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...James Cobb of the University of Tennessee has studied the culture and economics of the Delta as much as anyone. He summarizes the melancholy story of the area as "a scary and fascinating pursuit of the American Dream" by a small group of bright, tough people who, unrestrained by conscience or government, ruthlessly exploited other people and resources even as they cloaked themselves in courtliness. Cobb has documented the manipulation of the modern political system by the likes of the late Senator James Eastland, who poured millions of tax dollars into the pockets of the planters and let the little...
Aaron was still a fearsome, albeit fading, slugger when he surpassed Ruth in 1974. In contrast, baseball purists should cringe at the way Pete Rose, his skills long vanished, was lionized for his Captain Ahab-like quest to break Ty Cobb's record for career base hits. Collision at Home Plate by James Reston Jr. (HarperCollins; $19.95) is a cautionary tale about the dangers of hero worship. This joint biography of Rose and baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti -- the former Yale University president who banished Rose from baseball in 1989 and then died suddenly little more than a week later -- never...
...role model anymore, but Pete Rose has found what may be a model role. This week the onetime Cincinnati Reds star, who is barred from baseball for gambling, will begin filming The Babe Ruth Story, an NBC made- for-TV movie. Rose will play Ty Cobb, the volatile Detroit outfielder who reigned as baseball's best hitter every year but one (1916) between 1907 and 1919. Talk about typecasting! Rose broke Cobb's long-standing record for most hits (4,191) in 1985 and went on to collect 4,256 before retiring in 1986; like Cobb, he had a reputation...
Still, lefties do not always cede the upper hand. Tennis players like Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe have an advantage that puts a deadly spin on the ball, and southpaws from Ty Cobb to Sandy Koufax have always been prized in baseball. And how about history's Left-Handed Hall of Fame? Lefty Napoleon! Lefty Picasso! Also such a contemporary personage as that stunning example of dyslexia in motion, Gerald Ford...
...Cobb Playwright Lee Blessing sees in the spikes-flying style of baseball's Ty Cobb not only the professionalization of an amiable amateur game but also the emergence of an aggressive American Century. He made that thesis work on regional stages without overburdening the life story of a hero detested by his teammates...