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Stump was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado.He began his sportswriting career while attending the University of Wisconsin.Stump became a war correspondent during World War II, after which he wrote about sports for True and Esquire magazines and worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Los Angeles Times.
The film is told through the partnership between Cobb and sportswriter Al Stump who served as a ghostwriter of Cobb's autobiography. Some critics lauded the film and Jones's performance, but the box office results for the film were underwhelming, grossing little over $1 million on a budget of $25.5 million.
A noted case is the book written by sportswriter Al Stump in the months after Cobb died in 1961. Stump was later discredited when it became known that he had stolen items belonging to Cobb and also betrayed the access Cobb gave him in his final months. [144]
"The Last Days of Ty Cobb" by sportswriter Al Stump, which appeared in an issue of True in 1961, coincided with an autobiography of baseball great Ty Cobb published that year that the two men had collaborated on during the last months of Cobb's life.
Stump is a surname. It is commonly found as an Anglicized version of the German names 'Stumpf', 'Stumph', and other variations. Notable people with the surname include: Al Stump (1916–1995), American author and sports writer
The Anniston Moulders were a minor league baseball team based in Anniston, Alabama.From 1913 to 1917, the "Moulders" played as members of the Class D level Georgia–Alabama League.
Al Stump (1916–1995), American author and sports writer Al J Venter (born 1938), South African war journalist, documentary filmmaker and author Al Weisel (1963–2010), American freelance writer
[64] Howell was reported to have offered a bribe to Parish, which as described in Al Stump's biography of Cobb, was a $40 ($1,263 in current dollar terms) suit. Parish refused the offer and the resulting uproar ended in O'Connor and Howell being banned from the major leagues by AL President Ban Johnson.