Ty and The Babe: Baseball's Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312382243 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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No other ball players dominated their time as formidably as Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. Tom Stanton has beautifully re-created the most romantic period of American sports, provided new and powerful insights into a pair of greatly misunderstood figures in Cobb and Ruth, and given baseball and golf fans everywhere something to cheer lustily about."-James Dodson, author of Final Rounds and Ben Hogan: An American Life. That they linger yet is a testament to their talents and personalities.Praise for the Writing of Tom Stanton:"Ruth and Cobb come together as never before in this charming story of riv
The two men were opposite in many ways—a Southern Baptist slap hitter versus the Northeastern Catholic home run king—and they would go on to become enemies who competed fiercely for 14 seasons, frequently taunting one another and almost coming to blows. Two years later, they met in a golf match that stoked their competitive fires one last time and cemented their friendship. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Stanton's story of the rivalry-turned-friendship of Ty Cobb (with the Detroit Tigers) and Babe Ruth (with
A Fantastic Journey With Baseball's Foundation Players Tom Stanton can make the world of baseball come alive as hardly any other author can. One can sense his respect and love for the game and its players. This book is absolutely NO exception. In its pages one immerses oneself in a time when the game was a matter of intellect and cunning combined with Y-chromosome macho (think Ty Cobb) as it stumbles into the "shoot 'em out of the park and forget the mind games" age of The Babe. Then we slide effortlessly into the antique times of these two giants of America's Game and enjoy the comradship that didn't exist before. The ending is inevitable and s. A Peach of a Read Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.Two of the greatest names ever to play Major League Baseball and a pair of the most fiercest rivals on the diamond. Ruth was the new-school slugger whose gargantuan homers matched his pursuits off the field. Cobb was the oldest of old-school, a master of "small-ball," who saw the game of titan shots with "juiced" baseballs as an utter abomination."Cobb disliked much about Ruth. But one of the things that pricked him most was Ruth's lifestyle. The Babe lived with wild abandon, ignoring curfews, staying out all hours, drinking, partying, overeating,. "Interesteting premis but doesn't really hold water" according to R. C Sheehy. I have to say that I found this book interesting as written from a point of adulation, but as a history of baseball, it really did not serve much of a purpose. I found that it was weak and more focused on how the torch ended up being passed from Ty Cobb to Babe Ruth and used this forgotten golf grudge match as an excuse to write a book.I think the book could have been much more interesting had it focused on baseball from the mid teen's when Babe Ruth premiered to the late 1920's when Ty Cobb passed from the scene. Great ball players like Tris Speaker, Smokey Joe Wood, Lou Gehrig and Joe Duga