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A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes with this gripping look at a man who walked the line between greatness and psychosis. Based on Stump's interviews with Ty Cobb while ghostwriting the Hall-of-Famer's 1961 autobiography, this award-winning new account of Cobb's life and times reveals both the darkness and the brilliance of the "Georgia Peach." "The most powerful baseball biography I have read."--Roger Kahn, author of THE BOYS OF SUMMER
- Sales Rank: #662513 in eBooks
- Published on: 1996-01-03
- Released on: 1996-01-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
Amazon.com Review
Not long before his death, Ty Cobb, as complex and haunted a human being as ever stepped onto a diamond, tapped a young writer named Al Stump to collaborate with him on his autobiography. The result, My Life in Baseball: The True Record, never came close to reaching first base; with Cobb (holder of the game's highest lifetime batting average and lowest lifetime reputation) calling the signals, it was an antiseptic whitewash, as false as its titular claim would have you believe otherwise. Hidden between the lines was the living hell that Cobb--reclusive, bitter, ravaged with cancer, in great pain, and shunned by the baseball community--put Stump through to make sure his demon-filled story was properly sanitized.
Some 30 years later, Stump brilliantly wrought his revenge with the best tool a writer can wield: absolute honesty. In Cobb, he rectifies his earlier cover-up and paints an unforgettable portrait of an unforgettable character: The Georgia Peach--pits and all. Not only does Stump painstakingly assemble the disparate pieces of Cobb's tangled personality and storied career, he also recounts in scrupulous detail the literal wild ride that comprised his months in the company of the dying baseball legend. It is, from its opening inscription ("To get along with me," Cobb told Stump, "don't increase my tension"), a tour de force, as good a sports biography as exists, and an altogether riveting telling of a riveting life. --Jeff Silverman
From Publishers Weekly
Stump, Ty Cobb's ghostwriter for the 1961 autobiography My Life in Baseball, fleshes out the story in this bare-knuckle, shocking biography. Born in Georgia in 1886, Cobb began his baseball career with the Detroit Tigers in 1905 and stayed in the big leagues until 1928-all the time hated by his rivals and teammates alike because of his meanness and combativeness. The author portrays the highlights of Cobb's career: his first batting championship in 1907; his 96 stolen bases in 1915; and his three .400 seasons in 1911, 1912 and 1922. Stump also looks at Cobb's involvement in game-fixing in 1919, his time as a manager and his activities after retiring. He died in 1961. The most sensational aspects of the book deal with Cobb's personal life: his mother's murder of his father, millionaire Cobb's cheapness (no electricity or telephone in his house), wife beating, alcoholism and racial bigotry. Stump has written a biography of the "Georgia Peach" that will stun readers with its brutal candor. Photos. 25,000 first printing.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Baseball great Ty Cobb was considered a borderline psychopath, both on the field and off. Noted sportswriter Stump collaborated with Cobb in his 1961 autobiography, My Life in Baseball. Here, Stump succeeds in producing the definitive biography of this mercurial man. Most of the details of Cobb's life are familiar to baseball fans, but Stump goes beyond the basic facts and accepted truisms and delves into many areas the ordinary fan may not be aware of. The story of the killing of Cobb's father by his mother remains a mystery, but Stump recounts the incident exhaustively, along with many others. Ultimately, the reader can fathom why Cobb evolved into the most hated man in baseball. It is said that genius is often tinged with madness; in Cobb's case that is certainly true. Reading Cobb's autobiography along with this book presents an interesting contrast. Highly recommended for all libraries.
William O. Scheeren, Hempfield Area H.S. Lib., Greensburg, Pa.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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48 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
A pack of lies.
By K. D. Madden
I just watched the movie "Cobb" which was based on this book. Very entertaining as was the book. Only trouble is, it is mostly fiction. Al Stump was an alcoholic hack who was lucky enough to get the job of ghostwriting Cobb's autobiography. Thereafter he turned this brief success into a cottage industry. A magazine article, a second book, and a movie deal, etc. All more sensational than the last. He gained a reputation as "THE Cobb Expert" and made a career out of it.
Some of the lies told in the book and screenplay:
Mickey Cochrane was portrayed as a pitiful bum who Cobb supported for many years. Cochrane's family vehemently disputes this. His wife said that Cobb once loaned Mickey some money which was repaid. Cochrane did show up at the Hall Of Fame ceremonies without a tuxedo one year simply because he didn't know he needed one and Cobb was nice enough to provide one. Cochrane was one of Cobb's closest friends. He attended Cobb's funeral. It is a shame that his reputation was besmirched after his death.
