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Stump spent approximately three weeks with Ty Cobb over eleven months, researching the ballplayer's life. Cobb's autobiography that Stump coauthored, My Life in Baseball, came out a few months after Cobb's July 17, 1961, death and painted the former Tiger in a sympathetic light. Stump said afterward that he found Cobb difficult to work with ...
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]
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 remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.
Cricken's death was not the only controversy to come out of the book. The book also included an anecdote that she had met reclusive North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un during her time in Congress ...
Christian Juttner, the former child actor who began his early career in Hollywood in the 1970s, has died.He was 60. Juttner, who started working in TV several years before his starring role in ...
"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.
Noah Scurry, a 17-year-old basketball star at his Philadelphia high school, died after he was shot on the way to school. According to CBS and NBC Philadelphia, Scurry and his mother were on their ...