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Cobb : a biography / by Stump, Al.(CARDINAL)373183;
Includes bibliographical references (page 423) and index."The life and times of the meanest man who ever played baseball"--Jacket subtitle.
Subjects: Biographies.; Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961.; Baseball players;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 21
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The greatest baseball stories ever told : thirty unforgettable tales from the diamond / edited and with an introduction by Jeff Silverman. by Angell, Roger.(CARDINAL)711820; Barber, Red,1908-1992.(CARDINAL)125719; Costello, Lou.(CARDINAL)710854; Kinsella, W. P.(CARDINAL)716440; Lardner, Ring,1885-1933.(CARDINAL)139410; Silverman, Jeff,1950-(CARDINAL)347457; Smith, Red,1905-1982.(CARDINAL)524674; Stump, Al.(CARDINAL)373183; Talese, Gay.(CARDINAL)151917; Updike, John.(CARDINAL)138921;
A collection of essays, profiles, and stories about baseball features some of the best writing on the game.
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Baseball players.; Baseball stories.; Baseball;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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4 film favorites: [videorecording] Tommy Lee Jones collection. U. S. Marshals, The Client, Space Cowboys, Cobb. / by Jones, Tommy Lee,1946-act(CARDINAL)348246; Snipes, Wesley.act(CARDINAL)347120; Downey, Robert,1965-act; Pantoliano, Joe.act(CARDINAL)532934; Nelligan, Kate,1951-act(CARDINAL)847869; Wood, Tom(Thomas)act; Baird, Stuart.drt; Pogue, John.aus; Lazar, Andrew.film producer(CARDINAL)344066; Kaufman, Kenneth.film producerscreenwriter(CARDINAL)431301; Klausner, Howard.screenwriter(CARDINAL)541063; Eastwood, Clint,1930-film directoractorfilm producer(CARDINAL)348285; Sutherland, Donald,1935-actor(CARDINAL)749121; Garner, James.actor(CARDINAL)280750; Harden, Marcia Gay.actor(CARDINAL)340687; Devane, William,1939-actor; Dean, Loren,1969-actor; Vance, Courtney B.actor(CARDINAL)340058; Cromwell, James.actor(CARDINAL)785899; Niehaus, Lennie.composer (expression); Schumacher, Joel,1939-film director(CARDINAL)370730; Sarandon, Susan,1946-actor(CARDINAL)182764; Renfro, Brad,1982-2008.actor; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Grisham, John.The client.; Shelton, Ron,1945-film director,screenwriter.; Wuhl, Robert,actor; Davidovich, Lolita,actor(CARDINAL)810048; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Stump, Al.Cobb: the life and times of the meanest man in baseball.; Clipsal Films.production company; Kopelson Entertainment (Firm)production company; Mad Chance (Firm)production company; Malpaso (Company)production company(CARDINAL)784803; Village Roadshow Pictures.production company(CARDINAL)340620; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )production company; Warner Bros.presenter; Warner Home Video (Firm)film distributor(CARDINAL)218485;
Cobb: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich.Space Cowboys: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden, William Devane, Loren Dean, Courtney B. Vance.The Client: Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia, Anthony Edwards, Ossie Davis.U. S. Marshals: Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Kate Nelligan, Tom Wood, Irene Jacob.Cobb: Baseball legend Ty Cobb asks sportswriter Al Stump to write his biography. Cobb lives down to his reputation as an extremely difficult person. While driving across the country to a banquet at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cobb's gun wielding, drinking and drug use get them into many scrapes and he also tells Stump about his life. Stump writes both the version Cobb dictates to him and the version of Cobb he himself sees. He only publishes Cobb's version.Space Cowboys: They had trained body and mind for America's leap into space. But when the moment came, they were replaced. Now, 40 years later, another moment has come and this time it's all theirs. These old-school test pilots whose grasp of outdated technology makes them the only ones able to repair a primitive, deorbiting Russian satellite that imperils Earth.The Client: Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnessed the suicide of a New Orleans attorney. Before he died he told Mark a deadly secret about the recent murder of a Louisiana senator whose accused killer, a Mafia thug, is about to go to trial. Mark hires a lawyer, Reggie Love, who loves helping kids overlooked or abused by the system.U. S. Marshals: U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when the FBI's John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.MPAA Ratings: U. S. Marshals, The Client, Space Cowboys: PG-13. Cobb: R. DVD, Region 1, widescreen.