Dr. Rex Teeslink of Augusta,Georgia attended Cobb the last three months as a medical student. Dr. Teeslink says he say none of the wild behavior Stump describes. None of the others who treated him saw crazy behavior either. No one saw a gun. One young nurse who sat up all night with him two months before he died said he was very pleasant. Just a sick old man in pain who couldn't sleep. He gladly signed a couple of baseballs for her. Was he a difficult patient at times? I expect so. So are a lot of sick people.
Stump describes a falling out with Ted Williams over a petty disagreement after which they never spoke again. Williams said Stump was "full of it". He and Cobb remained friends to the end.
Stump pretends he was Cobb's constant and only companion the last 14 months, when the truth is they would meet occasionally for a few days at one of Cobb's homes or at Stump's place. Hardly a constant companion. Stump last saw Cobb three months before he died.
As for the memorabilia scandal, Stump had a lot of Cobb's personal items which it is suspected that he stole. He created a myth about his fabulous Cobb collection and he began selling an endless number. He made a mint. It is now well known that hundreds of items were forgeries. He even sold Cobb's so called wristwatch which had stopped at the moment of his death! He would be in prison had he not had the good sense to die first.
Read this book and watch the movie as fictional entertainment if you wish. I would guess some of the sensational stuff has basis in fact, but is overblown and most is sheer fabrication. Stump was a known liar, a known forger, and suspected thief. A man of no character. I would not believe one word he says.
As for Cobb, it is well known that he was a racist, a hard drinker, a terrible husband and father, and generally disagreeable much of the time. It is also a fact that he had a lot of friends despite what his enemies say. His funeral was poorly attended only because it was private. Ty could also be kind and generous. A brilliant businessman who amassed a fortune. He left much of his money to charity. A great and complex man. He has to own his misdeeds, but to be piled on after his death with blatant lies is unfair.
43 of 47 people found the following review helpful.
Book of salacious lies!
By Kenneth Wayne Stallings
In 2010, William R. Cobb (no relation to the player Ty Cobb), conducted objective research for an article published in the American Baseball Research periodical. This article was shocking because it contained forensic evidence that Al Stump engaged in outrageous and deliberate fraud in writing lies to put profit ahead of integrity. Stump was hired by Ty Cobb to be his ghostwriter for Cobb's auto-biography. This is a common practice where a professional writer takes down the oral history of a person and then types the manuscript and proofs it for punctuation, accuracy, and readability. Stump performed this role by spending several months with Cobb just prior to his death. This auto-biography essentially explored Cobb's philosophy of baseball and how it should be played.
However, Stump almost immediately revealed a sinister intention. Stump prepared another manuscript, hidden from Cobb, in which he supposedly documented a series of outrageous stories Stump attributed to Ty Cobb. The two most notorious of these assertions is that Ty Cobb's mother did not shoot her husband and Cobb's father by accident, but that rather he was shot by her adulterous lover who used a shotgun to deliberately murder Ty Cobb's father.
The second notorious story told by Stump was that Cobb murdered a would-be mugger with his bare hands, beating him and leaving him for dead.
These two stories were revealed as completely fabricated by William Cobb's research. First, the period court records, coroner's report, and police record show that Ty Cobb's father was killed by a pistol, not a shotgun. Despite this truth, Al Stump actually sold a memorabilia collector a shotgun which Stump claimed was the shotgun used to kill Cobb's father! Stump had to know this was a lie. Worse, William Cobb's research proved through handwriting analysis that Al Stump forged documents purported by Stump to have been written by Cobb and Stump then sold these many documents to other collectors. Further, Stump stole many actual artifacts from Cobb's estate shortly after the player's death. Stump claimed that Cobb gave him permission to take these many items, but there was no proof of this claim. Regardless, it is clear that Cobb never gave Stump permission to forge his name!
In terms of the asserted murder that Cobb performed, Stump claimed in his biography that Cobb confessed to this crime. This story remained out of the auto-biography that Stump wrote, but was asserted in this biography written after Cobb's death. The researcher William Cobb determined that on the day that Stump's story alleged this murder took place, there was no police or news reports of any body discovered anywhere close to the area where Stump claimed the murder took place. Even in that period of time, and even if a person is of low repute such as a mugger, a body left in an alleyway in a city is going to be discovered and the police will document its finding. Almost certainly a newspaper would discover the police report of a body discovered and report on it. Even allowing for days of delay, William Cobb's research confirms there was no body discovered that remotely matches Stump's assertions.
If this was the sole issue, then it could be forgiven as Stump repeating something Cobb told him. Even then, Stump would have been wrong to fail to conduct the same research that William Cobb performed. A proper biography never relies upon a single source, including the subject of the biography. Instead, you always seek to confirm information and this is essential whenever critical facts of a criminal nature are alleged. At minimum, Stump should have researched and determined there was zero corroborating data to support the story, and if Cobb truly told it to Stump, then Stump should have mentioned the complete lack of confirming information. To omit this at best reveals Stump's work as unprofessional. At worst, it indicates that Stump's work was a salacious act of libel!
