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Alvin John Stump (October 20, 1916 – December 14, 1995), was an American author and sports writer. Stump spent time with Detroit Tigers ' Hall of Fame baseball player Ty Cobb in 1960 and 1961, collaborating on Cobb's autobiography.
In his 2015 book Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, author Charles Leerhsen asserts that the film is based on Al Stump's 1961 and 1994 biographies of Ty Cobb, books noted for glaring inaccuracies regarding Cobb's life, as well as a True magazine article, also by Stump, published after Cobb's death. When the author Leerhsen contacted director Shelton ...
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]
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"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; Alfred Stump (1860–1925), Australian photographer; Bob Stump (1927–2003), American congressman
Al Stump: 1994: Non-fiction The Fan: 1996: Tony Scott: USA: The Fan: Peter Abrahams: 1995: Novel For Love of the Game: 1999: Sam Raimi: USA: For Love of the Game: Michael Shaara: 1991: Novel American Pastime: 2007: Desmond Nakano: USA: Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball (uncredited) Kerry Yo Nakagawa [1] (uncredited ...
During this time, Cobb and Crawford had a student-teacher relationship. In interviews late in life with Al Stump, Cobb told of studying Crawford's base-stealing technique and of how Crawford would teach him about pursuing fly balls and throwing out base runners. Cobb said that he would always remember Crawford's kindness.