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Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit Paperback - 1993

by Richard Bak


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The period from 1920 through the early post-World War II years remains the greatest in the long history of the Detroit Tigers Baseball Club. Between 1920 and 1950 the club won four pennants and two World Series, placed second seven times, and regularly fielded exciting, competitive teams.

Richard Bak spent ten years recording the life stories of nearly two dozen Tigers players from Detroit's "golden age." There was no pattern to how life had treated them since their playing days--some had stayed in the game as broadcasters or scouts; others had slipped into quiet anonymity as milkmen or machine repairmen. Bak retains the flavor of each man's speech and the integrity of his character. Players' interviews are prefaced with a short history of the parallel paths the city and professional baseball took from the end of World War I through the early 1950s.

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  • Title Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit
  • Author Richard Bak
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition; S
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan
  • Date 1993-04-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780814323564 / 0814323561
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.89 x 5.93 x 1.17 in (22.58 x 15.06 x 2.97 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Michigan
    • Locality: Detroit, Michigan
  • Library of Congress subjects Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) - History, Detroit (Mich.) - History - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91004156
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

About the author

Richard Bak is the author of more than twenty-five books, including A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium (Wayne State University Press, 1998), and Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 (Wayne State University Press, 1995).
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