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Laddar... Ty Cobb: Safe at Homeav Don Rhodes
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is a very peculiar book which sets out to describe Cobb's personal and family life, as well as his businesses, investments, and comings and goings around Augusta, Georgia, something of an adopted home town for the baseball great. To match or even supplement the many biographies, most of them very good, of Cobb is a big ask. The author's foremost tool is a series of interviews with the Cobb descendants, and, although these are valuable and interesting, they inevitably deadend with some of them saying that they sort of liked him and the other half saying that they sort of didn't. Past that, despite a lengthy bibliography, the reader gets very little sense that the author did much research beyond looking through the back issues of Augusta newspapers. And one doesn't have to be a Cobb-hater to resent the author's lengthy (and tedious) attempt to excuse Cobb's personal shortcomings by the undoubted liberality of his charitable contributions. The parts of the book which are useful could have been fit quite easily into an article or booklet, and we could have been spared wading through a great deal of small-town newspaper tittle-tattle about minor league spring trainings and trophy presentations. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Distantly related to a Confederate general, Ty Cobb was a strapping Augusta youth who became a star for the Detroit Tigers. Long revered as a great hitter and an incredibly fast baserunner, Cobb often has been remembered as a hated athlete, a bitter man who died nearly 50 years ago. No biographer has explored the complex personality as deeply and meticulously as Don Rhodes in his new comprehensive biography. Rhodes reveals the man as Cobb was in Augusta: in the off season and as a retiree. For the first time, a biographer includes interviews with Cobb's two daughters (whom Rhodes met before they died), his granddaughter, and close friends, who offer insight and photos of Cobb's private life never seen before. Many of Cobb's emotional troubles started early in life, and no doubt were compounded during his early seasons with the Tigers, when his mother went on trial for murdering his father. The ugly side of this phenomenal athlete is not defended or explained away, but readers learn to better understand a man who seemed so miserable, when he had so much.Don Rhodes is an editor at Morris Communications in Augusta. He has written "Ramblin' Rhodes," a music column, for more than 37 years, and his byline appears in many magazines and newspapers. He lives in North Augusta, South Carolina. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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