[Mick]

“Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty” by Charles Leershen.  Interesting read in a lot of respects. According to Leershen, much of what is “known” about Cobb was manufactured by a writer (Al Stump) that penned an “unofficial biography” that was full of falsehoods.

The book is not an “exoneration” of Cobb by any means.  But it is a somewhat different version of his story that is the “conventional wisdom.”  

Baseball at the turn of the 20th through the dead ball era was a different game to say the least. The book has some terrific stories of that game.  

Worth a read.

Cobb lived for years in Atherton and his daughter, Shirley, owned an excellent bookstore in Menlo Park.

Read and loved this book.  Very good read.

Also "Trading Bases" written by a former Wall Street trader who had a Stanford MBA. "Liar's Poker" meets "Moneyball."

https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Bases-For...4397095807

[Mick]

“Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty” by Charles Leershen.  Interesting read in a lot of respects. According to Leershen, much of what is “known” about Cobb was manufactured by a writer (Al Stump) that penned an “unofficial biography” that was full of falsehoods.

The book is not an “exoneration” of Cobb by any means.  But it is a somewhat different version of his story that is the “conventional wisdom.”  

Baseball at the turn of the 20th through the dead ball era was a different game to say the least. The book has some terrific stories of that game.  

Worth a read.

Cobb lived for years in Atherton and his daughter, Shirley, owned an excellent bookstore in Menlo Park.

Read and loved this book.  Very good read.

Also "Trading Bases" written by a former Wall Street trader who had a Stanford MBA. "Liar's Poker" meets "Moneyball."

https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Bases-For...4397095807