Cobb: a biography

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Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- THE LIFETIME RECORD OF TY COBB -- 1. EXTRA INNINGS -- 2. "FIRE IN MY BELLY" -- 3. WALKING THE TIGHTROPE -- 4. LOW COMEDY IN THE BUSHES -- 5. FOR SALE, ONE REBEL KID, 25 -- 6. SHOTGUN BLASTS -- 7. BITTER TIMES -- 8. PILGRIM WITH A PANCAKE GLOVE -- 9. "A HANDFUL OF HELL" -- 10. MISSING PERSON -- 11. INTIMIDATOR -- 12. OUTLAW AND PUBLIC ENEMY -- 13. THE GREATEST PLAYER WHO EVER LIVED -- 14. BATTLE AT HILLTOP PARK -- 15. A NEW LEAGUE -- 16. EMERGENCE OF A MILLIONAIRE -- 17. UNRECONSTRUCTED OUTLAW.;A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes with this gripping look at a man who walked the line between greatness and psychosis. Based on Stump's interviews with Ty Cobb while ghostwriting the Hall-of-Famer's 1961 autobiography, this award-winning new account of Cobb's life and times reveals both the darkness and the brilliance of the "Georgia Peach." "The most powerful baseball biography I have read."--Roger Kahn, author of THE BOYS OF SUMMER.