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Busting 'em: And Other Big League Stories (1914)
"Ty" Cobb (1886 – 1961), was an American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder who spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1999 he was ranked 3rd on the list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players"
"Busting 'Em and Other Big League Stories", by Ty. Cobb, has two qualifications that will sell it at sight—the phenomenal popularity of the author on the "diamond" and the universal interest of the game he knows so well. Mr. Cobb was a wonderful batter, and the greatest base runner that baseball ever produced. He was the fastest thinker in the game. He is the hero of the "fans" who include practically all the masculine population of the United States, and they will delight in his book for he writes as he talks, unaffectedly and with winning spontaneity. He tells of his sensational plays, his methods of defeating rival teams and the record is one of interest even to the uninitiated for brains and knowledge of human nature is required for the success that has made him famous. It will be a surprise to some to read just what it means to be on a ball team, and how the men are obliged to spend their time when they are not playing. Here one gets the different phases of league work, its technique, the financial element and the physical effect—and the funny incidents! Ty Cobb has covered his Big League career very thoroughly in this book. He has given the real inside of life in the Big League, and baseball as it is played in fast society. The book will prove a home run in the literary field!!
This book originally published in 1914 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
