EPILOGUE
Donie Bush’s comment about Cobb (p. 399) appeared in the New York Times, July 17, 1961. The quote about Nap Rucker (p. 399) is from My Life in Baseball, p. 143.
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Abbaticchio, “Batty,” 46
Adams, Charles “Babe,” 224–25, 226
Adams, Franklin Pierce, 179
Ade, George, 6, 7
Agnew, Sam, 306
Ainsmith, Eddie, 328
Albany Babies, 5
Alexander, Charles C., 170, 309, 322, 326, 401
errors in work of, 91, 281
Ty Cobb, 12, 15, 90, 136, 219, 220
Alexander, Grover Cleveland, 172
Alexander the Great, 24
Ali, Muhammad, 377
Allen, Dick, 212
American League:
founding of, 56–57, 345
and Tigers, 70–71
umpires, 360–62
American Monsters, 22
American Negro Leagues, 21, 245, 305
Anderson, Eddie “Rochester,” 305
Andonegui, José, 63
Angell, Roger, 42
Angus, Sam, 72
Anniston, Alabama, Base Ball Association, 64–66
Anson, Adrian “Cap,” “Pop,” 8, 173, 201, 213
Armour, Bill, 75–76, 78, 107, 122, 139
Cobb favored by, 113, 119, 126, 131, 132, 150, 166
and Cobb’s absence (1906), 134
and Cobb’s arrival at Tigers camp, 97, 101
and Cobb’s contracts, 94–95, 108–9
and Cobb’s hazing, 124–25, 126
final days of, 140
lacking leadership strength, 116, 124, 133, 141–42, 147–48
losing control, 111–12, 124, 141
morbid fear of butterflies, 75, 111
and 1905 season, 83–84
and players’ drinking, 113
and player strike, 140–41
and spring training, 111–12
Associated Press, 21
Atlanta Constitution, 14, 60, 62
Cobb interviews in, 6, 17, 107
on Cobb murder trial, 121–22
Cobb’s memoir serialized in, 130
on Cobb-Speaker case, 351
on fisticuffs, 27
and 1911 season, 251
on racial issues, 31
Atlanta Crackers, 60
Atlanta Journal, 182
“Special Ty Cobb Edition,” 180
Atlanta Theater, 6
Augusta, Georgia, Warren Park, 109–10, 151–53
Augusta Chronicle, 41, 75
on Cobb’s early Augusta Tourists seasons, 58, 59, 61, 64, 70, 96
on Cobb shooting, 93
Cobb’s investment in, 268
“Diamond Dust” columns, 78
light verse in, 122–23
stories about Cobb in, 96, 134–35, 143, 182, 229
Augusta Tourists, 50, 58–64
“alphabet book,” 83
Cobb let go from, 64, 66
Cobb’s contract with, 51–53
Cobb’s farewell tribute from, 95–96
Cobb’s investment in, 320
Cobb sold to Detroit by, 85, 93–96
Cobb’s return to, 67
Cobb working out with, 233
decline of, 66–67, 68–69
exhibition game with Tigers (1905), 70, 75, 77–78
as “joy club,” 68, 80, 93
“Name the Team” contest, 62
1904 opening day, 63–64
1904 season, 61–67, 107
1905 season, 70, 75, 93, 96
preseason tryouts, 58–60
spectator behavior, 77
Avery, Fred, 218
Babe and I, The (Claire Ruth), 329
Baer, Arthur “Bugs,” 266
Bagwell, Thomas Vandiver “Van,” 45–46, 48–49
Bak, Richard, 359
Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours, 136
Baker, Dusty, You Can Teach Hitting, 42
Baker, John Franklin (Frank) “Home Run,” 211, 212–17, 222, 250, 294, 370
Baker spiking incident, 212–17, 221–22, 226–27, 294, 339, 354, 356
Baltimore Orioles, 353
cheating and tricks of, 145, 146, 173, 208, 285
in Eastern League, 140, 146
in National League, 145
“scientific” baseball of, 147
Bang, Joe, 348
Barnard, Ernest, 340, 346
Barrett, Jimmy, 74, 83, 119
Barrow, Ed, 73–75, 76, 119, 257, 298, 315, 383
My Fifty Years in Baseball, 79
