Probably the most volatile, fear-inspiring presence in baseball 
history, Ty Cobb was one of the most brilliant players in the 
game during his twenty-four-year career in the major leagues. 
Drawing on primary sources and personal interviews, Alexander 
brings Ty Cobb and his era vividly to life, showing the profound 
changes that took place in the sport of baseball during the 
tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.


"Impressive. A fascinating analysis of Cobb's personality."
—The New York Times

"Alexander has performed that magical feat of creating Ty 
Cobb, warts and all. A wonderful, wonderful book."—Newsday

"Ty Cobb is a sociology of a time as well as a biography of 
the greatest and nastiest player of them all."—Stephen Jay 
Gould, The New York Review of Books

"Impeccably researched . . . reads like a novel. A fine book."
—Lawrence Ritter, author of The Glory of Their Times

Originally published by Oxford University Press in 1984. 

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CHARLES C. ALEXANDER, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of 
History at Ohio University, has published several important works 
of American intellectual and cultural history in addition to his other 
acclaimed baseball books—John McGraw, Our Game: An 
American Baseball History, Rogers Hornsby: A Biography, and 
Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era. He is 
currently working on a biography of Tris Speaker for SMU Press.


Sport in American Life, C. Paul Rogers III, series editor