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This 1916 portrait shows us
Ty Cobb in his Detroit Tigers uniform...

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"the Georgia Peach. "

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Note the smug expression
and the haunting set of eyes.

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These disturbing eyes can be
seen in the earliest photo
ever taken of young Ty.

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Here, we see the famous swing
of the great Ty Cobb.

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Turn the clock back
to the beginning of the century...

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when America first embraced baseball...

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and the exchanging of the ground rules
became a pre-game ritual...

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that survives to this day.

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At that time, professional baseball
was a casual game...

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with a circus atmosphere.

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Baseball players were often clowns...

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and pre-game antics
took on the flavor of vaudeville.

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But young Ty Cobb
would have none of that.

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He turned the game into war...

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and in the process,
invented the modern game as we know it.

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Here, we see him running
over a first sacker on a drag bunt:

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a play he perfected.

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The aggressive, attacking game
was virtually Cobb's invention.

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Infielders and catchers often bled
from his spikes.

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Cobb would fight any man on or off
the field at the drop of a hat.

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Batting champion 12 times...

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he averaged over .300
for 23 consecutive years...

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and averaged over .400
for a five-year stretch.

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His lifetime batting average of .367...

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has never been seriously approached.

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The first celebrity athlete
in American history...

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movie stars and presidents
all sought his company.

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Here Cobb poses with his great archrival...

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the legendary Babe Ruth.

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Here we see Cobb
with one of his five children:

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his little daughter Shirley.

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Here, he poses with some kids
from the neighborhood.

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And, here, he shows his son
his curious hands-apart grip.

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Though he was unable to teach
his flaming, competitive heart.

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Charged with fixing games in 1926...

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Cobb was roundly supported
by the children of America...

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who came to the great batsman's defense.

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The supposed scandal proved to be
much ado about nothing...

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when baseball commissioner Judge Landis
fully acquitted the Georgia Peach...

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of all wrongdoing.

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...that is the very backbone
of America itself.

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Near the end of his career...

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Cobb joined the Philadelphia Athletics,
and at the age of 41...

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he batted .323 and retired shortly
thereafter, telling the world:

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"If a man can't hit better than that,
he ought to quit. "

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Ty Cobb dominated the game
as no man ever had.

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen...

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what a ballplayer!

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Hey, Stump.

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Stumpy!

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Gentlemen.

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Get over here. We've got to settle this.

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Stump! Come on!

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Congrats, Al.

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Four pieces in national magazines
this month.

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Five.

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You're the man, Stumpy.

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Stumpy, 3:45, you're late.
Where have you been?

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Stumpy, best fighter, pound for pound?

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Joe Louis, a champ for 11 years.

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Walker Smith, Jr.
better known to you dilettantes...

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as Sugar Ray Robinson.

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For Christ's sake, retired undefeated...

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Henry Armstrong held three titles
at the same time.

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No other fighter...

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We call ourselves writers,
and all we do is watch ball games...

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argue about everything,
and just get drunk a lot.

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- You call that writing?
- Yeah!

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Besides, Alan here
is writing a serious novel, aren't you?

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Well, I haven't started yet,
but I'm going to.

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- I've been very busy-
- By the end of the century...

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You're pathetic!
The only reason you write is for a paycheck.

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Besides, greatest fighter,
Harry Greb, 294 fights, no contest.

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The guy killed everybody.

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My ass! He couldn't beat Harry Belafonte.

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Belafonte, best singer, male.

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- Elvis.
- Perry Como.

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Three words! Francis Albert Sinatra.

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What about Nat "King" Cole?

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Best king. I've got Henry VIII...

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who started a new religion
and had six wives-

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King James had a Bible named after him.

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Stump! The phone!

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- King, Bible-
- King David.

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King David, best Jew.

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Best king? King Kong!

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Best monkey.

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Who? Who?

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Yes, sir, I certainly would.

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Yes, sir, I can.

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Yes, sir. Fine, thank you.

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Cobb wants to see me.

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- Cobb who?
- Ty Cobb. How many Cobbs do you know?

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Cobb? But Cobb is dead.

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Not yet, he ain't.

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And he wants to tell me the real story
of his life before he croaks.

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That was Ty Cobb on the phone right there?

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I heard he killed a man.

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Stumpy, he's crazy, he's meshuga.

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Stumpy, listen to me.
You've got to be careful with Cobb.

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Come on, the guy's over 70.
Is he going to wheeze on me?

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I think I can handle him.
Besides, he wants to see me.

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Cobb wants to see me!
Greatest ballplayer of all time.

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- Ty Cobb!
- Ty Cobb!

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- Ty Cobb.
- I like Ruth.

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- Ruth?
- Babe Ruth.

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Ever heard of him?

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Cobb owned property all over the country.

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Of late, he had been
staying in his hunting lodge...

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at Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada.

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Stories of Cobb sharpening his spikes
before a game were as familiar as...

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George Washington and his cherry tree...

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or Teddy Roosevelt
charging up San Juan Hill.

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I also knew his reputation
for being difficult
at best, psychotic at worst.

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By his own admission,
he set out to hurt his opponents.

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In one season alone,
he sent 12 men to the hospital.

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Bullshit! Go ahead and quit then, Willie!

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Go ahead and quit!

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Get the hell out of here!

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Now, Mr. Cobb, you racist! Fuck you!

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You ain't no greatest baseball player!
My ass plays better baseball than you!

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I'm out of here! You ain't got to tell me.

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Now, fuck you, Mr. Cobb!

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I have too much dignity to spend
another moment with you.

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I hope you die before the sun comes up,
and may you rot in hell!

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Excuse me. Who are you?

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I'm the writer.

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You mean, he actually found someone
to take the job?

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Write all you've got...

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he makes somebody dance
Yankee Doodle Dandy on his ass.

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I'm out of here.
I've never seen nobody like that before.

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Go on!
You'll never last a day
with that old bastard!

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You're gonna write that shit?

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Talking about
"he's the greatest player of all time. "

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My ass play better baseball than him!

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I'm out of here.
I'm never gonna work for you no more!

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Don't ask me to come back!

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I'm free, and I'm glad to be out of here.

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This is America, you old motherfucker!

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Freedom!

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This is the land of "Oh, say can you see. "

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Kiss my ass with a...

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Mr. Cobb?

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- Mr. Cobb?
- Where's that sportswriter at?

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Mr. Cobb?

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Hello, Mr. Cobb.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Cobb,
but I don't need this job that bad.

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Yes, Mr. Stump,
you do need this job that bad.

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Now, come on in here
and meet the great Ty Cobb!

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Oh, man, he's nuts.

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Don't let him get you.

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I won't hurt you. Come on.

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I won't hurt you.

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Come on in here.

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On the violin, Fritz Kreisler.

