Ty Cobb

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Summary: It's All There In Black and White!
Review: What fact isn't missing! Charles Alexander pinpoints the essential Ty Cobb. The research involved must have been painstaking, but thorough. I have never come across a book that kept the pace going from beginning to end like this one. The only noticeable flaw is the size of the text font. It is a little too small for comfort and forces you to concentrate a little more than the content should allow. It is an excellent book! Anthony DeMedeiros, Toronto, Ontario

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Summary: Riveting from start to finish!
Review: What the average baseball fan hears or knows about Ty Cobb are his many records (stolen bases, hits, batting average)that he holds or has held at one time. What Charles Alexander's book reveals are the tumultuous circumstances that surrounded this simultaneous boyhood idol of many and despised bigot to others. No one would ever rightly dispute Ty's greatness as a baseball player. It was his behavior (or should I say misbehavior)on and off the field as a man that permeates the soul through Alexander's chronicles and leaves me with definite feelings of ambivalence toward "the Georgia Peach." While I wish that I could have seen him play ball during the dead-ball era (I am not nearly that old), I don't know if I would ever have wanted to cross paths with Ty in a dark lonely alley since he would probably view me as "another damn yankee."