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Encyclopedia > Cobb (movie)

Cobb is a 1994 baseball movie starring Tommy Lee Jones as the legendary baseball player Ty Cobb. It is directed by Ron Shelton.


Based on a true story, Robert Wuhl plays sportswriter Al Stump who is hired to write an authorized "autobiography" of Cobb. After spending time with Cobb, Stump is torn between writing the book that Cobb wants and writing the truth.


Baseball scenes in the movie were filmed at Birmingham's Rickwood Field.


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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Ty Cobb (1886-1961) (1303 words)
Cobb was born in The Narrows in Banks County, on December 18, 1886, the first of three children.
Cobb still holds the record for most steals of home, with more than fifty (the exact total is in dispute).
In 1963 Cobb was one of the first three professional athletes to be inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, and in 1998 the citizens of Royston opened a museum in his honor.
Salon Entertainment | Home Movies by Charles Taylor (1519 words)
Cobb greets Stump with a blast of buckshot, and holds him at gunpoint whenever Stump argues with him, threatening to kill the reporter in the blink of an eye.
Cobb's belief in his own greatness is a belief in his superiority to almost everyone else, but he also knows he's a nasty prick.
Cobb's desire to invest himself with enough stature to stand up to death is both weirdly heroic and the thing that cuts him off from the living.
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