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I'm a great admirer of his.

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I'm also a great admirer of yours.

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Thank you.

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You are a hopeless romantic...

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and only a moderate success, however.

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Sir, I'm the highest-paid sportswriter
in America...

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and not merely a "moderate success. "

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Of course.

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Hand me those green and white pills
right there, please.

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That is an invitation
to a testimonial dinner...

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at the Baseball Hall of Fame
in Cooperstown, New York.

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Young man, you're gonna take me there.

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When is it?

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In a few weeks.

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All the great ones are gonna be there!

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The great Mickey Cochrane,
"Wahoo" Sam Crawford...

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Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby,
the Waner boys...

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Goddamn, we used to have
some parties, Stump.

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I'm gonna tell you that right now.

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We can't forget.

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I won't forget.

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Look at me closely, Al.

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Lie after lie has been told about me.

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My entire life, I've been misunderstood.

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You are the very fortunate
young sportswriter...

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who has been chosen
to tell the true story...

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of Ty Cobb.

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- Great. What's the true story?
- That's why you're here.

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See, there's two kinds
of writers in this life.

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Ones that spin endless yarns
about tiny little subjects, that's you...

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and the ones with one big subject...

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that consumes them forever,
that could be you...

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because I am that subject.

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Are you okay?

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Jameson!

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Jameson, get your ass up here.

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Sir?

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There's a small oil company
in Bakersfield near Elk Hills Reserve...

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called Honolulu Oil Company.

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You buy all the stock in it that you can.

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Getty's expanding,
I'm looking for little companies like that.

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I've got a hunch.
Stump, come over here to me.

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I think I can take that buck.
What do you think?

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With that pistol, I don't believe so.

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There's a board meeting at
Coca-Cola in Atlanta.

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Tell them I can't make it
for medical reasons.

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No, personal reasons.
And sell everything I've got in 3M.

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Got him!

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Like hell you did!

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- I shot her damn throat out!
- You are so full of shit!

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If Mr. Cobb says he got him, he got him.

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Then you're full of shit, too.

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You have no goddamn vision.
A writer with no vision is a waste of time.

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I've hired the wrong son of a bitch.

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I better head back to San Francisco
before the storm hits.

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I'll take care of these transactions.

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And I will be leaving, too, since you think
I'm the wrong man for the job.

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Shut up, Stump,
we both know I'm your meal ticket.

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I beg your pardon?

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We need each other.

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We'll start in the morning.

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No!

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Yeah, bright and early.

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Mr. Cobb, I don't think
I've made myself perfectly clear.

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Mr. Cobb!

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Ready.

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Chapter 1, page 1.

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Ready!

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"Know ye that a prince and a great man
has fallen this day. "

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What the hell is that?

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That is what Robert Lee said over the grave
of my grandfather at Fredericksburg.

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So I'm taking notes?

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Hell no,
it's the first line of my autobiography.

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- I'm not writing that.
- Why not?

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It's horseshit.

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It's a third-person comment
about somebody who's already dead.

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An autobiography has to be
in the first person...

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plus it can't come from the other side
of the goddamn grave.

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My story can come
from any damn place I want.

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Not to mention the fact...

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you can't call yourself
a prince and a great man.

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That's for the-

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What kind of a writer are you,
tied up in rules and regulations?

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What's the use of a writer
if you can't say what want?

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You're not treating me like a writer,
you're treating me like a stenographer.

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"... that a prince and a great man...

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"has fallen this day. "

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- It has a certain ring to it.
- It certainly does.

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And I thought you might like it.
It's yours, it's a gift.

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From me.

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"Cobb...

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00:19:18,376 --> 00:19:20,414
"a prince among men...

249
00:19:22,281 --> 00:19:25,253
"misunderstood in his genius...

250
00:19:26,486 --> 00:19:28,923
"as genius always is... "

251
00:19:29,922 --> 00:19:31,959
That's the second line
from what's gonna be...

252
00:19:32,024 --> 00:19:34,496
the greatest biography
of a great man ever written.

253
00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,363
Type the damn thing up!

254
00:19:40,300 --> 00:19:44,642
Bethlehem Steel is going in the toilet.
I'll be a striped-ass ape!

255
00:19:47,308 --> 00:19:50,948
Jameson, Bethlehem Steel's
going in the toilet. Dump it all right now.

256
00:19:54,782 --> 00:19:56,886
You got a stock tip for me?

257
00:19:57,184 --> 00:19:59,422
Buy Coca-Cola.
We're about to go out in cans.

258
00:19:59,487 --> 00:20:02,459
Coke in cans? I don't believe so.

259
00:20:15,737 --> 00:20:17,441
You know what's wrong with Ty Cobb?

260
00:20:17,506 --> 00:20:19,943
Every goddamn disease known to man,
I've got them all.

261
00:20:20,008 --> 00:20:22,580
But they ain't never gonna get me
into a hospital.

262
00:20:22,645 --> 00:20:26,085
My heart leaks. My doctors, nothin' but
a bunch of hacksaw artists...

263
00:20:26,149 --> 00:20:28,653
give me Digoxin to keep it pumping.

264
00:20:29,618 --> 00:20:32,123
They give me Darvon
for the cancer in my back.

265
00:20:32,188 --> 00:20:35,595
They give me Tace
for something eating up my stomach.

266
00:20:35,692 --> 00:20:38,798
They give me Fleets compound
for an infection in my bowels!

267
00:20:38,862 --> 00:20:42,169
They give me Librium for my tension.

268
00:20:42,699 --> 00:20:45,137
They give me insulin for diabetes.

269
00:20:46,170 --> 00:20:47,840
But this stuff...

270
00:20:51,308 --> 00:20:53,111
This stuff, Stumpy...

271
00:20:54,545 --> 00:20:56,382
can fucking kill you.

272
00:21:13,865 --> 00:21:15,101
And if that wasn't enough...

273
00:21:15,167 --> 00:21:18,673
it's been two years
since I got my pecker up in the air.

274
00:21:23,109 --> 00:21:26,683
The South may not rise again, young man,
but my dick will.

275
00:21:44,998 --> 00:21:47,803
I soon discovered
I couldn't be around the man for long...

276
00:21:47,868 --> 00:21:52,010
without needing a break,
which his painkillers gracefully provided.

277
00:21:53,107 --> 00:21:56,379
My sanity would soon depend
upon a frequent breath of fresh air...

278
00:21:56,444 --> 00:22:00,586
a walk in the woods, any escape
from what one sportswriter had called:

279
00:22:00,649 --> 00:22:03,955
"Cobb's brooding soul,
that bubbled with violence. "

280
00:22:19,368 --> 00:22:20,738
Oh, my God!

281
00:22:36,853 --> 00:22:39,858
Good news, Stumpy.
We're going to Reno. I'm horny.

