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During a visit to the Cobb family mausoleum in December 1960, Stump alleged that Cobb told him about the murder of his father, and pointed the finger at his mother. [4] Thirty years later, however, Stump published a new book (Cobb: The Life and Times of the Meanest Man in Baseball), which offered a very negative portrait of Cobb. In 1994, this ...
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]
Cobb is a 1994 American biographical sports drama film starring Tommy Lee Jones as baseball player Ty Cobb.The film was written and directed by Ron Shelton and based on a 1994 book by Al Stump.
"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.
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Al Stump, sportswriter; later a biographer of Ty Cobb; Ken Tucker, rock critic; Agness Underwood, reporter and then one of the first female city editors of a major metropolitan daily, at the predecessor Herald-Express; later an editor at the Herald Examiner; Nicole Yorkin, reporter; later television writer, producer; Gene Youngblood, critic
This narrative was given further credence from a passage in Al Stump's 1961 biography of Ty Cobb, which says that Cobb and Mathewson were both accidentally gassed during a chemical training exercise in Choignes, France where eight men died; Mathewson purportedly told Cobb afterwards that he had 'got a good dose of that stuff.
In front of the team, Cobb berated Leonard: "Don't you dare turn bolshevik on me. I'm the boss here." [4] Leonard accused Cobb of over-working him, and Cobb responded in July 1925 by leaving Leonard on the mound for an entire game despite Leonard's giving up 20 hits and taking a 12–4 beating. [5] After that, Leonard refused to pitch for Cobb.