Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood (eBook)

Steven Elliott Tripp (Autor)

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2016
424 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-5192-2 (ISBN)

Infos

As the first baseball player to achieve real celebrity status, Ty Cobb embodies the strength and determination of classic masculinity. His grit and stubbornness, however, form a legacy that has been both lauded and condemned by America’s own changing views of ideal masculine behavior. With attention to Cobb’s formation, personal tragedies, and struggles with his peers, Steven Elliott Tripp examines this baseball icon as a product of the American South and as an emblem of a masculinity now out of fashion.

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Ty Cobb called baseball a "e;red-blooded game for red-blooded men,"e; warning that "e;molly coddles had better stay out."e; By this, Cobb meant that baseball was the ultimate expression of the masculine ideal - a game of aggression, rivalry, physical and mental dexterity, self-reliance, and primal honor. For over twenty years, Cobb expressed his fierce brand of manhood in ballparks throughout the American Northeast, gaining for himself a level of celebrity that was unsurpassed in the early twentieth century. Fans idolized Cobb not only because he was the best player in the game, but because his boisterous and combative style of play satisfied their desire for exhibitions of visceral manhood. They found in Cobb an antidote for what they feared were the corrupting influences of over-civilization.With balance, precision, and empathy, Steven Elliott Tripp brings the era to life in a narrative Publisher's Weekly has called "e;stunning."e; In contrast to recent biographies of Cobb that have tried to minimize his more brutish behavior and minimize his racial antipathies, Tripp contextualizes Cobb, placing him squarely within the cultural milieu of both the rural South of his birth and the Northern sporting culture of his professional career. Moreover, Tripp's reconstruction of early twentieth-century sporting culture isolates an important source of modern America's culture of hyper-masculinity.Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood is both an important work of social and cultural history and an absorbing tale of ambition and the quest for dominance. Tripp has written the rare narrative that is as appealing to scholars as it is to general readers and sports enthusiasts.

Autor

Steve Tripp teaches social and cultural American history at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

Inhalt

Preface Acknowledgments Prologue1 Becoming Ty Cobb 2 The Game 3 “The Professional Teach” 4 Honor 5 The Players’ Ethic 6 Fans 7 "The Most Unpopular Popular Man in Baseball"8 Cobb in the Age of Ruth 9 Protecting a Legacy Selected Bibliography Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 7 Illustrations including: - 7 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: American South • Babe Ruth • Baseball • Gender History • Masculinity • Patriarchy • Sports • ty cobb • world series
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-5192-1 / 1442251921
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-5192-2 / 9781442251922