282
00:22:39,924 --> 00:22:41,393
There's a blizzard out there!

283
00:22:41,458 --> 00:22:44,463
When a man wants a woman,
a man wants a woman!

284
00:22:44,662 --> 00:22:48,101
Why don't we put on some soup?
We'll build a fire, work on the book.

285
00:22:48,165 --> 00:22:49,300
How cozy.

286
00:22:49,367 --> 00:22:52,071
Got $25,OOO in cash
and negotiable securities right there.

287
00:22:52,136 --> 00:22:53,772
Don't let it out of your sight.

288
00:22:53,838 --> 00:22:55,943
You're nuts! Those roads are impassable!

289
00:22:56,008 --> 00:22:58,245
- You lead, I'll follow.
- You don't understand.

290
00:22:58,310 --> 00:23:02,217
- I'm not going anywhere!
- You don't understand. I need a woman.

291
00:23:15,194 --> 00:23:17,565
Get the hell out of the way!

292
00:23:27,307 --> 00:23:30,446
You call that driving, Alice?
My sister can drive better than that!

293
00:23:30,510 --> 00:23:32,247
Step on it! Let's go!

294
00:23:32,312 --> 00:23:33,380
Get on down the road.

295
00:23:33,446 --> 00:23:36,352
Them girls are gonna die of old age
before we get down there.

296
00:23:36,416 --> 00:23:37,886
Are you nuts?

297
00:23:51,666 --> 00:23:52,802
Get off my ass!

298
00:23:53,835 --> 00:23:56,072
All right, little girl,
I'll take you to school.

299
00:24:06,515 --> 00:24:09,120
How was your first driving lesson, Alice?

300
00:24:26,236 --> 00:24:27,906
Couldn't take it?

301
00:24:28,238 --> 00:24:29,474
Too bad.

302
00:24:33,210 --> 00:24:34,212
Shit!

303
00:24:37,848 --> 00:24:39,551
Driving lesson number two!

304
00:24:39,617 --> 00:24:41,387
Step on it, will you?

305
00:25:07,045 --> 00:25:10,720
All right, young man. Follow the leader!
We're gonna get laid!

306
00:25:12,185 --> 00:25:14,689
Go ahead! Just go!

307
00:25:16,055 --> 00:25:17,291
Fuck you!

308
00:25:18,324 --> 00:25:20,529
"Good news, Stumpy. I'm horny. "

309
00:25:23,029 --> 00:25:25,768
Better news, Cobb. You're fucking crazy!

310
00:25:39,647 --> 00:25:42,552
Oh, boy. What the hell is that?

311
00:25:58,201 --> 00:26:00,438
Oh, God. He's dead.

312
00:26:00,802 --> 00:26:02,439
Ty Cobb bought the farm.

313
00:26:24,995 --> 00:26:27,032
It's about fucking time you got here.

314
00:26:27,097 --> 00:26:28,600
You're alive?

315
00:26:28,733 --> 00:26:31,037
I wouldn't call it living, but it'll do.

316
00:26:31,101 --> 00:26:32,971
Help me out of this son of a bitch!

317
00:26:33,038 --> 00:26:34,140
Give me your hand.

318
00:26:34,205 --> 00:26:36,843
- God, there's blood.
- Of course there's blood.

319
00:26:36,908 --> 00:26:40,047
I just put my head through the windshield
of a goddamn car!

320
00:26:40,111 --> 00:26:42,983
What do you expect?
Oh, my God! I'm maimed!

321
00:26:43,048 --> 00:26:46,020
- Am I gonna be-
- Shut the fuck up and get in the car!

322
00:26:46,318 --> 00:26:47,820
Look at that!

323
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,056
Get in the fucking car!

324
00:26:50,122 --> 00:26:53,394
- Stupid bastard. Come on, let's go!
- You gotta get me out of here.

325
00:26:53,459 --> 00:26:56,565
Let's get out of here! Just hold on to me.

326
00:26:56,862 --> 00:26:58,967
Let's go. Come on!

327
00:26:59,431 --> 00:27:02,437
Let's get out of here. Stump, lead on!

328
00:27:03,102 --> 00:27:04,438
Come on!

329
00:27:04,804 --> 00:27:07,042
- Oh, shit!
- Ruined a pair of gloves, shit!

330
00:27:07,774 --> 00:27:09,010
Look at that!

331
00:27:09,076 --> 00:27:12,315
No goddamn guardrail! I'm gonna sue
the State Highway Commission!

332
00:27:12,378 --> 00:27:14,851
I'm suing the governor,
I'm suing every-goddamn-body!

333
00:27:14,915 --> 00:27:16,752
Stumpy, I could've been hurt up here!

334
00:27:16,817 --> 00:27:19,021
You could have been hurt? Get in the car!

335
00:27:19,086 --> 00:27:21,324
- Give me the keys, I'm driving.
- No, I'm driving!

336
00:27:21,388 --> 00:27:25,096
You know the way to Reno? No!
Give me the keys, I'm driving!

337
00:27:25,159 --> 00:27:29,066
- Over my dead body!
- That's your call, young man.

338
00:27:29,130 --> 00:27:31,133
Now, no sudden moves.

339
00:27:31,532 --> 00:27:33,369
You miserable son of a bitch!

340
00:27:33,434 --> 00:27:36,507
You frightened, desperate, pathetic old man!
Get out of here!

341
00:27:36,571 --> 00:27:38,675
You can't do anything without that gun...

342
00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:42,114
and frankly, it doesn't impress me
if you keep waving it around...

343
00:27:42,177 --> 00:27:44,247
because I know you're not gonna shoot me!

344
00:27:44,313 --> 00:27:47,820
You need me a lot worse than I need you!
What, are you gonna kill me?

345
00:27:47,883 --> 00:27:49,185
I killed a man one time!

346
00:27:49,251 --> 00:27:51,889
Fine, then shoot me
and put me out of my fucking misery...

347
00:27:51,954 --> 00:27:53,357
because I'm freezing!

348
00:27:53,422 --> 00:27:57,130
Okay, Stumpy, that's good.
I like a man who stands up to me.

349
00:27:57,193 --> 00:27:58,862
That's good, son.

350
00:27:58,927 --> 00:28:01,400
- Come on, let's go.
- Give me the keys, I'm driving.

351
00:28:11,275 --> 00:28:15,116
It's only an hour. I can tell you my story
before we get to those women.

352
00:28:15,179 --> 00:28:16,814
Women? Plural?

353
00:28:16,881 --> 00:28:19,953
Some for me and some for you.
We're gonna have a hell of a time.

354
00:28:20,017 --> 00:28:22,589
I bet them girls are lining up now
for ol' Ty and Stump.