Barry, Jack, 209, 215, 222–23
baseball:
and antitrust laws, 385
ballplayers, see baseball players
Baltimore chop, 147
barnstorming, 47–48
base path collisions, 167, 207, 210, 216, 358
base-runner’s rights, 210–11
as bedlam, 137
“being a fan,” 163
breaking your heart, 251
changing game of, 384
as character-building, 16
cheating/fixing games, 54, 67, 145, 238–43; see also Black Sox scandal; Cobb-Speaker case
congressional investigation of, 384–85
curved foul balls, 361
deadball era, 9, 44, 51, 133, 156, 170, 171, 202, 278
early forms of (rounders; town ball; cat), 35–36, 39
eccentricities in, 48, 56, 75, 111, 195–96, 282
fans as “cranks,” 83
first base slide, 359
gambling in, 240, 257, 309, 331, 340–52
as hard work, 170
hit-and-run play, 147
honor and team play, 16, 240
illegal on Sunday, 174, 355
integration of, 20–22, 38, 189, 304, 346, 398
“jackrabbit ball,” 307, 385
Ladies Day, 263
livelier ball, 248, 307, 309, 327
as national game, 16, 54
outlaw leagues, 183
pressures of, 137
profession of, 183
racism in, 37, 189–90
radio broadcasts of games, 370
reserve clause in, 71, 148, 182, 263, 267, 385
rule 7.08i, forbidding running bases in reverse, 8
sacrifice bunt, 147
salaries in, 50
“scientific,” 11, 147
sideshow aspect of, 48
split grip in, 44
statisics in, 132–33, 238, 370, 398
stolen bases in, 207
Sunday games, 309
team owners as “magnates,” 56
tickertape play-by-play, 165, 174
unpredictability of, 10
unruly fans, 7, 222, 250–51, 256, 288, 292–93, 294, 295, 331, 361
violence in, 53–54
Baseball Abstract (James), 56
Baseball Digest, 25
Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, 20, 231, 308, 344, 370–71, 389, 392, 395
Baseball Magazine, 233, 288, 297
baseball players:
“ballplayer” as synonym for “lazy bum,” 50, 69, 262
changing roles in society, 262–63
demographics, 53
drinking by, 53, 55, 68, 112–13, 132, 137, 139
fighting, 176–77
free agents, 182
gifts to and from, 350–51, 362
Hothead type in, 74
and labor movement, 182, 267
off-season activities, 8
pitchers, see pitchers
returning war veterans, 301
as role models, 262
as ro
wdy and raucous, 54–56, 69, 263, 278
spiking, 206–11, 212–17
on strike, 140–41, 264–67
suicides of, 137
superstitions of, 99–100, 189–90
suspensions of, 48, 54, 117, 124–26, 129, 131, 261, 262, 264–67, 290, 362
as “yannigans” (rookies), 59
see also specific players
Baseball Players’ Fraternity (BPF), 182, 267
Baseball series (TV), 21–22, 379
Baseball: The Golden Age (Seymour), 258
Baseball Writers Association of America, 129, 370
Baseball Writers Dinner (1927), 356
Batchelor, E. A., 249, 290, 337
on A’s fans, 251, 294
on Cobb as actor, 247
and Cobb as manager, 315
on Tigers’ internal dissensions, 118, 235, 242
“Battle of the Long Count,” 363
Bay, “Deerfoot,” 46
Bell, Hiram Parks, 31, 32
Belli, Melvin, 377
Bemis, “Handsome Harry,” 48, 172
Bender, “Chief,” 8, 170, 173
Bennett, Charlie, 99
Benny, Jack, 305
Benz, Joe, 298
Berg, Moe, 7, 320
Bernhardt, Sarah, 370
Berra, Yogi, 40
Beveridge, Albert, 117
Biggio, Craig, 145
Birmingham, Joe, 172
Birmingham News, 253
Birtwell, Roger, 399
Bisher, Furman, 46
Blackburne, Russell, 100
Black Sox scandal, 266, 309, 312, 340, 343–44, 345, 351, 382
Blade, 399
