Cobra

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Dave Parker played nineteen seasons in the Major Leagues and was the first million-dollar-per-year player. He lives in Ohio, where he has created the Dave Parker 39 Foundation, an organization focused on finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Dave Jordan is a writer and filmmaker living in New Jersey. He has written for Sporting News, SB Nation, and the Hardball Times, and he is the coauthor (with John D’Acquisto) of Fastball John.

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Cobra is the autobiography of Dave Parker, one of baseball’s greatest and most controversial players in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the peak of Black participation in Major League Baseball.

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Preface
Prologue: Pittsburgh, September 11, 1985

1. My Beautiful Balloon
2. Buckeye Battle Cry
3. My Cherie Amour
4. Everybody Is a Star
5. Are You Experienced?
6. Gotta Get Over the Hump
7. Brother, Brother, Brother
8. Mr. Bojangles
9. Here I Am
10. Black Water
11. Higher Ground
12. Me and Baby Brother
13. The Sound of Philadelphia
14. Show Me the Way
15. Starchild Here!!!
16. Take Me to the Next Phase (Part 1)
17. Take Me to the Next Phase (Part 2)
18. The Ohio Players
19. One Nation under a Groove
20. Family
21. This Is Your Life
22. Fame
23. Funkytown
24. If You Ever Wondered
25. Trouble Man
26. You Dropped a Bomb on Me
27. The Time Has Come Today
    Epilogue: Everyday People
    Acknowledgments