Ty was in his 70s at the time and oldtimer athletes always seem that way. Complaining about how the game has changed to be horrible and such. Its always cool to get an insider look at pro sports and athletes tho , and while i feel he didn't always tell the whole truth, I think it was a good book overall. Especially if you are a baseball history dork like me. i give it 4 out of 5.
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Title: Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump ISBN: 1565121449 Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title:Cobb ASIN: B0000A02YH Publisher: Warner Home Video Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.98 |
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Title: Ty Cobb by Charles C. Alexander ISBN: 0195035984 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1985 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Tyrus: An American Legend by Patrick Creevy ISBN: 0765300141 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Mick by Mickey Mantle ISBN: 0515085995 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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