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NEW TY COBB BOOK BEING RELEASED IN APRIL!

INSIDE BASEBALL With TY COBB
A Book Every Major League Player Should Own!

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COBB HELPS RESTORE OWN LEGACY WITH NEW BOOK!

IT’S HERE!!!

Tampa, Fl. March 26, 2007 - The TY COBB Historian today announces the release of a one of a kind, never before look into the great mind, the mastery of thoughts from the player considered by most to be greatest baseball player of all-time. Cobb was the first player inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, in 1936.

Cobb tells the truth about his early days in Royston, Georgia, his entry into the professional leagues, and his early baseball experiences as told to the Atlanta Journal & Constitution in 1913, while at the pinnacle of his extraordinary career.

Cobb answers some of the most prolific miscalculations of his professional career. He talks of why his feuds with players and umpires were misunderstood, he explains spiking in baseball, he explains his reputation as being a “crazy” base runner and finally, he tells of how he kept himself in shape physically.

Most of these stories have never been told by Cobb, firsthand, lending credibility to the restoration of his own legacy.

This book was called “My First Biography” by Ty Cobb himself. The book was edited and published by TY COBB’S foremost authority, one who has earned the title as TY COBB Historian. A Chapter is dedicated to the establishment of the TY COBB Museum in his hometown of Royston, Georgia.

The book features pinch-hitters for the famed “Georgia Peach,” such as Hugh Jennings and Charles Comiskey, both being closely associated with this great player.

“He is a player whom everybody likes to see on the field, for he always does his best. The bleachers are crowded with fans that come to see him play, expecting something startling, something unusual, and Cobb seldom disappoints them,” Hugh Jennings, Detroit Tigers’ manager - 1912.

“The greatest player of all-time?,” questioned the former Chicago White Sox owner, Charles Comiskey, “I pick the Detroit man because he is, in my judgment, the most expert man of his profession and he is able to respond better than any other player to any demand made on him. I pick him because he plays ball with his whole anatomy—his head, his arms, his hands, his legs, and his feet—and because he plays ball all the time for all that is in him.”

INSIDE BASEBALL and Cobb takes you through the truth of his childhood days, his parental opposition to baseball, his breaking into the minor league in Augusta,Ga., his entry into the Major Leagues and his experiences with the big league greats, and his opinion on the advantages and fundamentals of playing all the different positions on the team. Cobb talks of what made him so successful in baseball, he talks of how to stay in condition, sleeping and eating, he tells how he treated umpires, he talked of how to bat under most conditions and he tells how to throw and run the bases properly. His chapter on “what constitutes a star ball player” truly epitomizes the psychology of the times.

The book is available now in perfect bound paperback from www.insidebaseball.org.

Wesley Fricks is an avid baseball researcher who has set out to restore Ty Cobb’s reputation to its original state. He serves on the TY COBB Museum Advisory Board and he volunteers as the Museum's off-site historian.

INSIDE BASEBALL With TY COBB – A Book Every Major League Player Should Own!; Wesley Fricks, Editor; Aardvark Global Publishing [9587 So. Grandview Dr.Salt Lake City, UT 84092 USA], toll-free 1-800-614-3578.

Published date April 2007; $20.00; 238 pages; ISBN 978-1-4276-1738-5. Perfect bound paperback. The book size is 5.5 X 8.5 with images rather than pictures because some have not been printed in over 90 years.

For more ordering information, please contact: http://www.aardvardglobalpublishing.com/ or at http://www.tycobbmuseum.org/ , or at the book’s official Website at http://www.insidebaseball.org/ .

posted by Wesley Fricks @ 6:57 PM