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Can I read Cobb : A Biography on EtoBox?
Cobb : A Biography by Al Stump [Stump, Al] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cobb : A Biography about?
A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes with this gripping look at a man who walked the line between greatness and psychosis. Based on Stump's interviews with Ty Cobb while ghostwriting the Hall-of-Famer's 1961 autobiography, this award-winning new account of Cobb's life and times reveals both the darkness and the brilliance of the "Georgia Peach." "The most powerful baseball biography I have read."--Roger Kahn, author of THE BOYS OF SUMMER
Who reads Cobb : A Biography?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Al Stump [Stump, Al]
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781565121447
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sports, Memoir, Anthropology
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (1,950 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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