Ty Cobb - Not a Cheating Bigot or Dirty Player - new biography

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by calvindog

This obviously will come as a shock to you but are you aware that different standards existed in different eras?

Well said, Jeff.

What has to be realized here is that 40 years after the Civil War ended....it really didn't end in many American's minds. Circa 1905 - 1908,
when the careers of guys like Cobb and Joe Jackson started, there were very few BB players from the "deep South". And, it wasn't easy at
the beginning for them to fit in.

Hey guys....after reading all these books on Cobb that have been written by guys who have an "agenda", try reading TY AND THE BABE.
Tom Stanton provides a fair and very interesting take on Cobb (especially Cobb's rivalry with the Babe....when Ruth pitched for Boston).

I'll not reveal anymore, but it's a great story on these two legends of Baseball, during their playing years and after. The Appendix is about
Ty Cobb versus Babe Ruth, Game by Game. It's fascinating to read the details of approx. 200 games that Cobb and Ruth played in from
May 11, 1915 > Sept 11, 1927.







TED Z
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[calvindog]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Hey guys....after reading all these books on Cobb that have been written by guys who have an "agenda", try reading TY AND THE BABE.
Tom Stanton provides a fair and very interesting take on Cobb (especially Cobb's rivalry with the Babe....when Ruth pitched for Boston).





TED Z
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Ted, I loved this book as well. I've read just about all the major bios on Cobb and will read the Leerhsen and Tim Hornbaker (War on the Basepaths) books which just came out.

[Orioles1954]

Jeff and others--

Probably one of the neatest projects I've had in the auction industry was reviewing the dozens of letters penned between Ty Cobb and Helene Champlain ranging over five decades from the 1910s through the 1950s. I'm not sure how Cobb and Champlain met and if there was "something more" to their relationship, but the letters were hardly dripping with sexual tension. What's more is that they were entirely absent of racial rhetoric, the ramblings of a psychotic mad man or even one mention of baseball. In short, they were really interesting book reviews with other personal anecdotes interspersed. In short, it helped me understand the depth of Cobb in greater detail....an astute and well-read business man who loved the weather in both California and Nevada