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

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,030 Founders Club
    Baseball and golf have great literature. Often better than the games
  • rodmansrage
    rodmansrage Member Posts: 6,378
    also would recommend 'the bad guys won,' good story about assholes and degenerates winning and doing things the RIGHT way.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam
    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
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    You know we’ve been inside too long when our girlfriends start white knighting for Ty Cobb.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam

    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
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,471 Founders Club

    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
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam

    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
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,471 Founders Club
    chuck 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
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam

    chuck 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
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    Ty Cobb was a pill popping racist that sharpened his spikes to hurt the other team while sliding.

    Very misunderstood.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,471 Founders Club
    chuck said:

    chuck 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
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,471 Founders Club

    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
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,471 Founders Club

    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
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325

    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
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,099

    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
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325

    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.



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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam

    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
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913

    chuck 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
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    If Little League Confidential isn’t on that list, it should be.