Full Description
As sports editor for the Detroit News, H.G. Salsinger reported on Tigers great Ty Cobb for 18 seasons, beginning in 1909 when the outfielder won his only Triple Crown. He would go on to write about Cobb's career for decades after. This volume presents for the first time together Salsinger's two books on the Hall of Famer. Part One offers the first authorized biography, Our Ty (1924), while Part Two provides the writer's take on what, more than 25 years later, had become a familiar question, Which Was Greatest: Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth? (1951). Salsinger's close personal relationship with Cobb yields insights into the legend's complex personality, illuminating and sometimes dispelling myths that have risen in the literature since Cobb's death in 1961.
Contents
Table of Contents
Editor's Note
"Ty Cobb at the Bat" by H.G. Salsinger
Part One. "Our Ty: Ty Cobb's Life Story" (1924)
Preface
1. Brains
2. Cobb's Secret Ambition
3. Ty Cobb as a Boy
4. Ty's Father
5. He Takes the Plunge
6. Jobless
7. Genius Afire
8. Hard Work
9. The Nut
10. Cobb's Debut
11. The Griddle
12. A Star Evolves
13. Revolution
14. New Phases
15. The Observer
16. Ty's Opinions
17. A Wrong Pitch
18. Three Failures
19. Confidence
20. Features
21. Tricks
22. Tact
23. A New Role
24. On the Bases
25. Sliding
26. His Methods
27. Value of Surprise
28. Nine Slides
29. Stride
30. 90 Feet
31. Heads Up Baseball
32. Headlines
33. The Threat
34. Ty's Best
35. His Target
36. The Umpire Gasps
37. Comparisons
38. Then and Now
39. Spiking
40. Fielding
41. Ingenuity
42. 20 Years
43. Keeping Fit
44. His Battle
45. Ty Cobb, the Man
46. His Nature
47. Ty's Hobby
48. A Bad Loser
49. Ty's Views
50. The Dynamo
51. The Old Days
52. His Moods
53. Rest
54. Cobb's Selections
55. In His Wake
56. The Dollar
57. Records
58. 100,000,000 Know Him
Part Two. "Which Was Greatest—Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth?" (1951)
1. The Greatest of the Great
2. Babe Pleased the Eye—Ty Pleased the Mind and the Eye
3. "Be a Success or Don't Come Home"
4. Small-Town Boy Learns of the Big Time
5. The Big Persuasion—or How the Tigers Got Ty
6. "He'll Be the Greatest Player"—Hugh Jennings
7. A Youngster Remakes the Game
8. Like a Thoroughbred in the Stretch
9. Creating the Mental Hazard
10. When Ty Outguessed Rube and Won the Flag
11. Never Tense and Seldom Injured
12. "Cobb Carried Brains in His Feet"
13. A Born Pitcher, He Thought
14. A Fine Man, Kind to Umpires
15. First Batter to Study a Pitcher
16. His Weaknesses Became His Strength
17. Climbed to the Top on Confidence
18. Tips to the Kids from the Gods
19. When Georgians Went to Bat for the Peach
20. From Firebrand to Sentimentalist
21. A Man of Many Moods
22. "Cobb Did More for the Game Than Any Other Man"
Index
