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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.
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.
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.
Cobb told Gehringer he needed more "pepper" and should "chatter like the rest of the infield." Cobb became peeved when Gehringer replied that "there were enough people talking and saying nothing." [7] Gehringer later described Cobb as "a real hateful guy." (Al Stump, Cobb: The Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball (1994), p ...
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. [8]
Peach: Ty Cobb In His Time And Ours. Sports Media Group. ISBN 1-58726-257-6. Jones, David (2006). "Hubert Benjamin 'Dutch' Leonard", in Deadball Stars of the American League, SABR, Potomac Books. Stump, Al (1994). Cobb: The Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
[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 .