355
00:28:22,654 --> 00:28:25,526
Why don't you worry less about women
and stay on the road?

356
00:28:25,590 --> 00:28:28,963
My philosophy is simply this.
Life is too short to be diplomatic.

357
00:28:29,026 --> 00:28:31,498
A man's friends should not care
what he does or says.

358
00:28:31,563 --> 00:28:33,733
Those who are not his friends,
to hell with them.

359
00:28:33,798 --> 00:28:35,234
You wanna know about my childhood?

360
00:28:35,300 --> 00:28:37,237
That's what writers
usually wanna know about.

361
00:28:37,302 --> 00:28:41,511
Fine, but none of this "know ye that
a prince and great man has fallen" stuff.

362
00:28:41,574 --> 00:28:43,678
I was born in a small town in north Georgia.

363
00:28:43,742 --> 00:28:45,712
My daughter lives there to this day.

364
00:28:45,777 --> 00:28:48,483
I started playing baseball as a kid,
like everybody else.

365
00:28:48,547 --> 00:28:51,552
- But I was better than everybody else.
- Watch!

366
00:28:53,352 --> 00:28:56,525
I started playing for money when I was 17.
Father didn't approve.

367
00:28:56,590 --> 00:28:59,362
Fathers will be that way. Watch the road.

368
00:29:00,493 --> 00:29:02,397
Father was a great man.

369
00:29:07,968 --> 00:29:11,307
He was also a learned man, a professor.

370
00:29:12,005 --> 00:29:16,749
He was being groomed for governor
from the day in 1900 he was elected mayor.

371
00:29:16,977 --> 00:29:19,682
...Franklin County politics,
and I will deliver.

372
00:29:20,648 --> 00:29:23,153
I promise that City Hall will be...

373
00:29:23,218 --> 00:29:25,522
He was the pillar of Franklin County.

374
00:29:25,586 --> 00:29:29,493
Head Deacon in the Baptist church.
My father was everything.

375
00:29:29,558 --> 00:29:34,935
Blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins

376
00:29:35,530 --> 00:29:38,303
And sinners plunged

377
00:29:38,367 --> 00:29:41,139
into that flood

378
00:29:42,337 --> 00:29:45,745
My mother was the most beautiful woman
in the county.

379
00:29:46,242 --> 00:29:50,551
She married my father when she was 12,
which was the way they used to do it.

380
00:29:50,613 --> 00:29:53,752
And she taught me to believe in the hymns
we sang in church.

381
00:29:53,816 --> 00:29:57,089
I especially liked the bloody ones.

382
00:29:58,054 --> 00:30:02,798
"And the sinners plunged beneath that flood
lose all their guilty stains. "

383
00:30:05,663 --> 00:30:09,237
In the name of the father, the Son...

384
00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:12,339
and the Holy Ghost, I was baptized.

385
00:30:12,569 --> 00:30:14,640
And a short time later...

386
00:30:14,705 --> 00:30:17,210
walking home with my pals...

387
00:30:17,942 --> 00:30:19,945
feeling very Christian...

388
00:30:20,645 --> 00:30:22,815
ready to live the good life...

389
00:30:24,081 --> 00:30:27,422
my father didn't drink, smoke,
gamble, or chase women...

390
00:30:27,486 --> 00:30:29,756
and I wasn't going to, either.

391
00:30:31,356 --> 00:30:33,059
All of a sudden...

392
00:30:35,327 --> 00:30:37,832
there was a train coming at us...

393
00:30:38,798 --> 00:30:40,768
on the southbound track.

394
00:30:43,503 --> 00:30:47,912
There I was,
a newly baptized child of God...

395
00:30:47,974 --> 00:30:51,715
who hadn't hardly sinned,
and I was gonna die.

396
00:30:52,879 --> 00:30:54,916
I felt strangely calm...

397
00:30:55,181 --> 00:30:59,122
and as the train got closer,
I just stood there...

398
00:30:59,453 --> 00:31:02,859
and stood, and stood.

399
00:31:07,161 --> 00:31:09,231
Hell, I knew when to jump.

400
00:31:10,998 --> 00:31:13,670
That was the greatest thrill of my life...

401
00:31:13,735 --> 00:31:16,841
not counting the first time
I saw a woman naked.

402
00:31:17,572 --> 00:31:21,279
I felt protected by my father...

403
00:31:21,709 --> 00:31:24,916
by my mother, the baptism.

404
00:31:25,413 --> 00:31:28,452
I don't know, but From that moment on...

405
00:31:28,517 --> 00:31:31,689
I knew I could not be hurt.

406
00:31:37,426 --> 00:31:40,365
My father died in a terrible accident,
you know?

407
00:31:40,596 --> 00:31:42,066
No, I didn't.

408
00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:45,169
My father was murdered.

409
00:31:45,802 --> 00:31:47,939
Isn't that the kind of thing
you're looking for?

410
00:31:48,938 --> 00:31:49,939
Murdered.

411
00:31:50,407 --> 00:31:52,410
Your father was murdered?

412
00:31:52,576 --> 00:31:53,979
It happened when I was 17...

413
00:31:54,044 --> 00:31:56,715
about three or four days
before Detroit called me up.

414
00:31:56,780 --> 00:32:01,089
- Was the killer ever caught?
- There was an arrest,
trial, an acquittal...

415
00:32:01,151 --> 00:32:02,687
but never a conviction.

416
00:32:02,753 --> 00:32:05,425
Jesus Christ. I'm sorry.

417
00:32:05,489 --> 00:32:06,992
Don't give me that sob-sister crap.

418
00:32:07,057 --> 00:32:09,896
The only thing that matters
is a man's accomplishments.

419
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,165
I must say, in all humility...

420
00:32:14,565 --> 00:32:19,341
I'm the greatest baseball
player of all time.
Nobody even comes a close second.

421
00:32:21,272 --> 00:32:24,111
They say I used to sharpen my spikes.

422
00:32:24,610 --> 00:32:27,582
Georgia Peach, my ass, you son of a bitch!

423
00:32:27,646 --> 00:32:29,783
You're gonna get hurt today,
you son of a bitch.

424
00:32:29,849 --> 00:32:32,587
You wanna do it right now, or out there?
Come on back here.

425
00:32:32,651 --> 00:32:33,754
But I ask you:

426
00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:38,228
Can you hurt a man worse by cutting him up
with dull, rusty steel...

427
00:32:38,625 --> 00:32:41,497
or a finely honed, razor-sharp edge?

428
00:32:41,928 --> 00:32:44,667
You could view my efforts as humanitarian.

429
00:32:44,730 --> 00:32:46,468
Double left, steal third, steal home.

430
00:32:46,532 --> 00:32:47,701
- Eight to one.
- Bullshit!

