Taking A Look At Tyy Cobb
Loving sports my whole life and having an Uncle that played Division 1 baseball, I often heard stories and learned about great athletes such as Ty Cobb, and other famous athletes such as Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson they all amazed me as a kid and I looked up to them and wanted to acquire the same status in sports as they did. Often you don’t here the stories behind the athlete’s lives how they grew up, what they had to overcome, or the problems they never really got over. It interests me to learn the person behind the athlete. The Movie Cobb (Ron Shelton 1994) tells the story of Ty Cobb one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived and about a man named Al stump that is writing a biography on Mr. Cobb. While watching the movie I started to notice many things about the personality Ty Cobb that he didn’t embody any of the things that make an athlete great. Most people would consider a great athlete as someone who
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You realize this at the very beginning of the movie when he’s shooting a gun in his own house, and this point is solidified through out the rest of the movie “He was oblivious to the carnage he left in his wake” (Shelton 1994). All this could have come from his mass amounts of wealth and power, and being able to get away with everything that he did because of who he was. Money, power, and reputation seemed to be the only things that mattered to Cobb.
He also had awful social character, when in public Cobb often acted in a rebellious, violent, or racist manner offending everyone around him, he also thought he could just pull a gun on anyone he wanted if he wasn’t getting his way. This also tied into not caring about the consequences of his actions and not caring about anyone else except for himself. He was a very selfish man often referring to himself as the greatest baseball player to ever live and thinking he could do whatever he wanted because of his
You realize this at the very beginning of the movie when he’s shooting a gun in his own house, and this point is solidified through out the rest of the movie “He was oblivious to the carnage he left in his wake” (Shelton 1994). All this could have come from his mass amounts of wealth and power, and being able to get away with everything that he did because of who he was. Money, power, and reputation seemed to be the only things that mattered to Cobb.
He also had awful social character, when in public Cobb often acted in a rebellious, violent, or racist manner offending everyone around him, he also thought he could just pull a gun on anyone he wanted if he wasn’t getting his way. This also tied into not caring about the consequences of his actions and not caring about anyone else except for himself. He was a very selfish man often referring to himself as the greatest baseball player to ever live and thinking he could do whatever he wanted because of his