Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

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A fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb—“The most productive work ever written on this American sports legend: It’s a major reconsideration of a reputation unfairly maligned for decades” (The Boston Globe).

Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player ever. His lifetime batting average is still the highest in history, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he held more than ninety records. But the numbers don’t tell half of Cobb’s tale. The Georgia Peach was once by far the most thrilling player of the era: When the Hall of Fame began in 1936, he was once the first player voted in.

But Cobb was once also one of the crucial game’s most controversial characters. He got in numerous fights, off and on the field, and was once regularly accused of being overly aggressive. Even his supporters acknowledged that he was once a fierce competitor, but he was once also widely admired. After his death in 1961, on the other hand, his reputation morphed into that of a virulent racist who also hated children and women, and was once in turn hated by his peers.

How did this happen? Who is the real Ty Cobb? Setting the record straight, Charles Leerhsen pushed aside the myths, traveled to Georgia and Detroit, and re-traced Cobb’s journey from the shy son of a professor and state senator who was once progressive on race for his time to The us’s first true sports celebrity. The result is a “noble [and] convincing” (The New York Times Book Review) biography that may be “groundbreaking, thorough, and compelling…The most complete, well-researched, and thorough remedy that has ever been written” (The Tampa Tribune).

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