Cobb, Al Stump
Cobb, Al Stump
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Cobb
A Biography

Author: Al Stump

Narrator: Ian Esmo

Unabridged: 19 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2011

Synopsis

As a boy in the 1890s, he went looking for thrills in a rural Georgia that still burned with the humiliation of the Civil War. As an old man in the 1960s, he dared death, picked fights, refused to take his medicine, and drove off all his friends and admirers. He went to his deathbed alone, clutching a loaded pistol and a bag containing millions of dollars worth of cash and securities. During the years in between, he was, according to Al Stump, the most shrewd, inventive, lurid, detested, mysterious, and superb of all baseball players. He was Ty Cobb. Al Stump tells how the dying Cobb hired him in 1960 to ghostwrite his autobiography, giving him a fascinating window into the life and times of the Georgia Peach.

About Al Stump

Al Stump (1916–1995) was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. During World War II, he was a war correspondent, and afterward he worked as a sportswriter for national and regional publications, including Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, True Magazine, American Heritage, Los Angeles Magazine, and Sports Illustrated. He wrote—both independently and in collaboration with famous athletes—six books, including Ty Cobb’s My Life in Baseball, Sam Snead’s Education of a Golfer, Champions against Odds, and The Champion Breed. His article, “Ty Cobb’s Wild 10-Month Fight to Live,” written for True Magazine, won the Best American Sport Story award of 1962. It was the basis for the 1994 motion picture Cobb, directed by Ron Shelton.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on October 06, 2015

This book is somewhat difficult to rate. it is an absolutely brilliant story on just how completely messed-up Ty Cobb was. According to the book, Cobb is essentially a psychotic, evil lunatic with almost no friends or loved ones at all in life. I always knew Cobb was a jerk within the baseball diamo......more

Goodreads review by Jack on May 02, 2015

Al Stump writes the definitive bioraphy of Ty Cobb.Stump makes some effort to demonstrate some positives regarding Cobb, but they are few and far between.He does make the point that Cobb is one of the greatest ball players ever. But on the human side Cobb is portayed as violent, anti-social and self......more

Goodreads review by Craig on April 27, 2014

"Ty Cobb, the greatest of all ballplayers - and an absolute shit." - Ernest Hemingway. Disappointed but unsurprised to find out this book was embellished and untrue. I enjoyed reading it immensely but had I known it wasn't true prior to starting I wouldn't have bothered. And then, (insult to injury)......more

Goodreads review by Shane on February 10, 2014

This book had a lot of details about Ty Cobb's life and baseball career and I learned a lot about him that I didn't know before. Complaints of the book is that organization of the story could've been better and jumped around a little bit on the timeline. Also a few of stories about Cobb seemed too o......more

Goodreads review by Celia on October 24, 2017

Really opened my eyes to the REAL Ty Cobb. Excellent book for any baseball fan.......more

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