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The Ty Cobb Museum Hosted a Book Signing for HEART of a TIGER, written by Herschel Cobb |
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| The Ty Cobb Museum once hosted a book signing and reception for Mr. Herschel Cobb, grandson of baseball great Tyrus Raymond Cobb, with several Cobb family members on hand for the occasion. The museum periodically hosts author events and receptions like this one - see the museum's official site for current hours and any upcoming events. At the time, Herschel Cobb lived in Menlo Park, California along with his wife Lynn, and two grown children who inherited a love of athletics: their son, also named Tyrus Raymond Cobb, played basketball at Occidental College, and their daughter Madelyn competed in Polo, following her maternal great-grandfather's own place in the Polo Hall of Fame. There’s no place like home Ty Cobb is a baseball immortal, considered by many the greatest player who ever lived. In an age when the game was young and tough, he cultivated a reputation as the fiercest competitor of them all. Yet after he retired, he realized that the very qualities that had helped him reach the pinnacle of his profession also undermined his relationship with his own children. |
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| Herschel Cobb grew up in a chaotic, destructive household. His father was cruel and abusive, and his mother was an adulterous alcoholic. After his father died when Herschel was eight, he began to spend a portion of each summer with his grandfa-ther. Along with his sister and brother, Herschel visited Ty Cobb at his home in Atherton, California, or at his cabin at Lake Tahoe. These days were filled with ad-ventures and discoveries as “Granddaddy” warmed to having his “three redheads” with him. Heart of a Tiger is Herschel Cobb’s moving account of how a retired sports star seized a second chance at having a close family, with his grandchildren the luck re-cipients of his change of heart. He proved the enormous power of a grandparent to provide stability, love and guidance, and in doing so developed another wholly dif-ferent legacy. Phone: 706-245-1825 - Address: Ty Cobb Museum, 461 Cook St, Royston, GA 30662 |
