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“War on the Basepaths is more fact-based and less prone to myth and exaggeration than previous Cobb books. Hornbaker has a clear understanding of Cobb's greatness even though he played in a relative dead ball era.... This baseball season marks the 110th anniversary of Cobb's major league debut, and Hornbaker has fired the first shot in salvaging his reputation.” —Allen Barra, Chicago Tribune "We finally have a book that we can call a definitive bio of The Georgia Peach." —Daniel Solzman, The Kentucky DemocratPraise for Tim Hornbaker and Turning the Black Sox White “Tim Hornbaker takes a new and different look at the situation. It’s a pleasure to come along for the ride.” —Leigh Montville, New York Times bestselling author of Ted Williams and The Big Bam “In Turning the Black Sox White, Tim Hornbaker reviews Comiskey’s entire career and restores his reputation to its former state, with clear eye, fair mind, and thorough study.” —John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball and author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden “Charlie Comiskey is one of the giants of baseball history: a remarkable innovator as a player, manager and mogul; a fierce competitor yet an extraordinarily charismatic fellow. In this richly detailed work, Tim Hornbaker makes an open-and-shut case that, contrary to modern depictions of Comiskey as a greedy villain, he deserves to be remembered as a good as well as a great man.” —Edward Achorn, author of The Summer of Beer and Whiskey and Fifty-nine in ’84“War on the Basepaths is more fact-based and less prone to myth and exaggeration than previous Cobb books. Hornbaker has a clear understanding of Cobb's greatness even though he played in a relative dead ball era.... This baseball season marks the 110th anniversary of Cobb's major league debut, and Hornbaker has fired the first shot in salvaging his reputation.”—Allen Barra, Chicago Tribune"We finally have a book that we can call a definitive bio of The Georgia Peach." —Daniel Solzman, The Kentucky DemocratPraise for Tim Hornbaker and Turning the Black Sox White“Tim Hornbaker takes a new and different look at the situation. It’s a pleasure to come along for the ride.”—Leigh Montville, New York Times bestselling author of Ted Williams and The Big Bam“In Turning the Black Sox White, Tim Hornbaker reviews Comiskey’s entire career and restores his reputation to its former state, with clear eye, fair mind, and thorough study.”—John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball and author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden“Charlie Comiskey is one of the giants of baseball history: a remarkable innovator as a player, manager and mogul; a fierce competitor yet an extraordinarily charismatic fellow. In this richly detailed work, Tim Hornbaker makes an open-and-shut case that, contrary to modern depictions of Comiskey as a greedy villain, he deserves to be remembered as a good as well as a great man.”—Edward Achorn, author of The Summer of Beer and Whiskey and Fifty-nine in ’84
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About the Author
Tim Hornbaker is a lifelong sports historian and enthusiast. His book Turning the Black Sox White: The Misunderstood Legacy of Charles A. Comiskey was received with critical acclaim, and he resides in Tamarac, Florida.
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Product details
Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: Sports Publishing (May 5, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 161321765X
ISBN-13: 978-1613217658
Product Dimensions:
6.5 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
25 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#663,565 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is an outstanding biography of one of baseball's most driven players--Ty Cobb. He had demons, and these affected his play and his life. But many treatments of Cobb emphasize this element in his life and do not take a more nuanced view. This book explores his life in detail--warts and the good alike.A key part of his life was his father. He was attached to him greatly. When his father came around to accepting (and even approving) Ty's desire to play baseball, it was a key moment for him. But when his mother (under not completely clear circumstances) killed his father, it affected him considerably. So, too, bullying that he experienced. He developed a fire to succeed.The book provides a chronological history of his life and times. His childhood, his early years in baseball (at the outset, playing against boys older than him, and sometimes taking abuse as a result), the outset of his professional career. His minor league career soon settled into excellent play. This landed him a contract with the Detroit Tigers. His first year (only a part of a season) was not outstanding, but he showed enough to get a contract to continue. And how he continued!The story of his baseball exploits is well told. The hitting, the fielding, and the baserunning. He studied the game closely; he also used primitive psychology to advantage, trying to get under other players' skins. With baserunning, he studies pitchers and their tendencies. He would often take what seemed like crazy chances, such as stealing home, going from first