William ($Bill) R Cobb

Ron has also edited and published five baseball biographies including Ty Cobb: Two Biographies by H. G. Salsinger (McFarland, 2012) and Honus Wagner: On his Life and Baseball by Honus Wagner (Ann Arbor Media, 2006). In 2010, Ron authored a breakthrough article entitled "The Georgia Peach--Stumped by the Storyteller," in The National Pastime. The article won the 2010 National McFarland/SABR award for the best baseball history research article of the year. Ron later expanded the research and...See more

Ron has also edited and published five baseball biographies including Ty Cobb: Two Biographies by H. G. Salsinger (McFarland, 2012) and Honus Wagner: On his Life and Baseball by Honus Wagner (Ann Arbor Media, 2006). In 2010, Ron authored a breakthrough article entitled "The Georgia Peach--Stumped by the Storyteller," in The National Pastime. The article won the 2010 National McFarland/SABR award for the best baseball history research article of the year. Ron later expanded the research and published it in 2013 book form with the same title. See less