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Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (425 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442251922
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American ManhoodLOC classification:
  • GV865.C6T75 2016
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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