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A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Gary Morris
- Baptist Minister
- (as Reverend Gary Morris)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMuch of how Cobb was portrayed in this film has now been widely recognized as inaccurate. Al Stump's books and magazine articles on Cobb have now been widely discredited, and serious baseball historians give Stump's account of the later years of Cobb's life very little credence. Charles Leerhsen's biography, "Ty Cobb, A Terrible Beauty," sets the record straight. Cobb did NOT attempt to have sex with the cocktail waitress in Las Vegas and then attempt to pay her off (Stump fabricated this), and many other alleged darker aspects of Cobb's life are just plain not true. Several serious baseball historians have labeled this film highly inaccurate.
- GoofsCobb is seen being treated by a black nurse at Emory University Hospital shortly before his death. In 1961, Georgia hospitals and their staff were still strictly segregated.
- Crazy creditsThe latter half of the credits has a voiceover by Jones, narrating as Cobb, regarding the finer points of batting and other aspects of baseball, and how he regretted not going to college, and should have been a doctor.
- SoundtracksTheme from A Summer Place
Written by Max Steiner
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In bio-pics and other movies claiming to possess an historical basis, reviewers should stick to evaluating movies as movies and not as history, unless they happen to have a fair bit of grounding on the subject and/or events.
Sad that so many here obviously hold an image of a a man on the basis of having read-or at least believing themselves familiar with the subject-a single work, and that, a book that has been utterly debunked a number of times (most recently in "War on the Basepaths" (Tim Horbaker-2015) and "Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty" (Charles Leerhsen-2015).
Knowing what the screenplay was based upon, I went expecting a fictional portrayal of Cobb's last years and, my only reason for going, an accomplished and powerful performance by Tommy Lee Jones; both expectations were entirely met.
- robertf-scott37
- Feb 13, 2018
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,007,583
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $63,786
- Dec 4, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $1,007,583
- Runtime2 hours 8 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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