I haven't read WOTB, but I did just finish A Terrible Beauty, and really enjoyed it. It's definitely written with a certain slant - a repudiation of Stump and a rehabilitation of Cobb - but it's a very good read. It had a lot of very good insight, and includes some interesting research that shows that many of the horror stories about Cobb cannot have been true. It was a good mix of biography and baseball storytelling.
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