to home on a single, and so on. His stolen base tally remained # 1 until many decades later.His hitting? With his left handed split grip, he bunted, sprayed the baseball around, and could hit with power for the era. Many RBIs. He won batting championship after batting championship. Hi was on pennant winning teams a hgandful of times, but could never experience being World Series champs.On the human side, the book shows the ups and downs of his relationship with other players--including his own teammates. Sometimes, a number of his teammates saw him as only pursuing personal goals (batting championships). He had feuds with other teammates--as well as players on other teams. He had a reputation in some quarters as dirty, using his spikes to hurt other players as he ran the bases. One of the positive aspects of this book is the author's analysis of such charges--suggesting that most times he was simply running rh bases hard (although there were probably some times when he went across a boundary). His relations with teammates and other playes was sometimes rocky. And yet he got on well with many players.The book describes his time as manager of Detroit--with both strengths and weaknesses outlined. It deals with his fights with fans, employees, and others. The text notes some rough encounters with African-Americans, to some extent (apparently), because of his southern views of them. Not an especially pretty picture. His relations with his family are well depicted--the ups and downs. The allegations that he and Tris Speaker were involved in betting on games. The final picture is not completely clear here.Finally, his life in retirement. Cobb was generous in many respects, with some philanthropic enterprises that were beneficial to the larger community. He did seem to mellow in retirement, although there were outbursts and his family life remained somewhat turbulent. His entrance into baseball's Hall of Fame is a part of this post-baseball life.All in all, a very nice biography of an enigmatic person.
Tim Hornbaker recently wrote a biography on Charles Comiskey the one-time owner of the Chicago White Sox in which the much-maligned Comiskey was given his due and had his life presented in a more favorable light. The author has now taken on another controversial member of the baseball fraternity in Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers. Having read the book on Comiskey I was prepared for a defense on the noted Tiger terror. I have to admit I believe author Hornbaker has succeeded in presenting a fair portrait of Cobb. I have several biographies of Cobb and they appear to dwell on age-old anecdotes of Cobb's atrocious reputation. I feel this present Cobb biography deals with the noted fights with opposing players and fans, his racial attitudes, spiking of players, the scandal near the end of his career, and temper tantrums are dealt with in a fair manner. We are used to reading the worst of Ty Cobb and author Hornbaker takes these incidents and presents the other side of the story where one exists. Exaggerations are dealt with and alternative versions are presented that have been ignored in other books.I noticed the sub-title of this book is "The Definitive Biography of Ty Cobb." With all of the biographies on Cobb, and yet another one coming out next month, it takes some brass, if you will, to label your book to be the "definitive biography." However, I respect the author's biography on Comiskey and I feel he has done a commendable job in giving the controversial Ty Cobb a fair shake. Buy the book. I'm sure you will enjoy it.
I've been fascinated with Cobb since I was a child, and as a young boy cried when he died in 1961. I read his autobiography several times, as well as, much later, Al Stump's devastatingly critical biography "Cobb." The movie based on Stump's book, in which Tommy Lee Jones played Cobb, was a waste of film. I was gratified to read this and Charles Leerhsen's "Ty Cobb, A Terrible Beauty," both of which resurrect Cobb's reputation and clarify his status as the greatest player of his day, and certainly one of the greatest players of all time. Both authors attack the traditional Cobb persona of a vicious, dirty, violent player (possibly mentally ill), and an uncompromising racist. The authors provide many examples from teammates and rivals who insist that Cobb was not a dirty player, in both contemporary and later accounts. He could be violent, but fighting was not uncommon during that period, including with umpires. Cobb certainly bore the prejudices of his day, especially being a Georgian born within 2 decades of the Civil War, but many players of his time had similar attitudes. And both authors point out that Cobb also had friendly African-American associations, and praised the game's integration and players such as Robinson, Campanella, and Mays.Regarding the two volumes, both published in 2015, I found Leerhsen's book a bit more colorful and readable, while Hornbaker's style is a bit more prosaic. But I consider both essential reading for Cobb fans and fans interested in that period of baseball history.
I’ve read most of the Ty Cobb books and this one is the best. It is straightforward and doesn’t read like an essay defending Cobb, like The other new Cobb book Terrrible beauty does
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