Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump Paperback Book

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Rent Cobb: A Biography

Author: Al Stump

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Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published: Dec 1969

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Sports - Baseball

Retail Price: $21.99

Pages: 464

Synopsis

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

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