Cobb (1994)

Al Stump is a famous sports-writer chosen by Ty Cobb to co-write his official, authorized 'autobiography' before his death. Cobb, widely feared and despised, feels misunderstood and wants to set the record straight about 'the greatest ball-player ever,' in his words. However, when Stump spends time with Cobb, interviewing him and beginning to write, he realizes that the general public opinion is largely correct. In Stump's presence, Cobb is angry, violent, racist, misogynistic, and incorrigibly abusive to everyone around him. Torn between printing the truth by plumbing the depths of Cobb's dark soul and grim childhood, and succumbing to Cobb's pressure for a whitewash of his character and a simple baseball tale of his greatness, Stump writes two different books. One book is for Cobb, the other for the public.

Keywords: baseball, baseball-movie, baseball-player, based-on-article, breasts, detroit-tigers, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, ghost-writer, male-full-frontal-nudity

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Louis Prima: With all the great players playing ball right now, how well do you think you would do against today's pitchers?::Ty Cobb: Well, I figure against today's pitchers I'd only probably hit about .290::Louis Prima: .290? Well that's amazing, because you batted over .400 a... a whole bunch of times. Now tell us all, we'd all like to know, why do you think you'd only hit .290?::Ty Cobb: Well, I'm 72 fucking years old you ignorant son of a bitch.

Ramona: Greatness is overrated.

Ramona: Who are you again?::Ty Cobb: I am the Georgia Peach. I have 4,191 base hits in 11,429 at bats, 920 stolen bases, 2,244 runs scored, and 93 batting records; and I want you to take off every stitch of your clothes.::Ramona: I don't think so. [Cobb points a gun to her head] That don't scare me, 'cause if you shoot me, I'll be dead. And you're not gonna screw a dead lady!::Ty Cobb: [cocks gun] I might like it.

[Cobb narrates a lengthy lambasting of Babe Ruth into a tape recorder]::Al Stump: Come on, Ty, aren't you going to give Ruth credit for anything?::Ty Cobb: (pauses) He could run okay for a fat man.

[to the umpire]::Ty Cobb: How do you do, Cyclops?::Umpire: Shut up, Cobb.::Ty Cobb: You're missing an excellent ballgame.

[to a teammate who just struck out]::Ty Cobb: Who signed you?::Teammate: Go to hell, Cobb.::Ty Cobb: Who did that?

[to Stumpy, about Cobb, as Willie leaves for town]::Willie: And you sir, you should leave this disgusting, wretched, sorry son of a motherfucker - immediately. Good evening.

Ty Cobb: [to Stump] The desire for glory is not a sin.

Ty Cobb: Baseball is a red blooded sport for red blooded men. It's no pink tea, and molly-coddles had better stay out... It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Ty Cobb: I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

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