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Tyrus "Ty" Cobb (1886–1961), who spent most of his career with the Detroit Tigers, has long been a divisive character in baseball history, at once known as the greatest hitter who ever put on a pair of spikes and played with ceaseless grit—and also a cantankerous, racist. Leerhsen's (Crazy Good) magisterial reexamination presents a detailed view of Cobb culled from actual research rather than hearsay. While the player was certainly no saint, his often-quarrelsome ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More