Ty Cobb

Anything and Everything About The Georgia Peach

The mercurial and polarizing Ty Cobb, known as much for his biting tongue and strong opinions as his other worldly play on the field. The field is open to discuss Cobb’s merit as a human being. Opinions range from scum to misunderstood, whether it’s fair is up for you to decide. Besides his polarizing personality, its undeniable how much of a one-man-wrecking-crew he was on the diamond. Dropping bunts, fake steals, steals, cleating would be fielders, and racking up 4,000 career hits, the man did everything. He brought liveliness to the Deadball era, and will forever live in the record books with his career leading .366 batting average (one of the safest records on the books).

Ty Cobb books are all over the place, from his autobiographies, to the highly controversial Al Stump books, to the classic 1910 batting title race against Nap Lajoie. There is a wealth of knowledge here, but I will start with a selection that covers the greatest bandwith, and will provide the reader with unadulterated Cobb, plus books that point to his relevance to the overall league.

Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen

When Cobb Met Wagner: The Seven-Game World Series of 1909 by David Finoli

My Twenty Years in Baseball by Ty Cobb

The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession by Rick Huhn