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.
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.