Item description for Baseball Legends Ty Cobb Hardcover Book by Norman Macht Jim Murray, Earl Weaver

This listing is for Baseball Legends: Ty Cobb Hardcover Book by Norman L. Macht, Jim Murray, Earl Weaver.

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (January 1, 1992)

Language: English

Hardcover Binding: 64 pages

ISBN-10: 0791011720

ISBN-13: 978-0791011720

Reading age: 9 - 12 years

Grade level: 4 - 6

A look at baseball's all-time leaders in nearly every statistical category discusses his childhood, stellar career, his records, his personality, and more.

Ty Cobb was clearly the ﬁercest competitor of his time. Tremendously disliked by opposing players, he still commanded great respect From them—and For a very good reason. He was more Feared than any other hitter of his era. —-EARL WEAVER Ty Cobb was probably the greatest all-around player in baseball history. But because he always played to win at all costs, he was also called the dirtiest, meanest, most hated man who ever wore spikes. Cobb was born in rural Georgia in 1886 and was a terror from an early age. Stubborn and hot-tempered, he could not stand to lose at anything. Baseball proved to be a natural outlet for his competitive spirit. From the moment the “Georgia Peach” joined the Detroit Tigers in 1905, he drove himself without letup and made everybody else crazy trying to stop him. Almost no one could. At the plate, on the basepaths, and in the outﬁeld, Cobb was like a one-man gang. He developed nine different ways to slide and studied pitchers, catchers, and fielders until he knew all their movements, habits, and facial expressions. By the time his career ended in 1928, he ranked as baseball's all-time leader in games played, at—bats. base hits, runs scored, runs batted in, stolen bases, and batting average. Playing ball as if it was “a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the ﬁttest,” Ty Cobb not only survived but thrived. In 1936, he received the most votes among the ﬁrst group of players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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