Ty cobb a biography of beethoven

Cobb a biography of Ty Cobb by Al Stump, his long time friend has been hailed as the best baseball biography ever.

With an MVP and Triple Crown under his belt by the age of 25, Cobb went on to produce statistics that still lead MLB in several categories, including 4,

Ty Cobb: Two Biographies--""Our Ty: Ty Cobb's Life Story"" () and ""Which Was Greatest: Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth?"" (): by H.G. Salsinger.

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In my hectic pre-holiday-travel mental state, I was at a loss to come up with a theme for today’s “This Week in History” posting. Let’s just call this week’s theme “Classical Music of the Revolutionary War as Performed by Ty Cobb in His Turn as the Finnish Scrouge in A Christmas Carol in Scandinavia, Co-starring Branch Rickey in Space.” Sound good? Great! Now, let’s see what happened&#;

This Week in History

December 16, Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany.
If you’re nuts for this Ninth Symphony composer, you’ll want to snag copies of The Critical Reception of Beethoven&#;s Compositions by His German Contemporaries, Volume 1and Volume 2.

December 17, : America&#;s independence is recognized by France.
To read a stirring account of major battles in America’s fight for independence as well as countless other major U.S. battles from Revolutionary War times to the outbreak of World War II, check out J.F.C. Fuller’s Decisive Battles of the U.S.A., .

December 18, Ty Cobb, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, was born in Narrows, Georgia.
Pick up a copy of My Life in Baseball: The True Record, Ty Cobb’s autobiography in a Bison Books edition from the University of Nebraska Press. The Los Angeles Daily News called it “one of the most

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Beethoven: The Universal Composer

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By Edmund Morris

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From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author, “an ideal starting point toward ultimate Beethoven appreciation” (Entertainment Weekly).

Ludwig van Beethoven (–) was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven’s most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston.

Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of Beethoven, brings the great composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was not so much a social rebel as an astute manipulator of the most powerful and privileged aristocrats in Germany and Austria, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

But Beethoven’s achievement rests in his immortal music. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to kee