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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: A [[DatedHistory retroactive]] example. Based mainly on Stump's later books, Cobb gained a reputation as a violent man with a short temper, who abused his family and constantly espoused racist views. While he had always been a highly aggressive ''player'', such accusations were almost entirely unfounded, as he maintained a good relationship with four of his five children, and spoke favorably of Blacks being treated as equals not only in the Major Leagues, but in all walks of life. During the early 2010s, it was discovered that many of the negative claims about Cobb were made up out of whole cloth by Al Stump after previous books about Cobb had failed to sell.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: A [[DatedHistory retroactive]] example. Based mainly on Stump's later books, Cobb gained a reputation as a violent man with a short temper, who abused his family and constantly espoused racist views. While he had always been a highly aggressive ''player'', such accusations were almost entirely unfounded, as he maintained a good relationship with four of his five children, and children. His views on race changed as he got older, when he spoke favorably of Blacks being treated as equals not only in the Major Leagues, but in all walks of life. During the early 2010s, it was discovered that many of the negative claims about Cobb were made up out of whole cloth by Al Stump after previous books about Cobb had failed to sell.
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* {{Ghostwriter}}: Al Stump is working as this for Cobb's autobiography.
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A 1994 biographical sports drama written and directed by Creator/RonShelton that shows the partnership of Ty Cobb (Creator/TommyLeeJones) and Al Stump (Creator/RobertWuhl) as they write Cobb's official autobiography.
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A 1994 American biographical sports drama film written and directed by Creator/RonShelton that shows the partnership of Hall of Fame UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball player Ty Cobb (Creator/TommyLeeJones) and sportswriter Al Stump (Creator/RobertWuhl) as theywrite work together on Cobb's official autobiography.
autobiography in 1960.
A 1994 American biographical sports drama film written and directed by Creator/RonShelton that shows the partnership of Hall of Fame UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball player Ty Cobb (Creator/TommyLeeJones) and sportswriter Al Stump (Creator/RobertWuhl) as they
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* TheCameo: Music/JimmyBuffett as the armless man who's beat up by Cobb.
* NewscasterCameo: Then-Tigers broadcaster (and fellow Georgia native) Ernie Harwell appears as the MC at a Cooperstown awards banquet.
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* BrickJoke: When Stump first meets Cobb, the older man is talking to his stockbroker. Stump jokingly asks for a hot tip, to which Cobb replies "Buy Coke, we're gonna come out in cans." An incredulous Stump says that will never happen, but Cobb simply snarks that he wanted a tip, he got a tip. Toward the end of the film, Stump's narration mentions that Coke began being sold in cans just like Cobb said it would.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: A [[DatedHistory retroactive]] example. During the early 2010s, it was discovered that many of the negative claims about Ty Cobb were made up out of whole cloth by Al Stump after previous books about Cobb had failed to sell.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: A [[DatedHistory retroactive]] example. Based mainly on Stump's later books, Cobb gained a reputation as a violent man with a short temper, who abused his family and constantly espoused racist views. While he had always been a highly aggressive ''player'', such accusations were almost entirely unfounded, as he maintained a good relationship with four of his five children, and spoke favorably of Blacks being treated as equals not only in the Major Leagues, but in all walks of life. During the early 2010s, it was discovered that many of the negative claims about Ty Cobb were made up out of whole cloth by Al Stump after previous books about Cobb had failed to sell.
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* {{Tagline}}: "Everyone hated this baseball legend. And he loved it".
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The movie is about the last days of controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb. It's based on the account of sportswriter Al Stump, who ghostwrote Cobb's memoir and later wrote a magazine article about Cobb's final months. As a coup de grace, Stump wrote another, much, ''much'' less complimentary biography, titled, ''Cobb: The Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball''. In the years since, Stump's writing about Cobb has been debunked. While Cobb was ''not'' a nice person by any means, Stump describes events that never happened.
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The movie is about the last days of controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb. It's based on the account of sportswriter Al Stump, who ghostwrote Cobb's memoir and later wrote a magazine article about Cobb's final months. As a coup de grace, Stump wrote another, much, ''much'' less complimentary biography, titled, ''Cobb: The Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball''. In the years since, [[DatedHistory Stump's writing about Cobb has been debunked.debunked]]. While Cobb was ''not'' a nice person by any means, Stump describes events that never happened.
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Al Stump's book about Cobb is now discredited due to inaccuracies about parts of Ty Cobb's life.
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The movie is about the last days of controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb. It's based on the account of sportswriter Al Stump, who ghostwrote Cobb's memoir and later wrote a magazine article about Cobb's final months. As a coup de grace, Stump wrote another, much, ''much'' less complimentary biography, titled, ''Cobb: The Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball''. In the years since, Stump's book writing about Cobb is now discredited due to inaccuracies about parts of Ty Cobb's life.has been debunked. While Cobb was ''not'' a nice person by any means, Stump describes events that never happened.
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* AlliterativeName: '''C'''harlie '''C'''haplin.
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* CharacterTitle: '''Cobb'''.
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** Ty Cobb, Baseball center fielder.
** Al Stump, author and sports writer.
** Ty Cobb, Baseball center fielder.
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A 1994 biographical sports drama written and directed by Creator/RonShelton that shows the partnership of Ty Cobb (Creator/TommyLeeJones) and Al Stump (Creator/RobertWuhl) as they write Cobb's official autobiography.
The movie also stars Creator/LolitaDavidovich, Creator/LouMyers, Creator/WilliamUtay, Creator/JKennethCampbell, Creator/RhodaGriffis, Creator/RogerClemens, Creator/StephenMendillo, Creator/TommyBush, Creator/StacyKeachSr, Creator/CrashDavis, and Creator/BradleyWhitford.
It was released on December 2, 1994.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: After discovering Al Stump's stash of personal-draft for the book, stopping himself from capping him in his sleep and finally proceeding to shoot himself in the mouth, old age starts catching up with Ty as he runs off to cough a ''bunch'' up all over the bathroom sink. Unable to clean it up, he leaves Al a note there ("You lying son of a bitch") saying he'd gone off to the hospital.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on Al Stump's ''Cobb: The Life and Times of the Meanest Man in Baseball''.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Jones and Davidovich previously worked together on ''Film/{{JFK}}'' and ''Film/TheBigTown''.
* MononymousBiopicTitle: '''Cobb'''.
* {{Tagline}}: "Everyone hated this baseball legend. And he loved it".
The movie also stars Creator/LolitaDavidovich, Creator/LouMyers, Creator/WilliamUtay, Creator/JKennethCampbell, Creator/RhodaGriffis, Creator/RogerClemens, Creator/StephenMendillo, Creator/TommyBush, Creator/StacyKeachSr, Creator/CrashDavis, and Creator/BradleyWhitford.
It was released on December 2, 1994.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: After discovering Al Stump's stash of personal-draft for the book, stopping himself from capping him in his sleep and finally proceeding to shoot himself in the mouth, old age starts catching up with Ty as he runs off to cough a ''bunch'' up all over the bathroom sink. Unable to clean it up, he leaves Al a note there ("You lying son of a bitch") saying he'd gone off to the hospital.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on Al Stump's ''Cobb: The Life and Times of the Meanest Man in Baseball''.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Jones and Davidovich previously worked together on ''Film/{{JFK}}'' and ''Film/TheBigTown''.
* MononymousBiopicTitle: '''Cobb'''.
* {{Tagline}}: "Everyone hated this baseball legend. And he loved it".
