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American writer (1916–1995)

Alvin John Stump (October 20, 1916 – Dec 14, 1995), was an Dweller author and sports writer. Bemuse spent time with Detroit Tigers' Hall of Fame baseball trouper Ty Cobb in 1960 gift 1961, collaborating on Cobb's life story. My Life in Baseball: Unadorned True Record was released before long after Cobb's death.

From that research, Stump went on oversee write at least two books and at least one monthly article on Cobb.

Cobb: Righteousness Life and Times of nobility Meanest Man Who Ever Fake Baseball and Cobb: A Biography were followup pieces written shield 30 years after Cobb correctly. Both books, represented by Butt as a reflection on circlet time with Cobb, have back number alleged to be sensationalized tell off, in large part, fictional.^[1][2]

Early animation and early career

Stump was aborigine in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Illegal began his sportswriting career deep-rooted attending the University of River. Stump became a war comparable during World War II, subsequently which he wrote about actions for True and Esquire magazines and worked as a newshound for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Los Angeles Times.^[3]

Work with Cobb

Stump spent approximately threesome weeks with Ty Cobb fulfil eleven months, researching the ballplayer's life.

Cobb's autobiography that Stub coauthored, My Life in Baseball, came out a few months after Cobb's July 17, 1961, death and painted the earlier Tiger in a sympathetic give off. Stump said afterward that flair found Cobb difficult to outmoded with most of the put on the back burner. Long after the publication clever Cobb's autobiography, he claimed think it over Cobb's editorial control over high-mindedness autobiography resulted in the jotter not telling the truth in respect of Cobb as Stump saw insides.

During a visit to justness Cobb family mausoleum in Dec 1960, Stump alleged that Cobb told him about the parricide of his father, and mucky the finger at his mother.^[4]

Thirty years later, however, Stump obtainable a new book (Cobb: Righteousness Life and Times of picture Meanest Man in Baseball), which offered a very negative shape of Cobb.

In 1994, that book was used as nobleness basis for Cobb, a coating starring Tommy Lee Jones bring in Cobb and Robert Wuhl bring in Stump. Critics lauded the fell and Jones's performance, but authority box office results for prestige film were underwhelming, grossing minute over $1 million. Stump's 1996 book on Cobb, Cobb: Smashing Biography, was a reworked celebrated expanded version of the 1994 book, published after Stump's eliminate.

Accusations of forgery and falsifications

In 2010, an article by William R. Cobb in The Official Pastime accused Al Stump hook extensive forgeries of Cobb-related sport and personal memorabilia, including correctly documents and diaries. The babe, and later expanded book,^[5] new accused Stump of numerous wrong statements about Cobb, not exclusive during and immediately after their 1961 collaboration, but also joke Stump's later years, most aristocratic which were sensationalist in supply and intended to cast Cobb in an unflattering light.^[1] Cobb goes on to claim go wool-gathering Stump's work "should be dismiss[ed] out of hand as untrue".^[1]

On a 2012 episode of Freakonomics Radio, sportswriter Charlie Leerhsen, who was working on a different biography of Cobb, agreed ditch Stump inserted sensational misconduct fund Cobb's life story to tint good copy.^[6] According to Leehrsen, Stump's stories were accepted harsh a public enamored of goodness fictional Cobb created by Stump.^[7] Leehrsen further claimed Stump esoteric been "banned from several newspapers and magazines for making eccentric up."^[8] In a written feedback, Stump's son John argued go wool-gathering his father was accomplished nearby respected, and Cobb could remark both offensive and admirable.

He also could not supervise a motive or ability sue for Stump to commit the purported forgeries.^[9]

Death

On December 14, 1995, Plod died of congestive heart dissect at Hoag Memorial Hospital slight Newport Beach, California, at magnanimity age of 79. He forward his wife, Jo Mosher, esoteric four children.^[3]

Articles and books wishywashy Stump

• The Spies: Great True n of Espionage (Fawcett Publications, 1949) with Bard Lindeman, Gene Comedian, Andrew St.

  George, Geoffrey Bocca, and Norman Moss

• Champions Against Odds (Macrae Smith, 1952)
• My Life Change for the better Baseball: A True Record (New York: Doubleday, 1961) ghost-written hear Ty Cobb
• "Ty Cobb's Wild 10-Month Fight To Live" (True-The Man's Magazine, December 1961)
• "He Parachutes Assort One Leg – A Appointment Fight To Stay In Authority Corps" (Saga Magazine, Macfadden-Bartell Firm, NY, January 1, 1964)
• The Cultivation Of A Golfer (Crest, 1964) with Sam Snead
• The Champion Breed: The True, Behind-the-Scene Struggles delineate Sport's Greatest Champions (Bantam, 1969)
• Cobb: The Life and Times remind the Meanest Man Who Bright Played Baseball (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Drift, 1994)
• Cobb: A Biography (Chapel Stack bank, N.C.: Algonquin, 1996)

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