But, this biography gets even worse. Stump purports that Ty Cobb was a man of notorious anger and possessing a vicious racism. However, there is a photograph of Ty Cobb standing with his youngest son shaking the hand of Jackie Robinson. The look on Cobb's face is one of respect and mutual happiness in meeting Robinson. Cobb is clearly smiling and looking respectful and his son is also appearing happy and respectful. It looks like many photos taken of retired star baseball players greeting a current star player with mutual respect.
Stump is the one who told the story of how Cobb attacked a man in the stands, who lacked arms. This is not fabricated as it did happen, but Stump's telling of the events is selective and designed to cast Cobb in the worst possible light. Cobb's own fellow players tell a more balanced narrative. They say that the fan was being particularly malicious and insulting to Cobb and that Cobb repeatedly asked stadium security (at a visiting ballpark) to have the man removed. However, security refused to cooperate. Finally, the heckler insulted Cobb's mother in a manner that gentlemen of the time simply did not do. That is when Cobb went into the stands and beat the man.
Al Stump also left out a critical truth of Cobb's career that he was subjected to cruel harassment by several of his fellow Detroit Tiger players for his first years with the team. Cobb endured this with professional silence. Cobb was clearly the best player on the Tigers even during his rookie season and by the end of the season the Tiger's manager ordered the veteran players to lay off Cobb because the team did not want to run him off.
In addition, Stump seems to have deliberately inflated the truth of Cobb's manner of play of the field. To read period statements of fellow players, Cobb was a no-nonsense player who simply did not tolerate anything less than 100% professional play to win a game. But, it is very doubtful that Cobb was deliberately seeking to injure other players. Further, Stump seems to have completely fabricated the assertion that Cobb and fellow Hall of Famer Ted Williams had a falling out. Well before his own death, Ted Williams completely rejected Stump's assertion, saying that Stump was "full of it," and confirming for the record that he and Cobb remained close friends of mutual respect throughout Cobb's life.
Other assertions against catcher Mickey Cochrain were firmly rejected by Cochrain's own family. But, Stump's story could have been toned down and showed Cobb in a favorable light as Cobb did once loan money to Cochrain and did purchase him a tuxedo when Cochrain arrived at a Hall of Fame dinner not realizing it called for a tuxedo. But, Cochrain was not a bum who mooched off Cobb constantly (as Stump asserted) and Cochrain's family confirms that even that single loan by Cobb was fully repaid.
Lastly, Stump asserted that Cobb's behavior as a player so alienated his fellow players that they refused to attend his funeral. In this telling, Stump made note of the true fact that only three former players attended Cobb's funeral. However, Stump once again engaged in shameless dishonesty by failing to note that Cobb's family asked that MLB not send former players to the funeral because they were mindful of the circus innocently created by throngs of people attending the funerals of other period players such as Honus Wagner and Cy Young. Cobb's family wanted the funeral to remain a family affair, intimate and personal. So, they asked newspapers to print respectful requests that people not in Cobb's family decline to attend. It was therefore out of respect for the family's own request, that MLB did not have hundreds of people attend. Instead, these many well wishing players followed the request and instead sent written notices of respect -- a fact Stump's book omitted.
In sum, based upon William Cobb's objective research, many narratives told by actual fellow players, and the forensic proof that Stump stole Cobb's baseball property and forged documents, both of which he sold, it seems very clear this book is one of the worst affronts in literary history. Al Stump sold his soul to make a quick buck off Cobb's fame. Stump simply wrote a hit piece to destroy the image of a man so that Stump could make money after his death.
This book does not deserve to sell another copy!
67 of 78 people found the following review helpful.
this book no longer has any credibility
By Mark bennett
However well written this book is, its author has been totally disgraced and can no longer be considered any sort of trustworthy source for anything to do with Ty Cobb. Al Stump has been revealed in a variety of sources to have been a forger of memorabilia and documents related to Ty Cobb. In The National Pastime, the official publication of the Society for American Baseball Research, his reputation was completely destroyed in 2010.
He forged a Cobb diary that ended up being displayed prominently at the hall of fame until the FBI proved it was a fake in 2009. He even sold a shotgun he claimed was the gun that killed Cobbs father. The eventual problem being that Cobb's father wasn't killed by a shotgun.
We are left in a situation now where its difficult to know where to begin reconstructing who Ty Cobb was. The author of this book has so clouded the perception of who he was, that getting back to anything like the truth is going to be enormously difficult. But the first step toward the truth is banishing everything written by this person from being taken seriously.
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