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The Ty Cobb Museum to host book signing. HEART of a TIGER, written by Herschel Cobb |
The Ty Cobb Museum will be hosting a book signing and reception for Mr. Herschel Cobb, grand-son of baseball great Tyrus Raymond Cobb. The event will take place on Saturday, May 18, 2013, from 10 am—12 noon at the Ty Cobb Museum. Several of the Cobb family members will be on hand to make this a family affair.
Herschel Cobb lives in Menlo Park, California along with his wife Lynn, and two grown children. His name, Tyrus Raymond Cobb, is not the only thing their son has inherited from his great-grandfather. He too has a love for and innate ability to play baseball. This Ty Cobb, however, chose to follow his love for basketball and attends Occidental College in California on a basketball scholarship. Their daughter, Madelyn, is quite the athlete as well. She excels in Polo and has tak-en after her maternal great-grandfather, who is a member of the Polo Hall of Fame.
There’s no place like home
Ty Cobb is a baseball immortal, considered by many the greatest player who ever lived. In an age when the game was young and tough, he cultivated a reputation as the fiercest competitor of them all. Yet after he retired, he realized that the very qualities that had helped him reach the pinnacle of his profession also undermined his relationship with his own children. |
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Herschel Cobb grew up in a chaotic, destructive household. His father was cruel and abusive, and his mother was an adulterous alcoholic. After his father died when Herschel was eight, he began to spend a portion of each summer with his grandfa-ther. Along with his sister and brother, Herschel visited Ty Cobb at his home in Atherton, California, or at his cabin at Lake Tahoe. These days were filled with ad-ventures and discoveries as “Granddaddy” warmed to having his “three redheads” with him.
Heart of a Tiger is Herschel Cobb’s moving account of how a retired sports star seized a second chance at having a close family, with his grandchildren the luck re-cipients of his change of heart. He proved the enormous power of a grandparent to provide stability, love and guidance, and in doing so developed another wholly dif-ferent legacy.
Phone: 706-245-1825 - Address: Ty Cobb Museum, 461 Cook St, Royston, GA 30662 |
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