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My life in baseball : the true record / by Ty Cobb, with Al Stump ; introduction to the Bison book edition by Charles C. Alexander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961, author.
- Stump, Al, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961.
- Cobb, Ty.
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (480 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [1993]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Highly successful in knitting together this story of the life of a most remarkable and dedicated player-perhaps the most spirited baseball player ever to have graced the diamond.""-Library Journal
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Introduction; Contents; Ty Cobb as I Knew Him by E. A. Batchelor; Chapter 1: First Inning: Hits, Errors, and Heartache; Chapter 2: My Father Makes a Point; Chapter 3: Moment of Decision-How I Almost Quit; Chapter 4: Pennant Madness-And a Boy Grows Up; Chapter 5: "Bugs"-That First Bitter Series-5000 or Bust; Chapter 6: In Which Many Things Came True; Chapter 7: Beanballs Were the Least of It; Chapter 8: The Case of the Purloined Telegrams; Chapter 9: "Beware of Entrance to a Quarrel"; Chapter 10: "But Being In-Let Them Beware!"
- Chapter 11: Batting: The Lost ScienceChapter 12: The Ultimate Secret: Make them Beat Themselves or Waging War on the Base Paths; Chapter 13: Away from the Park-A Wonderful World; Chapter 14: A Whiff of Gas: A Job I Didn't Want; Chapter 15: Sabotaged; Chapter 16: The Babe and I; Chapter 17: You Field with Your Head Too; Chapter 18: A Year of Agony: The Frame-Up That Failed; Chapter 19: Vindication with Mr. Mack; Chapter 20: Peace at Last; Chapter 21: The Greatest in the Game-As I Knew Them; Chapter 22: A Perilous Moment for the Pastime; Chapter 23: "To Plant One Rose-"; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1961.
- "A Bison book."
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8032-6374-0
- 0-8032-6511-5
- 0-585-31060-2
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