Steven Elliott Tripp

"Ty Cobb called baseball a 'red-blooded game for red-blooded men, ' warning that 'molly coddles had better stay out.' 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...