431
00:32:47,767 --> 00:32:49,437
- Ten to one.
.$1oo.

432
00:32:49,602 --> 00:32:53,343
Leroy, come and hold this man's money.
You ain't going to be holding it long.

433
00:32:57,878 --> 00:33:00,048
What in the hell is going on in this dugout?

434
00:33:00,114 --> 00:33:02,151
Where did all these newspapers come from?

435
00:33:02,216 --> 00:33:04,486
What are you doing?
When did you learn how to read?

436
00:33:04,551 --> 00:33:07,491
Why don't you get your head
in the ballgame?

437
00:33:11,325 --> 00:33:14,265
Hello to each and every one of you.

438
00:33:38,521 --> 00:33:40,291
- Who signed you?
- Go to hell, Cobb.

439
00:33:40,356 --> 00:33:41,391
Who did that?

440
00:33:41,457 --> 00:33:43,562
Excellent day for a game of ball.

441
00:33:43,627 --> 00:33:45,630
- How do you do, Cyclops?
- Shut up, Cobb.

442
00:33:45,696 --> 00:33:47,766
You're missing an excellent ball game.

443
00:33:47,831 --> 00:33:49,334
By the way...

444
00:33:51,969 --> 00:33:55,241
your wife left these
in my automobile last night.

445
00:33:55,305 --> 00:33:57,911
I thought you might wanna
take them back to her.

446
00:33:57,975 --> 00:33:59,812
Let's see what we have on the mound today.

447
00:33:59,877 --> 00:34:01,914
- Play ball!
- Come along!

448
00:34:06,317 --> 00:34:08,255
Strike one!

449
00:34:09,754 --> 00:34:11,557
Is that all your boy has?

450
00:34:11,622 --> 00:34:14,228
This must be a hometown boy. Look at this.

451
00:34:14,292 --> 00:34:17,866
You better check your wife.
One of the ballplayers are missing.

452
00:34:17,930 --> 00:34:19,400
Come on, boy.

453
00:34:20,533 --> 00:34:22,536
You're going down, Cobb.

454
00:34:23,635 --> 00:34:24,637
Ball!

455
00:34:27,106 --> 00:34:29,176
Is that the fastest you can throw?

456
00:34:29,241 --> 00:34:32,014
If I couldn't throw any better than that,
I'd wear a dress!

457
00:34:32,078 --> 00:34:34,516
It's kind of tough hittin'
from your back, ain't it?

458
00:34:34,581 --> 00:34:37,386
That's the way your mother always liked it.

459
00:34:45,092 --> 00:34:46,093
Play ball!

460
00:35:06,715 --> 00:35:08,885
- Safe!
- Get out of here, boy!

461
00:35:11,887 --> 00:35:15,060
You should've thrown it at my head!
You should've tried to kill me!

462
00:35:15,124 --> 00:35:17,628
I hear you're from Georgia,
where the men are men...

463
00:35:17,692 --> 00:35:20,231
- and the sheep are nervous.
- Get back on that hill.

464
00:35:20,329 --> 00:35:22,499
I'm gonna steal third on you, young man.

465
00:35:22,564 --> 00:35:24,467
I'm coming down there!

466
00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:57,736
That's enough!

467
00:35:58,235 --> 00:35:59,772
Come on, Cobb!

468
00:36:04,476 --> 00:36:08,550
You want in on the action?
My grandmother throws better than that!

469
00:36:08,613 --> 00:36:11,720
- I'm coming down to kick your daggone ass!
- Come on!

470
00:36:11,784 --> 00:36:15,190
I should've stuck it in that bastard's ear
when I had a chance.

471
00:36:23,896 --> 00:36:25,799
He's going, he's going!

472
00:36:32,872 --> 00:36:33,874
Safe!

473
00:36:53,027 --> 00:36:54,163
Son of a bitch!

474
00:37:06,407 --> 00:37:10,182
In those days, you didn't hold hands
and dance with the men on the other teams.

475
00:37:10,246 --> 00:37:13,185
They were the enemy
and you fought with them.

476
00:37:13,682 --> 00:37:17,322
And I was the most hated man in baseball.

477
00:37:18,454 --> 00:37:20,892
You know what it's like
to be booed like that?

478
00:37:20,957 --> 00:37:23,662
It feels wonderful!

479
00:37:23,893 --> 00:37:28,067
They couldn't live without me!
They came to the ball park to see me!

480
00:37:28,298 --> 00:37:32,339
fifty thousand fans trying to kill me,
everywhere I went.

481
00:37:32,835 --> 00:37:34,941
I had so many death threats at one time...

482
00:37:35,005 --> 00:37:38,679
the cops had to patrol the outfield
and the stands, looking for snipers.

483
00:37:38,743 --> 00:37:40,112
I loved it!

484
00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:44,184
Hey, Cobb! Just stay out of my game...

485
00:37:44,249 --> 00:37:46,152
Only great men are booed, Stump.

486
00:37:46,217 --> 00:37:49,423
Captains of industry, presidents,
I knew them all.

487
00:37:49,988 --> 00:37:53,561
It was a fact, in those days,
that Woodrow Wilson had the best scotch...

488
00:37:53,625 --> 00:37:57,064
and used to invite me to the White House
to try it out.

489
00:37:58,664 --> 00:38:02,171
It was also a Fact
that Warren Harding had the best broads...

490
00:38:02,234 --> 00:38:03,869
and threw the best damn parties.

491
00:38:03,935 --> 00:38:06,073
I can tell you right now
that Calvin Coolidge...

492
00:38:06,138 --> 00:38:09,077
and that stupid cat of his
weren't any fun at all.

493
00:38:10,576 --> 00:38:14,016
After World War Il, General George Patton
asked me for my autograph.

494
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,217
Said he'd patterned himself after me.

495
00:38:16,283 --> 00:38:18,320
- You getting all this?
- I'll remember.

496
00:38:18,384 --> 00:38:21,791
- How come you don't write it down?
- Because I'm preparing to die.

497
00:38:21,854 --> 00:38:23,624
- I'm not ready to die.
- I'm not either!

498
00:38:23,690 --> 00:38:26,830
I'm going to Reno to get laid,
and you're gonna get laid.

499
00:38:26,893 --> 00:38:29,231
Maybe I don't want to get laid.

500
00:38:30,030 --> 00:38:31,400
You queer?

501
00:38:31,865 --> 00:38:33,868
- I'm married.
- I thought you were divorced.

502
00:38:33,934 --> 00:38:37,006
No, we're having a problem,
but we're talking it out.

503
00:38:37,071 --> 00:38:40,043
"Talking. " Shit. Quit hanging on.
Get you a divorce.

504
00:38:40,108 --> 00:38:41,743
That why you won't get laid in Reno?

