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"My Life in Baseball - The True
Record" by Ty Cobb with Al Stump was
published by Doubleday & Company in
September 1961, a few weeks after
Cobb's death. This is his story - the
true story - filled with all the
excitement that surrounded Ty Cobb
throughout his long and brilliant
career. In 1959, Al Stump, a West Coast
sportswriter, got a surprise phone call
that was to change his life. The caller
wanted to know if he'd be interested in
working on the autobiography of Ty
Cobb, the first player voted into
baseball's Hall of Fame. Stump knew
that Cobb, who was indeed the caller
had a reputation for being difficult,
and working on his life story would not
be a walk through spring training, but
he took the assignment.
Cobb died in 1961, and 32 years after Cobb's death, in 1994, the movie
Cobb staring Tommy Lee Jones came out.
A 315 page paperback of the book was
published by University of Nebraska
Press in 1993.
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