Blessing, Lee, Cobb, 367
Blom, Philipp, The Vertigo Years, 135–36
Blue, Lu, 328, 392
Bluege, Ossie, 209
B’Nai B’rith, 394
Bodie, “Ping,” 328
Boehling, Joe, 297
Boland, Bernie, 344
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 121, 166
Boone, Dan, 287
Boone, Pat, 386
Booth, John Wilkes, 22
Booze, Oscar, 117
Boston Americans, 75, 132, 147
Boston Braves, 292
Boston Globe, 214, 236, 268, 292, 399
Boston Herald, 192
Boston Red Sox:
Cobb in games against, 191–92, 290–91, 293–94
1915 season, 285, 286, 287–91, 292–95
1919 season, 309, 349, 350
and Ruth, 285, 289, 295, 307, 309, 311
“Tessie” (theme song), 293
unruly fans of, 288, 292–93, 294
world championships of, 283, 295, 307
Bowers, J. M., 32
Boyer, Charles, 62
Braathen, Sverre O., Ty Cobb: The Idol of Baseball Fandom, 14
Bradley, Bill, 48, 162, 172, 209
Bradley, Ed, 216
Brady, Frank, 99, 100
Brennan, Bill, 330
Bressler, Rube, 298
Breton, Jim, 278
Bridgeport Telegram, 328
Bridwell, Al, 196
Briggs, Walter, 314, 338
Brissie, Lou, 14–15
Brock, Lou, 206
Brooklyn Robins, 257
Broun, Heywood, 15, 184
Brown, Joe E., 392
Brown, Mordecai “Three-Finger,” 179, 199
Brown, Stewart, 53, 58
Brown, Stewart Jr., 394, 395
Bruske, Paul H., 105, 112, 193, 214, 247
Bryson, Bill, 207
Buchanan, James, 29
Buckeye, Garland, 340
Buelow, Fritz, 48
Bulger, Bozeman, 356
Bullion, Harry, 311, 319, 321, 323, 328, 344
Buranelli, Prosper, 319, 325
Burke, Edmund S., 226
Burns, Ken, 21–22, 379
Burns, “Tioga” George, 210, 315
Bush, Donie, 13, 190, 235, 247, 261, 311, 321, 328, 399
Busting ’Em (Cobb), 180, 237, 331
Butt, Archie, 233
Caldwell, “Slim,” 13, 203, 286–87
Callahan, Jim, 257
Camnitz, Howard, 224
Campanella, Roy, 21, 305
Cantillon, Joe, 126–27
Cantor, Eddie, 50, 262
Caravaggio, 9
Carew, Rod, 42
Carey, George “Scoops,” 46
Carey, Max, 204
Carlisle, Kitty, 368
Carpenter, William, 280–81
Carr, C. D., 93, 94–95, 101
Carrigan, Bill, 288, 289, 293
Carter, John B., 80
Caruso, Enrico, 276, 283
Cass, Frances Fairburn, 377–78
Central Park, New York, 246–47, 253–54
Chalmers, Hugh, 244, 318
Chalmers Trophy (1910), 237–44
Chambers, Joshua, 103, 104
Chance, Frank, 179
Chapman, Ray, 294, 312–13
Chase, Bertha, 62
Chase, Hal, 10, 170, 344
Chesbro, Jack, 98, 99, 100
Chicago Colts, 307
Chicago Cubs, 178–80, 197–99
Chicago Defender, 303–4
Chicago Tribune, 214, 261, 292, 317, 331
Chicago White Sox, 165, 296
Black Sox scandal, 266, 309, 312, 340, 343–44, 345, 351, 382
Clean Sox, 349, 350
and “Cripple Games,” 141
“Hitless Wonder,” 124, 178
Chicago White Stockings, 201
Chiles, Pearce “What’s the Use,” 208
Chittenden, W. G., 281
Chitwood, Caleb, 23
Cicotte, Eddie, 68, 84, 312
Cincinnati Enquirer, 179, 216
Cincinnati Reds, 279–80, 340
Clarke, Fred, 84, 223, 224, 225, 257
Clarke, Jay Justin “Nig,” 162, 372, 382
Cleveland Indians, and Cobb-Speaker case, 341–42, 344
Cleveland Naps, 111, 153, 162, 165
League Park, 170
name of, 238
Tigers-Naps game (1907), 171–72
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 141, 142, 335, 339–40, 344, 348
Clinton, Bill, 48
Cobb (Blessing), 367
Cobb (movie), 400, 402
Cobb (Stump), 12, 42, 136, 219, 229, 402
Cobb, Amanda Chitwood (mother), 155, 194
death of, 373, 380
husband shot by, 33, 89–92, 93, 103–4, 122, 150
