Missing baseball during coronavirus shutdown? Here are 10 books to fill the void

DerekJohnson

https://sfchronicle.com/sports/jenkins/article/A-top-10-reading-list-for-baseball-fans-15188392.php

RaceBannon

Baseball and golf have great literature. Often better than the games

1to392831weretaken

No!

rodmansrage

also would recommend 'the bad guys won,' good story about assholes and degenerates winning and doing things the RIGHT way.

chuck

I watched the Ken Burns baseball documentary series. Solid as usual. My GF took a surprising interest too. She chose to argue with me about Ty Cobb, who was the biggest prick in the history of the game and possibly the galaxy. She felt he was misunderstood.

ThomasFremont

You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

chuck

ThomasFremont said:

You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

We've hardly been inside at all, but your comment still checks out.

DerekJohnson

ThomasFremont said:

You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

Al Stump wrote a fantastic book about Cobb. Cobb was a complicated figure.

chuck

DerekJohnson said:

ThomasFremont said:

You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

Al Stump wrote a fantastic book about Cobb. Cobb was a complicated figure.

For sure. But then again he went into the stands and stomped out a disabled guy for some comment about Cobb being black or like a black or half black or something along those lines. Then he justified it saying nobody should have to put up with that even from a guy with no hands. Or maybe he had no feet. One of those.

DerekJohnson

chuck said:

DerekJohnson said:

ThomasFremont said:

You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

Al Stump wrote a fantastic book about Cobb. Cobb was a complicated figure.

For sure. But then again he went into the stands and stomped out a disabled guy for some comment about Cobb being black or like a black or half black or something along those lines. Then he justified it saying nobody should have to put up with that even from a guy with no hands. Or maybe he had no feet. One of those.

but then again he did some incredibly charitable things for needy people that went unreported. he was mentally ill in his later years and alienated everyone

at his funeral only two people from the world of baseball attended

chuck

DerekJohnson said:

chuck said:

DerekJohnson said:

ThomasFremont said:

You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

Al Stump wrote a fantastic book about Cobb. Cobb was a complicated figure.

For sure. But then again he went into the stands and stomped out a disabled guy for some comment about Cobb being black or like a black or half black or something along those lines. Then he justified it saying nobody should have to put up with that even from a guy with no hands. Or maybe he had no feet. One of those.

but then again he did some incredibly charitable things for needy people that went unreported. he was mentally ill in his later years and alienated everyone

at his funeral only two people from the world of baseball attended

Dang Derek you should talk to my GF. The two of you surprisingly have something in common. Maybe you could organize an annual Ty Cobb apologist get together.

I believe you that there's more to him than I or most others know. My take is that he was mentally ill from the start. Nobody is that intense without some sort of disorder.

ThomasFremont

Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

Very misunderstood.

DerekJohnson

chuck said:

DerekJohnson said:

chuck said:

DerekJohnson said:

ThomasFremont said:

You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

Al Stump wrote a fantastic book about Cobb. Cobb was a complicated figure.

For sure. But then again he went into the stands and stomped out a disabled guy for some comment about Cobb being black or like a black or half black or something along those lines. Then he justified it saying nobody should have to put up with that even from a guy with no hands. Or maybe he had no feet. One of those.

but then again he did some incredibly charitable things for needy people that went unreported. he was mentally ill in his later years and alienated everyone

at his funeral only two people from the world of baseball attended

Dang Derek you should talk to my GF. The two of you surprisingly have something in common. Maybe you could organize an annual Ty Cobb apologist get together.

I believe you that there's more to him than I or most others know. My take is that he was mentally ill from the start. Nobody is that intense without some sort of disorder.

His father climbed in through a window as he suspected his wife of cheating on him. His wife mistook him for a burglar and shot him to death. Ty was 17 at the time. Al Stump speculated that this was what mentally broke Ty. (Cobb, not Willingham)

DerekJohnson

ThomasFremont said:

Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

Very misunderstood.

Sounds like you've got it all figured out.

DerekJohnson

ThomasFremont said:

Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

Very misunderstood.

And I said complicated, not misunderstood.

ThomasFremont

DerekJohnson said:

ThomasFremont said:

Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

Very misunderstood.

And I said complicated, not misunderstood.

I sharpened by spikes when I played baseball too. So I think I know what I’m talking about.

PurpleThrobber

ThomasFremont said:

DerekJohnson said:

ThomasFremont said:

Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

Very misunderstood.

And I said complicated, not misunderstood.

I sharpened by spikes when I played baseball too. So I think I know what I’m talking about.

Going from plastic spikes to metal spikes in 5th grade was the highlight of my baseball career.

I did come in high on a slide one time and the bloody mess of the opposing 3rd baseman's shin was something of which I still quite proud.

ThomasFremont

PurpleThrobber said:

ThomasFremont said:

DerekJohnson said:

ThomasFremont said:

Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

Very misunderstood.

And I said complicated, not misunderstood.

I sharpened by spikes when I played baseball too. So I think I know what I’m talking about.

Going from plastic spikes to metal spikes in 5th grade was the highlight of my baseball career.

I did come in high on a slide one time and the bloody mess of the opposing 3rd baseman's shin was something of which I still quite proud.

I approve this message

chuck

ThomasFremont said:

DerekJohnson said:

ThomasFremont said:

Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

Very misunderstood.

And I said complicated, not misunderstood.

I sharpened by spikes when I played baseball too. So I think I know what I’m talking about.

I never spike the kids.

Kaepsknee

DerekJohnson said:

chuck said:

DerekJohnson said:

ThomasFremont said:

You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.

Al Stump wrote a fantastic book about Cobb. Cobb was a complicated figure.

For sure. But then again he went into the stands and stomped out a disabled guy for some comment about Cobb being black or like a black or half black or something along those lines. Then he justified it saying nobody should have to put up with that even from a guy with no hands. Or maybe he had no feet. One of those.

but then again he did some incredibly charitable things for needy people that went unreported. he was mentally ill in his later years and alienated everyone

at his funeral only two people from the world of baseball attended

Syphilis will do that to a man.

ThomasFremont

If Little League Confidential isn’t on that list, it should be.