My Life in Baseball: The True Record"Highly successful in knitting together this story of the life of a most remarkable and dedicated player--perhaps the most spirited baseball player ever to have graced the diamond."--Library Journal. "I find little comfort in the popular picture of Cobb as a spike-slashing demon of the diamond with a wide streak of cruelty in his nature. The fights and feuds I was in have been steadily slanted to put me in the wrong. . . . My critics have had their innings. I will have mine now."--Ty Cobb "Frank, bitter, trend-setting autobiography."--USA Today Baseball Weekly "One of the most remarkable sports books ever written."--Los Angeles Daily News "The old Tiger still spits and snarls off the pages."--Cooperstown Review "Of Ty Cobb let it be said simply that he was the world's greatest ballplayer."--New York Herald Tribune (1961 editorial on Cobb's death) This Bison Book edition of My Life in Baseball is introduced by Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of a biogrpahy of Ty Cobb. |
Contents
Ty Cobb as I Knew Him by E A Batchelor | 9 |
Hits Errors and Heartache | 17 |
My Father Makes a Point | 32 |
Moment of DecisionHow I Almost Quit | 41 |
Pennant MadnessAnd a Boy Grows Up | 54 |
BugsThat First Bitter Series5000 or Bust | 71 |
In Which Many Things Came True | 82 |
Beanballs Were the Least of It | 92 |
But Being InLet Them Beware | 127 |
The Lost Science | 143 |
Make them Beat Themselves or Waging War on the Base Paths | 161 |
Away from the ParkA Wonderful World | 178 |
A Job I Didnt Want | 189 |
Sabotaged | 200 |
The Babe and I | 214 |
You Field with Your Head Too | 223 |
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