marriage of William and, 23–24
property of, 110
trial of, 92, 110, 119, 120, 121–22
and Ty’s career, 268
and Ty’s childhood, 28, 30, 33, 37
verdict of not guilty, 122
Cobb, Beverly (daughter), 310, 342, 371, 376, 393
Cobb, Charlie (wife), 280, 363
divorce filing by, 374, 377
and family, 268, 321, 374–75
homes of, 268, 375
marriage of Ty and, 138–39, 193–94
and Ty’s death, 378
and Ty’s funeral, 402–3
and Ty’s games, 194, 225, 348, 374
and Ty’s retirement, 382
Cobb, Ezra (uncle), 47, 69, 166
Cobb, Florence (sister), 24, 91, 92, 103, 155, 373, 380
Cobb, Frances Cass (second wife), 377–78
Cobb, Herschel (grandson), 28, 376
Cobb, Herschel (son), 373, 374, 376, 377
Cobb, Howell (ancestor), 29
Cobb, Jimmy (son), 321, 371, 375–76
Cobb, John Franklin “Grandpa Johnny,” 28–29, 38, 39, 166, 395
Cobb, John Paul (brother), 24, 91, 92, 122, 155, 373
Cobb, Norah (aunt), 30, 39, 302
Cobb, Peggy [Sugg] (granddaughter), 367–68
Cobb, Sarah (grandmother), 39
Cobb, Shirley Marion (daughter), 252, 310, 321, 374, 375, 376
Cobb, Thomas Reade Rootes (ancestor), 29
Cobb, Tyrus Raymond “Ty”:
and abstinence, 151, 170–71
as actor, 5–9, 16–18, 218, 230, 246, 247, 253, 264, 284
ambition of, 46, 66, 80–81, 121, 297
analyzing his rivals, 10, 11, 19, 60, 102, 128, 167, 170, 184, 203, 297, 354
on another level, 15, 127, 129, 156, 169, 172
in the Army, 274, 298, 299–300
arrest for assault, 149, 220, 225, 226–27
attacked by teammates, 157, 159
and Augusta Tourists, see Augusta Tourists
autobiography (1961), 39, 41, 45, 117, 167, 300, 385–91, 399–400
awards, honors, and gifts to, 8, 21, 184, 191, 256, 264, 291, 362
on baseball, 18–20, 130, 300–301
base running, 10, 12, 13–14, 45, 58–59, 67, 127–29, 156, 167–68, 170, 172, 177, 182, 184, 202–6, 207, 211, 212, 213–16, 249, 256, 264, 286–87, 294, 298, 306, 309, 313, 319, 332, 372
base stealing, 10, 13, 78, 101–2, 177, 206, 222, 249, 275, 283, 286, 291, 294, 306, 357, 359
at bat, 9, 13, 40, 43–44, 59, 106, 168–69, 175–76, 233, 307, 364, 383–84
batting stance of, 9, 10–11, 43–44, 168
biographies of, 12, 14, 42, 90–91, 136, 219, 220, 229, 268, 334, 385–96, 401–4
birth of, 23
bizarre behavior of, 58–60, 65, 78, 82, 102–3, 156, 168, 190–91, 194, 202, 206, 287, 302, 332
black bats of, 58, 59, 70, 82, 96, 100, 116, 193
bunting, 81, 248, 360, 372
Busting ’Em (1914 memoir), 180, 237, 331
and celebrity, 8, 16, 45, 172–73, 184, 233, 246, 253, 263, 283–84, 297, 304, 307
and charities, 20, 394–95
and children, 229–30, 342, 368, 371, 373–77
Cobb-Speaker case, 340–52, 353
confidence of, 45, 103, 107, 168, 184, 319
constant energy of, 14, 59, 82, 105, 106, 118, 175, 185, 357
constant worries of, 184–85, 217, 227, 297
and contracts, 51–53, 64, 65, 93, 94–95, 108–9, 180–83, 200, 231–32, 268, 275–76, 277, 301–2, 334–35, 338, 356, 363
and controversies, 127–28, 212–20, 237–44, 249–51, 258–67, 269–70, 277, 280–82, 302–4, 333, 349
in Cuba, 244–45
as “Cyrus,” 92, 104
death of, 39, 304, 368, 378, 389, 396
death threats to, 8, 191, 212, 217, 221
decline of, 275, 296, 308, 326–27, 332, 335, 356–57, 372, 385, 386, 393, 394–96
early years of, 14, 23, 24–28, 30, 34, 36–39, 40–49
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