505
00:38:41,810 --> 00:38:44,214
You're feeling loyal to a woman
you're gonna divorce?

506
00:38:44,278 --> 00:38:46,181
That's pretty stupid, Stumpy.

507
00:38:46,380 --> 00:38:49,119
I'm not getting a divorce. I'm being loyal.

508
00:38:49,183 --> 00:38:51,788
That's why you wined and dined
the little brunette...

509
00:38:51,853 --> 00:38:54,993
who had the office across the courtyard
from you in Santa Barbara?

510
00:38:55,057 --> 00:38:57,428
- What do you know about her?
- I do my homework.

511
00:38:57,492 --> 00:39:00,130
- It didn't last long.
- You don't have to explain.

512
00:39:00,195 --> 00:39:03,969
When it comes to women, I'm a total shit.
The difference is, I know I'm a shit.

513
00:39:04,032 --> 00:39:06,638
- Nobody knows about the brunette!
- It's our secret.

514
00:39:06,702 --> 00:39:09,841
The part about me being a shit with women
ain't going in the book.

515
00:39:09,905 --> 00:39:13,212
- I gotta put your family in my book.
- Your book? My book!

516
00:39:13,276 --> 00:39:16,582
Nothing about my ex-wives
or my children is gonna be in it.

517
00:39:16,646 --> 00:39:18,951
- My book is about baseball.
- My book is about Cobb.

518
00:39:19,015 --> 00:39:21,018
Cobb is baseball!

519
00:39:22,051 --> 00:39:23,053
Look.

520
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,390
What is that?

521
00:39:25,889 --> 00:39:27,659
- That's a man!
- Fuck him.

522
00:39:27,724 --> 00:39:29,194
Stop the car.

523
00:39:30,961 --> 00:39:34,268
Whoever it is,
gotta be pretty stupid to be
out in this shit.

524
00:39:34,331 --> 00:39:36,501
Why? We're out in this shit.

525
00:39:45,043 --> 00:39:48,884
Come on! Get in the car.
What the hell are you doing out here?

526
00:39:50,115 --> 00:39:52,385
- It's you!
- It's the writer!

527
00:39:52,450 --> 00:39:54,353
- Get in the damn car.
- Thank you.

528
00:39:54,419 --> 00:39:56,624
I can't believe you found me.

529
00:39:59,425 --> 00:40:02,430
I told you, you wouldn't last a day
with that bastard.

530
00:40:04,797 --> 00:40:06,400
Cobb's in the car. He's driving.

531
00:40:06,465 --> 00:40:10,406
Mr. Cobb's in the car? I ain't getting
in the car with that son of a bitch.

532
00:40:10,469 --> 00:40:11,672
- I'd rather-
- Get in the car!

533
00:40:11,738 --> 00:40:14,944
- He hates me. He hates colored people.
- He hates all fucking people!

534
00:40:15,007 --> 00:40:17,346
Don't give him the satisfaction
of dying out here.

535
00:40:17,411 --> 00:40:20,483
If dying out here gives him pleasure,
then I won't die out here.

536
00:40:26,687 --> 00:40:28,757
It's Willie. We'll get him over to town.

537
00:40:28,823 --> 00:40:31,862
I ain't taking that nigger anywhere.
Get your ass out of here.

538
00:40:31,926 --> 00:40:33,929
Shut the fuck up and give him a lift!

539
00:40:33,994 --> 00:40:36,399
You ain't gonna shoot me. He's bluffing.

540
00:40:37,365 --> 00:40:41,573
No, I won't. But I'm sure Willie here
will take great satisfaction in it.

541
00:40:45,674 --> 00:40:47,944
- Willie, you a baseball fan?
- Yes, sir.

542
00:40:48,009 --> 00:40:50,113
Who's the greatest ballplayer,
in your opinion?

543
00:40:50,179 --> 00:40:52,182
Willie Mays, no doubt about it.

544
00:40:52,314 --> 00:40:56,055
- That nigger couldn't hold my jockey strap.
- Excuse me, the man is speaking.

545
00:40:56,118 --> 00:40:59,457
And I'd say, the second-greatest player
is Jackie Robinson.

546
00:40:59,554 --> 00:41:02,795
- You know that's horseshit.
- Josh Gibson is the greatest catcher.

547
00:41:02,859 --> 00:41:05,297
- What about Mickey Cochrane?
- What about Campanella?

548
00:41:05,362 --> 00:41:10,171
You try to steal on Campy,
he'd run down there and tag your ass out.

549
00:41:10,433 --> 00:41:12,737
That's very poor firearm safety, Willie.

550
00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:15,073
Willie, who was the best base runner?

551
00:41:15,205 --> 00:41:19,480
Well, of course, the greatest base runner
of all time isn't riding in this car.

552
00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:20,745
No?

553
00:41:20,811 --> 00:41:24,852
The fastest base runner of all time
was "Cool Papa" Bell.

554
00:41:24,915 --> 00:41:26,551
"Cool Papa" Bell, my ass.

555
00:41:26,617 --> 00:41:30,091
"Cool Papa" Bell was so fast,
once he hit a line drive up the middle...

556
00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:33,193
that hit himself in the head
sliding into second base.

557
00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:37,631
Okay, best pitcher. Satchel Paige?

558
00:41:37,929 --> 00:41:40,634
Satchel Paige can throw a pork chop
past a wolf.

559
00:41:40,698 --> 00:41:43,404
Mr. Cobb, with that hesitation pitch...

560
00:41:43,468 --> 00:41:48,211
old Satchel would have had you
batting .220 and kissing his black ass.

561
00:41:48,473 --> 00:41:52,047
I didn't know you were prejudiced,
only talking about nigger ballplayers.

562
00:41:52,110 --> 00:41:54,683
Prejudiced? You calling me prejudiced?

563
00:41:54,847 --> 00:41:56,917
The man with the gun does the talking.

564
00:41:56,982 --> 00:41:58,985
You wretched old prick.

565
00:42:05,025 --> 00:42:06,527
Slow down, Mr. Cobb.

566
00:42:07,060 --> 00:42:08,061
Watch it.

567
00:42:11,264 --> 00:42:13,101
What the hell are you doing?

568
00:42:27,582 --> 00:42:29,117
That's it. I'm driving.

569
00:42:29,183 --> 00:42:32,189
Get your hands off
the goddamn steering wheel.

570
00:43:02,752 --> 00:43:04,555
Fucked up roads, Stumpy.

571
00:43:07,457 --> 00:43:08,859
Thank you, Lord.

572
00:43:10,193 --> 00:43:12,398
And I want to thank you, Mr. Cobb...

573
00:43:12,763 --> 00:43:14,532
for the lift into town.

574
00:43:15,733 --> 00:43:16,968
And you, sir...

