My Life in Baseball: The True Record

by Ty Cobb, Al Stump, Charles C. Alexander

Overview

"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. Introduction by Charles C. Alexander.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803263598
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	01/28/1993
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	315
Sales rank:	218,615
Product dimensions:	7.94(w) x 10.92(h) x 0.72(d)
Lexile:	1040L (what's this?)

About the Author

This Bison Book edition of My Life in Baseball is introduced by Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of a biography of Ty Cobb.

Editorial Reviews

"Frank, bitter, trend-setting autobiography."—USA Today Baseball Weekly

USA Today Baseball Weekly

"One of the most remarkable sports books ever written."—Los Angeles Daily News

Los Angeles Daily News

"The old Tiger still spits and snarls off the pages."—Cooperstown Review

Cooperstown Review

"Of Ty Cobb let it be said simply that he was the world's greatest ballplayer."—New York Herald Tribune (1961 editorial on Cobb's death)

New York Herald Tribune