Ty Cobb and the frauds of Al Stump

If you ever read any of Stump's books "with" or about Cobb, you might wanna forget them; the guy was a liar and fraud about many things:

http://haulsofshame.com/blog/?p=874#more-874

(Stump was played by Robert Wuhl in that not-so-hot Ron Shelton movie.)

In the spring of 1929, Ty Cobb posed in front of the ruins of the Roman Colosseum with his three youngest children—Herschel, Beverly and James—and a beefy, mustachioed Italian guide. With his left elbow, Cobb nudged the guide, smiling at him as if to say Get a load of this, before raising his right arm in what seemed a classic fascist salute. The children mimicked their father.

This scene is a snippet of more than three hours of home-movie footage that has survived since Cobb and his family shot it 83 years ago. Never released publicly, the recordings will serve as the centerpiece of a documentary on Cobb—a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame's inaugural class of inductees, still a lightning rod for his tempestuous play on the field and notorious life off it—and promise to add another dimension to the ongoing debate about who Cobb was and what his legacy should be.

Discovered in 2005 by Kevan Roskam, Cobb's great-grandson, the soundless footage offers flickering black-and-white traces of Cobb's travels, activities and interactions with friends and family over the denouement of his 24-year playing career and the first days of his retirement. It shows him, among other things, skinning a black bear during one of his hunting trips in the U.S., goofing around with Japanese baseball players during a 1928 goodwill tour and visiting the Joan of Arc Memorial Cross and the site of the Battle of Belleau Wood in France....

Tyler Ben-Amotz, a producer at Hayden 5, said that the footage casts Cobb in a light that will be unfamiliar to those who know him only by his reputation as a misanthropic person and as a marvelous athlete. In one sequence, Cobb giggles as he watches a Japanese boy, no more than 10 years old, turn backward handsprings in the street. In another, one of Cobb's sons stands in front of a Coca-Cola sign—a fitting juxtaposition because Cobb made millions as an early investor in the soft-drink company. Later, the camera settles on a spectacular view of a snow-capped mountain range, a shot that Cobb likely took himself during one of his hunting excursions.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204653604577249570494720692.html

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-was-ty-cobb-the-history-we-know-thats-wrong

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Whatever happened to the three hours of Cobb footage??