575
00:43:17,468 --> 00:43:20,974
you should leave
this disgusting, wretched...

576
00:43:21,205 --> 00:43:24,845
sorry son of a motherfucker immediately.

577
00:43:25,911 --> 00:43:27,146
Good evening.

578
00:43:43,495 --> 00:43:45,699
Oh, thank you, Jesus.

579
00:43:46,432 --> 00:43:48,703
Oh, Lord, there's Reno, Nevada.

580
00:44:24,439 --> 00:44:26,141
What is the problem now?

581
00:44:26,941 --> 00:44:28,644
I'm a loyal customer...

582
00:44:29,043 --> 00:44:30,613
All you do is complain.

583
00:44:30,679 --> 00:44:33,952
Complain? Have you ever tried drying off
with one of your towels?

584
00:44:34,016 --> 00:44:35,051
You can see through them.

585
00:44:35,117 --> 00:44:37,689
You cannot see through them.
Plus, people steal them.

586
00:44:37,753 --> 00:44:39,088
I can't keep good ones in stock.

587
00:44:39,154 --> 00:44:41,258
They're thicker than your blankets.

588
00:44:41,323 --> 00:44:42,592
Two rooms, please.

589
00:44:42,658 --> 00:44:44,628
Get in line. I'm in the middle of something.

590
00:44:44,694 --> 00:44:48,168
The heat's on the blink.
The mattress is lumpy. I want a discount.

591
00:44:48,231 --> 00:44:51,337
- Mona, you always want a discount.
- Ramona.

592
00:44:52,035 --> 00:44:53,203
And the mattress is-

593
00:44:53,269 --> 00:44:57,076
Excuse me, I got a very sick man.
Can I get him checked in, please?

594
00:44:57,140 --> 00:45:00,012
We're all sick in the eyes of God,
but we still have manners.

595
00:45:00,076 --> 00:45:02,281
- I'm not through with you yet, Jane.
- Ramona-

596
00:45:02,346 --> 00:45:03,848
I'm moving down the street.

597
00:45:03,913 --> 00:45:07,454
As a matter of fact,
I'm moving to a higher-level establishment.

598
00:45:07,985 --> 00:45:09,687
May I help you?

599
00:45:11,421 --> 00:45:14,562
Two rooms, please.

600
00:45:21,466 --> 00:45:23,837
I was a fool for thinking
Cobb's brilliance...

601
00:45:23,902 --> 00:45:26,373
might be what I needed
at this moment of my life.

602
00:45:26,437 --> 00:45:28,643
Ty Cobb was the last thing I needed.

603
00:45:28,974 --> 00:45:30,711
He was not misunderstood.

604
00:45:30,809 --> 00:45:32,746
He was understood perfectly well.

605
00:45:32,811 --> 00:45:36,218
He hated blacks. He hated Jews.
He hated Catholics.

606
00:45:36,282 --> 00:45:39,855
He hated everything except himself
and his own view of the world.

607
00:46:11,786 --> 00:46:15,693
"Pathetic, paranoid, and lost in the past. "
What is this shit?

608
00:46:15,756 --> 00:46:17,961
Those are my notes.
You can't look at my notes.

609
00:46:18,026 --> 00:46:21,031
Your fucking notes is my goddamn life.
You're gonna betray me.

610
00:46:21,096 --> 00:46:22,364
I'm gonna tell the truth.

611
00:46:22,431 --> 00:46:24,334
- Whose truth?
- Mine. I'm the writer.

612
00:46:24,399 --> 00:46:28,508
And I am the legend,
and legends are not fucking pathetic.

613
00:46:29,404 --> 00:46:31,242
They're just notes.

614
00:46:31,307 --> 00:46:33,611
You don't know a thing
about greatness, do you?

615
00:46:33,675 --> 00:46:34,677
So sue me.

616
00:46:34,744 --> 00:46:37,616
Why don't you find yourself another writer?

617
00:46:39,482 --> 00:46:40,851
There's no time.

618
00:46:43,119 --> 00:46:45,324
Okay, I'm entitled to my opinion.

619
00:46:45,588 --> 00:46:47,325
That is truly pathetic.

620
00:46:47,490 --> 00:46:50,662
Who gives a good goddamn
about the opinions of Al Stump?

621
00:46:50,728 --> 00:46:54,234
What people want to know about
is Tyrus Raymond Cobb...

622
00:46:54,331 --> 00:46:57,070
not who he hates,
'cause everyone hates somebody.

623
00:46:57,134 --> 00:47:00,774
They don't care if he had two wives or 10,
if he hit women or they hit him.

624
00:47:00,838 --> 00:47:03,677
You think they want to know
how to steal second base?

625
00:47:03,741 --> 00:47:05,044
Yes, precisely!

626
00:47:05,343 --> 00:47:06,445
I don't.

627
00:47:06,510 --> 00:47:09,917
I get it. You're one of these
college psychology-type fellows.

628
00:47:09,981 --> 00:47:13,655
You want to find the missing piece
of the puzzle known as the Madman Cobb.

629
00:47:13,718 --> 00:47:16,723
You think you'll be
the next Ernest Hemingway?

630
00:47:16,788 --> 00:47:19,995
You're just a moderate-sized success
in a moderate-sized pond.

631
00:47:20,058 --> 00:47:23,933
Fuck you, Cobb.
I am much more than a moderate success.

632
00:47:24,229 --> 00:47:27,636
You sure have a little spirit there.
I like that. That's good.

633
00:47:29,067 --> 00:47:31,238
You want some goddamn psychology, son?

634
00:47:31,303 --> 00:47:32,839
I'm all ears.

635
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:34,608
You listen to me.

636
00:47:35,208 --> 00:47:37,145
I'll give you some psychology.

637
00:47:42,615 --> 00:47:44,518
My father was a great man.

638
00:47:47,253 --> 00:47:51,595
He told my mother he was going out of town
for the weekend on business.

639
00:47:51,925 --> 00:47:53,495
But he didn't go.

640
00:47:54,328 --> 00:47:58,669
He came back, because he thought
she was being unfaithful.

641
00:48:00,067 --> 00:48:03,373
I don't know why he thought it,
but he thought it.

642
00:48:04,672 --> 00:48:09,248
My father thought he would catch the man
who was trying to steal his wife from him.

643
00:48:09,944 --> 00:48:11,747
Catch him in the act.

644
00:48:14,716 --> 00:48:18,925
My father had high standards. The highest.

645
00:48:19,321 --> 00:48:21,158
He believed in quality.

646
00:48:21,323 --> 00:48:23,294
He believed in education.

647
00:48:23,459 --> 00:48:25,028
He believed in God.

648
00:48:25,194 --> 00:48:26,663
He believed in me.

