Cobb

Cobb, based on the book Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump, is the story of the bigger-than-life legendary Georgia Peach, “the most hated man in baseball,” Ty Cobb, brilliantly played by Tommy Lee Jones. The movie, told by sportswriter Al Stump (Robert Wuhl), portrays Cobb as a cantankerous old man who attacks life as he once attacked the game. As they travel together Stump helps Cobb write his autobiography while dodging his drunkenly aimed bullets and withering verbal assaults, and learns not only of his greatness as a player but of his egomania, bigotry, rage and basic contempt for all of mankind. The early years show Cobb as a crowd-jeering, aggressive base-stealing outfielder who changed the style of baseball forever, shifting later to the 1961 Baseball Hall of Fame banquet in which Cobb finally reveals a glimpse of his complex character.