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Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood (Paperback)
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Ty Cobb called baseball a "red-blooded game for red-blooded men,"
warning that "molly coddles had better stay out." By this, Cobb
meant that baseball was the ultimate expression of the masculine
ideal - a game of aggression, rivalry, physical and mental
dexterity, self-reliance, and primal honor. For over twenty years,
Cobb expressed his fierce brand of manhood in ballparks throughout
the American Northeast, gaining for himself a level of celebrity
that was unsurpassed in the early twentieth century. Fans idolized
Cobb not only because he was the best player in the game, but
because his boisterous and combative style of play satisfied their
desire for exhibitions of visceral manhood. They found in Cobb an
antidote for what they feared were the corrupting influences of
over-civilization. With balance, precision, and empathy, Steven
Elliott Tripp brings the era to life in a narrative Publisher's
Weekly has called "stunning." In contrast to recent biographies of
Cobb that have tried to minimize his more brutish behavior and
minimize his racial antipathies, Tripp contextualizes Cobb, placing
him squarely within the cultural milieu of both the rural South of
his birth and the Northern sporting culture of his professional
career. Moreover, Tripp's reconstruction of early twentieth-century
sporting culture isolates an important source of modern America's
culture of hyper-masculinity. Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American
Manhood is both an important work of social and cultural history
and an absorbing tale of ambition and the quest for dominance.
Tripp has written the rare narrative that is as appealing to
scholars as it is to general readers and sports enthusiasts.
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