Quotes About Cobb

Cobb was "jabbering all over the place" and practically hornpiping with glee. "What will the Babe say about this trick by Ty, five in two games?" (The feat has been equaled by several players since but has never been surpassed.)

Of the five Cobb children, Shirley, who ran a bookstore for many years in Palo Alto, was the most similar to her father, which may explain her particularly harsh assessments of him.)

the veteran catcher Moe Berg, a New Yorker who graduated from Princeton and Columbia Law school and was a frequent houseguest of Cobb's in Augusta, would call him "an intellectual giant").

Loomis, the longest-tenured Time, Inc., employee, still worked at the magazine while I was researching this book, and when I asked her about Cobb, with whom she'd also gone on a second date to an old-timers game at Yankee Stadium, she directed me toward a memoir she'd written in which she described him as "smart and gentlemanly." He'd been deeply impressed, she said, with her knowledge of baseball.

Cobb's well-deserved reputation as a bibliophile (he couldn't resist biographies of Napoleon) sometimes resulted in him receiving books instead of trophies or flowers.

Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.

His curse was his homeliness; his editor at The World , Irwin Cobb, once caught sight of a mounted moose head and cried, "My God, they've shot Frank Adams!