Ty Cobb : Safe at Home

Ty Cobb: Safe at Home takes readers inside the private, off-season life of the man described as the world's greatest baseball player. Long revered as a great hitter and an incredibly fast base runner, Ty Cobb was the first athlete inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He overcame a family shooting tragedy (his mother went on trial for killing his father) and emerged from rural, north Georgia to become one of the first sports celebrities to profit from commercial endorsements and the first athlete to appear in a movie. Cobb endured a baseball scandal and didn't always handle his fame well. But he was a far more complex character than the hated, racist, lonely old man depicted in other biographies.

DON RHODES is publications editor of Morris Communications Co. based in Augusta, Georgia. He is also known for Ramblin' Rhodes, the longest running country music column in America, now in its 36th year. His articles have appeared in many daily newspapers and national magazines, and he has been nominated several times to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in the non-performer category. Don lives in North Augusta, South Carolina.