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Subject(s)

• Cobb, Ty 1886-1961 [Browse]
• Baseball players—United States—Biography [Browse]
• Baseball—Social aspects [Browse]
• Masculinity in sports [Browse]

Summary note

As the first baseball player to achieve real celebrity status, Ty Cobb embodies the strength and determination of classic masculinity. His grit and stubbornness, however, form a legacy that has been both lauded and condemned by America's own changing views of ideal masculine behavior. With attention to Cobb's formation, personal tragedies, and struggles with his peers, Steven Elliott Tripp examines this baseball icon as a product of the American South and as an emblem of a masculinity now out of fashion.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Becoming Ty Cobb; 2 The Game; 3 "The Professional Teach"; 4 Honor; 5 The Players' Ethic; 6 Fans; 7 "The Most Unpopular Popular Man in Baseball"; 8 Cobb in the Age of Ruth; 9 Protecting a Legacy; Selected Bibliography; Index

ISBN

1-4422-5192-1

LCCN

2016015725

OCLC

946032343

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