A Review of Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, by Charles Leerhsen, (Simon & Schuster, 2015).
Baseball fans familiar with major league records remember Ty Cobb for his .366 lifetime batting average during the dead-ball era. Some may even remember that he held more than 90 baseball records.
During his career, Cobb was the idol of millions of fans and received bushels of letters asking advice about how children could get into the game and other baseball-related questions. He answered most letters and sometimes sent a pamphlet with pointers in it or a picture. When someone asked for his autograph, he invariably said how flattered he felt.
More @ The Abbeville Institute
still a fan. Cobb was an artiste at flailing and flensing the guy waiting on the bag with the ball. they defenders had a choice: stand your ground and get cleats in the face or move.
ReplyDelete:) and thanks.
Delete