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Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit (Great Lakes Books Series)

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The period from 1920 throughout the early post-World War II years remains the best within the long history of the Detroit Tigers Baseball Club. Between 1920 and 1950 the club won four pennants and two World Series, placed second seven times, and frequently fielded exciting, competitive teams.

Richard Bak spent ten years recording the life stories of just about two dozen Tigers players from Detroit’s “golden age.” There was once no pattern to how life had treated them since their playing days-some had stayed within the game as broadcasters or scouts; others had slipped into quiet anonymity as milkmen or machine repairmen. Bak retains the flavour of each and every man’s speech and the integrity of his character. Players’ interviews are prefaced with a short history of the parallel paths the town and professional baseball took from the tip of World War I throughout the early 1950s.

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