Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit [Paperback]

Richard Bak (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 385 pages
• Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr (T) (April 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814323561
• ISBN-13: 978-0814323564
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Lawrence Ritter of Tiger literature, July 30, 1999

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This review is from: Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit (Great Lakes Books) (Hardcover)

If Richard Bak was to write 10 books about the Detroit Tigers, I'm sure my top 10 favorite books on the team would be those books (with my appologies to Ernie Harwell). Unlike any other Detroit Tiger author, Bak puts you at the feet of the greats he talks about or interviews and makes you feel like you are at Tiger Stadium during the 1930s. He has just the right blend of personality and historical fact to each book he publishes. In Cobb Would've Caught It, Bak talks to several Tiger greats and not-so Tiger greats and puts you in the seat next to him while he interviews them. I almost catch myself wanting to ask questions to the players as each story continues on. When Bak writes a book about Detroit basball, I immediately buy it - and I am never upset. David Troppens

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for the true "baseball fan"!, January 15, 1999

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This review is from: Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit (Great Lakes Books) (Hardcover)

Mr. Bak outdoes himself on this spellbinding autobiography of 22 "greats" of Baseball Legends. Few writers can make the pictures and words come to life. Bak should be commended, as he does quite well at this. He not only gives the reader a sense of time and place, but prefaces players' interviews with a short history as well, and the paths the city and professional baseball took from the end of WWI through the early 50's. Beautiful and yet haunting pictures of the way baseball was. An extra bonus was the almost-forgotten Black professional teams as well. Good reading, and one you'll go back to read and reference time after time after time.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books about the Tigers, December 20, 2007

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This review is from: Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit (Paperback)

I'll just echo what others have said - Bak's book is wonderful. It combines a narrative history of the Tigers from the late 20s through the early 50s, recounting the glory years of the 1930s in greatest detail. The second part of the book is a series of oral histories with Tiger greats and unknowns during this period. It is very well written and organized, and for anyone interested in baseball during this period is a sure bet.