Ty Cobb : a terrible beauty

Resource Information

The work Ty Cobb : a terrible beauty represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jay County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.

Label

Ty Cobb : a terrible beauty

Title remainder

a terrible beauty

Statement of responsibility

Charles Leerhsen

Creator

• trueLeerhsen, Charles
• Leerhsen, Charles

Subject

• Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961
• Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
• trueCobb, Ty, 1886-1961
• trueAdult books for young adults
• trueSports and competition -- Baseball
• trueBiographies
• trueLife stories -- Sports | Athletes
• trueBaseball
• trueBaseball players -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• trueBiographies
• trueBiography
• trueAdult books for young adults
• trueSports and competition
• trueLife stories

Language

eng

Summary

A fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb—“The best work ever written on this American sports legend: It’s a major reconsideration of a reputation unfairly maligned for decades” (The Boston Globe). Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player ever. His lifetime batting average is still the highest in history, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he held more than ninety records. But the numbers don’t tell half of Cobb’s tale. The Georgia Peach was by far the most thrilling player of the era: When the Hall of Fame began in 1936, he was the first player voted in. But Cobb was also one of the game’s most controversial characters. He got in a lot of fights, on and off the field, and was often accused of being overly aggressive. Even his supporters acknowledged that he was a fierce competitor, but he was also widely admired. After his death in 1961, however, his reputation morphed into that of a virulent racist who also hated children and women, and was in turn hated by his peers. How did this happen? Who is the real Ty Cobb? Setting the record straight, Charles Leerhsen pushed aside the myths, traveled to Georgia and Detroit, and re-traced Cobb’s journey from the shy son of a professor and state senator who was progressive on race for his time to America’s first true sports celebrity. The result is a “noble [and] convincing” (The New York Times Book Review) biography that is “groundbreaking, thorough, and compelling

Award

School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2015.

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 796.357092
• 920

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

1400

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult