Heart of a Tiger: Growing Up with My Grandfather, Ty Cobb

Heart of a Tiger: Growing Up With My Grandfather, Ty Cobb

Instead we see an alcoholic with adulterous tendencies that frequently enraged Herschel senior and led to the children being placed once more in a brutally harmful situation. At times she even states without hesitation that she doesn't love her children, and never wanted them in the first place.

The only light in this truly dark and devastating life is Ty Cobb, their grandfather, though he is dealing with his own demons and a troubled past that threatens to resurface. I'm going to start by saying that this is not a memoir that will only appeal to fans of sports, and in particular Major League Baseball.

In fact, when it comes to baseball I am absolutely clueless. It was only after reading this book that I did a Google search for Ty Cobb and found out that he was known as the Georgia Peach and was widely credited with setting 90 Major League Baseball records in his career, and keeping many of the records for half a century.

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Some are still held by him even now in Did I know any of this before? No, and I still didn't know much about his baseball career when I got to the end of this memoir.

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While baseball facts are sprinkled throughout the book especially towards the end the focus of this book remains on a more personal level, as provided by his family. I haven't read other books on Ty Cobb but definitely want to after reading this. The first half of the book deals primarily with the life that Herschel Jr the author experiences as a child, and it is tough to read in places. Personally I struggled more with the behaviours of their mother as it became obvious that she was truly indifferent when it came to the welfare of her children.

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When Herschel Sr passes away, Herschel Jr is just eight years old and I hoped with all my heart as I was reading that this boy would finally have some peace and a more positive life. In a sense he did but it's not from his mother.

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Rather it's in the form of summers spent with their paternal grandmother, and grandfather. Thus begins the rest of the book in which the focus is more on the relationship between the three siblings and the Grandfather, including time spent in Lake Tahoe at the family cabin.

It's here that we are permitted glimpses into a side of Ty Cobb that few were privy to and these glimpses led me to develop a deep respect for this man and his determination to offer his grandchildren the stability, love, and guidance that had been missing from their lives. The only relief Herschel and his siblings got from this abuse came in the summers when they were allowed to visit their grandfather at his grand home in Atherton, California, or at his cabin at Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Slowly but surely, the psychologically battered Cobb grandchildren learned to trust and then to love their grandfather, who was not a sports celebrity to them but a desperately needed source of kindness, understanding, and mutual love.

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One of the greatest achievements of the fierce Tiger, who neither gave nor asked for any quarter during his long baseball career, turned out to be the rescue of three grandchildren from a miserable start in life. This reclamation, as true love always is, was a two-way street, and it benefitted Cobb almost as much as the children.

This side of the Ty Cobb story is appropriately relegated to the background not only because it has been covered elsewhere, but also because it is in keeping with the point of view of the author: Cobb mastering his anger and avoiding a fight with a drunk who was cruising for a bruising, his quietly giving envelopes stuffed with hundred dollar bills to down-on-their-luck former teammates, and his providing substantial sums of money to fund hospitals and college scholarships. Of course, as these events unfolded, young Herschel did not realize the significance of them.

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It was only later, after he had begun to discover who his grandfather was to the wider world, that he understood there was a difference between the Ty Cobb he knew and loved and the one the public thought they knew. And that there was something he could do to bridge this gap. Part cathartic autobiography, part loving tribute and literary rehabilitation, Heart of a Tiger is a book that baseball fans will not soon forget.

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