Subjects: Adventure films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Science fiction films.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Legal drama (Films).; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Sports films.; Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961; Feature films.; Test pilots; Technology and civilization; Space flight; Artificial satellites; Mafia; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Lawyers; Feature films.; Mafia; Baseball players; Stump, Al; Sports journalism; Baseball;
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The education of a golfer / by Snead, Sam,1912-2002.(CARDINAL)521556;
Subjects: Golf.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My life in baseball : the true record / by Cobb, Ty,1886-1961.(CARDINAL)175619;
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961.; Baseball;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Heart of a tiger : growing up with my grandfather, Ty Cobb / by Cobb, Herschel.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Cobb, Herschel; Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961; Baseball players; Grandparent and child.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Creation or evolution? [videorecording] /
Music Al Killebrew ; art director Ric McNair.Host John Halford.Can the Bible's account of creation be reconciled with modern scientific? Presents an analysis of both the gelopgical record and the biblical account of creation, from a Christian perspective.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Bible and evolution.; Bible and science.; Religion and science.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Heart of the game : an illustrated celebration of the american, 1946-1960 / by Jurinko, Andy.(CARDINAL)471963;
Subjects: Baseball;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The best American sports writing of the century / by Halberstam, David.(CARDINAL)139130; Stout, Glenn,1958-(CARDINAL)358946;
The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese -- The last American hero / Tom Wolfe -- What do you think of Ted Williams now? / Richard Ben Cramer -- The day Bobby blew it / Brad Darrach -- Sport for art's sake / Heywood Broun -- The Olympic army / Westbrook Pegler -- Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine -- Game called / Grandland Rice -- All the way to the grave / Frank Graham -- Next to godliness ; Miracle of Coogan's Bluff ; Jim and his baubles ; The Baby was always a boy-- one of a kind ; And all Dizzy's yesterdays / Red Smith -- One strike is out / Stanley Woodward -- Sal Maglie--a gracious man / Murray Kempton -- Obit on the Dodgers / Dick Young -- If you're expecting one-liners / Jim Murray -- Oh, no! Not another boring interview with Steve Carlton / Diane K. Shah -- The LaMotta nuptials / Ira Berkow -- "A very solid book" / Mike Royko -- Eckie / Ring Lardner -- Lethal lightning / Jimmy Cannon -- Brownsville bum / W.C. Heinz -- Mr. Rickey and the game / Gerald Holland -- The rocky road of Pistol Pete ; The ghost of the gridiron / W.C. Heinz -- Lone wolf of tennis / Dick Schaap -- "The Haig": rowdy rebel of the fairways / John Lardner -- Racing's angriest young man / Jimmy Breslin -- Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike -- The fight to live / Al Stump -- A rough time on the road / Stan Fischler -- The longest silence / Thomas McGuane -- The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved / Hunter S. Thompson -- Centre court / John McPhee -- Butkus / Arthur Kretchmer -- Gone for good / Roger Angell -- There was only one Casey / Wells Twombley -- Pain ; No más / Tom Boswell -- Medora goes to the game / George Plimpton -- The rabbit hunter ; The boxer and the blonde / Frank Deford -- The September song of Mr. October / David Remnick -- A brother's keeper / Mike Lupica -- Pure heart / William Nack -- The making of a goon / Johnette Howard -- The power and the glory / Paul Solotaroff -- Tangled up in blue / Peter Richmond -- The chosen one / Gary Smith -- Into thin air / Jon Krakauer -- Resurrecting the champ / J.R. Moehringer -- The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton -- Muhammad Ali then and now / Dick Schaap -- Ego / Norman Mailer -- Weird site for a fight / Jim Murray -- "Lawdy, lawdy, he's great" / Mark Kram -- My dinner with Ali / Davis Miller.
Subjects: Fiction.; Literature.; Sports literature; Sports stories, American.; Sports stories.; Sports;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The Twentieth century treasury of sports / by Silverman, Al.(CARDINAL)128083; Silverman, Brian.(CARDINAL)369007;
incourt and after / Roger Angell -- The rookie / Eliot Asinof -- Love me, love my bear / Russell Baker -- The fight : Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin -- The four-minute mile / Roger Bannister -- Seaside golf / John Betjeman -- The ambivalence of ivory / H.G. Bissinger -- Mr. Jack Nicklaus / Tom Boswell -- Hey, ball four / Jim Bouton -- The Hector Quesadilla story / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- After the applause / Bill Bradley -- The good life of Mr. Fitz / Jimmy Breslin -- Archie / Jimmy Cannon -- The death of Manolete / Barnaby Conrad -- George Ruth's first day as a professional / Robert W. Creamer -- The knee / Robert Daley -- The depression baby / Frank Deford -- Game day / Don DeLillo -- The bee / James Dickey -- Goalies are different / Ken Dryden -- The masked playboy vs. the grim reaper / Stanley Elkin -- The battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- Idols and obsessions / Frederick Exley -- Kentucky : May : Saturday / William Faulkner -- The bowl / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Sympathy for the devil / Joe Flaherty -- At the Lido Gym / Leonard Gardner -- The ancient mariner / Brian Glanville -- Requiem for a globetrotter / Peter Goldman -- Cruncher / Sandy Grady -- The catch / Arnold Hano -- Labor Day doubleheader / Mark Harris -- Fighter's wife / W.C. Heinz -- Better hurt than dead / Ed Hinton -- Fool / John Huston -- The coach speaketh / Dan Jenkins -- The tryout / Pat Jordan -- The ten years of Jackie Robinson / Roger Kahn -- Going for a perfect game / William Kennedy -- Brooklyn August / Stephen King -- 400-meter freestyle / Maxine Kumin -- Wills vs. Lenglen / Al Laney -- The roller derby / John Lardner -- Champion / Ring Lardner -- Decathlon man / Primo Levi -- Donnybrook Farr / A.J. Liebling -- The kid's last game / Ed Linn -- Is Connors a killer? / Robert Lipsyte -- The waves at Waikiki / Jack London -- Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías / Federico García Lorca -- Ego / Norman Mailer -- Helpful hints / Jim Murray -- A coming of age / William Nack -- Fixer's home / Jay Neugeboren -- Rape and the boxing ring / Joyce Carol Oates -- Sadaharu Oh's final bow / Sadaharu Oh and David Falkner -- The sporting spirit / George Orwell -- Bear Bryant's miracles / Richard Price -- Pride and poison / Linda Robertson -- Oh, to be a center fielder / Philip Roth -- Bred for battle / Damon Runyon -- Champions / Bill Russell -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw -- Miracle of Coogan's bluff / Red Smith -- Fight to live / Al Stump -- Hockey miracle / E.M. Swift -- The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese -- Foster Park / Rick Telander -- England! England! / Rose Tremain -- Poem for my father / Quincy Troupe -- The mother of a champion / John R. Tunis -- My fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney -- How clear a green the grass was / Anne Tyler -- Farrell's caddie / John Updike -- October in Miami, Ohio / Mark Winegardner -- At Galway Races / W.B. Yeats.
Subjects: Literature.; Sports; American literature;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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