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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]
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 ...
"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.
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.
a Major League Baseball has not revised Cobb's batting average, which would then designate Lajoie as the 1910 batting champion. The Sporting News wrote of statistical evidence showing Cobb's 1910 season statistics had been tampered with and he was given two extra base hits but MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn declined to announce Lajoie the winner. [83]
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
Stump Hollow Farm: No available image Hanna, Howard Melville Jr.(1877–1945) [205] and Jean Claire(1882-1973) Owners(1927 -1948) [206] President & Chairman of M. A. Hanna Company: 1927 6055-23 [102] Private Residence Walker and Weeks [207] 100: Kirtland Hills: 9011 Booth Road [208] Tract-1 Lot-37 [209] Manor House Farm [210] Morley Manor House ...