649
00:48:27,196 --> 00:48:28,999
He believed in my mother.

650
00:48:30,499 --> 00:48:32,704
But on that night...

651
00:48:33,202 --> 00:48:35,272
he seemed like a prowler.

652
00:48:36,038 --> 00:48:37,374
And so...

653
00:48:39,909 --> 00:48:42,781
my mother killed my father.

654
00:48:43,180 --> 00:48:45,117
Shot him in the belly...

655
00:48:52,590 --> 00:48:56,531
and then blew his head clean off.

656
00:49:02,166 --> 00:49:04,170
Your mother killed your father?

657
00:49:04,335 --> 00:49:07,507
Pretty goddamn good piece of psychology,
wouldn't you say?

658
00:49:07,571 --> 00:49:10,812
Childhood incident that explains me.

659
00:49:11,710 --> 00:49:13,413
Let me tell you something.

660
00:49:13,712 --> 00:49:17,352
I was a prick before it happened,
and a much bigger prick after it happened.

661
00:49:17,416 --> 00:49:20,255
You can stick that
up your Sigmund Freud ass.

662
00:49:20,419 --> 00:49:24,193
- Your mother killed your father?
- And you're not printing it, either.

663
00:49:24,290 --> 00:49:28,399
- I have to.
- No, not unless I say so.

664
00:49:28,528 --> 00:49:31,367
I don't think you understand something,
young man.

665
00:49:31,831 --> 00:49:35,505
- I have final editorial
approval of your book.
- No, I do.

666
00:49:35,635 --> 00:49:37,238
I always have it.

667
00:49:37,304 --> 00:49:38,840
Did you read your contract?

668
00:49:38,906 --> 00:49:40,643
It's my standard contract.

669
00:49:40,874 --> 00:49:43,579
I wouldn't have agreed
if I didn't have final approval.

670
00:49:43,644 --> 00:49:45,881
You better call your agent, boy, right now.

671
00:49:45,946 --> 00:49:48,851
Better call your lawyer.
Wouldn't hurt to call your mother.

672
00:49:48,916 --> 00:49:50,719
You're gonna need all three of them.

673
00:49:50,784 --> 00:49:52,787
Play another one of your games.

674
00:49:54,455 --> 00:49:57,460
You better call William and Morris.

675
00:50:04,599 --> 00:50:06,202
Long distance, please.

676
00:50:06,535 --> 00:50:09,073
Murray Hill, 65955.

677
00:50:12,975 --> 00:50:14,845
Sterling? Al.

678
00:50:14,910 --> 00:50:15,911
Sterling?

679
00:50:15,978 --> 00:50:18,450
No, it's going great. Couldn't be better.

680
00:50:19,715 --> 00:50:21,518
Look, quick question.

681
00:50:22,017 --> 00:50:25,824
We didn't give away final editorial approval
on the Cobb book, did we?

682
00:50:34,865 --> 00:50:37,403
Doesn't change anything?
What are you talking about?

683
00:50:37,468 --> 00:50:39,638
Everything's just swell. Hunky-dory.

684
00:50:41,638 --> 00:50:43,274
Everything's just fine.

685
00:50:43,540 --> 00:50:45,243
Speak to you later. Bye.

686
00:50:45,877 --> 00:50:49,350
You're pretty damn stupid
to give up editorial approval, aren't you?

687
00:50:50,247 --> 00:50:53,186
Predatory bastard.
Think you're going to pick over my bones...

688
00:50:53,250 --> 00:50:55,788
- you got another think coming.
- Fuck you, Cobb.

689
00:50:55,853 --> 00:50:58,391
Fuck me? How come you're so mad at me?

690
00:50:58,456 --> 00:51:01,195
Your publisher, your lawyer,
and your agent made the deal.

691
00:51:01,259 --> 00:51:04,833
You didn't read the contract
because you're a very trusting soul.

692
00:51:04,930 --> 00:51:07,602
Whoever heard of trusting
a lawyer or an agent?

693
00:51:07,666 --> 00:51:11,306
If I was Al Stump, the man
I'd be pissed off at now would be Al Stump.

694
00:51:11,370 --> 00:51:13,474
Listen to me, you son of a bitch.

695
00:51:14,039 --> 00:51:16,444
If you die before this book is finished...

696
00:51:16,509 --> 00:51:18,112
I'll write the story I want.

697
00:51:18,177 --> 00:51:19,880
I won't die before it's finished.

698
00:51:19,946 --> 00:51:22,183
- I'll write slow.
- I'll die slow.

699
00:51:23,517 --> 00:51:26,255
Get your clothes on.
We're going to go get some pussy.

700
00:51:34,827 --> 00:51:37,533
for you're the lover I have waited for

701
00:51:37,597 --> 00:51:41,237
You're the man that Fate had me created For

702
00:51:41,636 --> 00:51:45,243
And every time your lips meet mine

703
00:51:45,306 --> 00:51:49,447
Baby, down and down I go
Round and round I go

704
00:51:49,510 --> 00:51:51,647
In a spin, loving the spin I'm in

705
00:51:51,712 --> 00:51:53,817
Cigars? Cigarettes?

706
00:51:56,918 --> 00:51:59,890
Mr. Cobb, what a pleasure.

707
00:51:59,955 --> 00:52:01,992
I'll take that. Take their coats.

708
00:52:05,294 --> 00:52:08,533
In a spin, loving the spin I'm in

709
00:52:08,597 --> 00:52:09,866
Thank you.

710
00:52:09,932 --> 00:52:12,303
- Watch your step.
- Get your hand off me.

711
00:52:12,602 --> 00:52:16,409
I just stay away, but what can I do

712
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,286
- Guess they know you here.
- A little bit.

713
00:52:27,383 --> 00:52:30,523
Cigars, cigarettes!

714
00:52:31,622 --> 00:52:34,761
I'll bet you $100
I can get into her britches before dawn.

715
00:52:34,825 --> 00:52:38,766
My God, it's Mona. Ramona.
We met her at the hotel, remember?

716
00:52:38,862 --> 00:52:41,300
Young lady. Come on over here.

717
00:52:42,733 --> 00:52:44,470
Good evening, gentlemen.

718
00:52:45,269 --> 00:52:49,745
Cigars, maybe? We stockpiled Havanas
before Señor Castro did his little number.

719
00:52:49,807 --> 00:52:53,047
Sure. Couple of Montecristos, please.
Number Two, Ramona.

720
00:52:53,111 --> 00:52:56,451
- Have we met?
- Yes, at the hotel. Checking in.

721
00:52:56,748 --> 00:52:58,184
You were the asshole.

722
00:52:58,250 --> 00:53:00,120
Excuse me, young lady.

723
00:53:00,853 --> 00:53:04,894
I'll apologize for the manners of my friend.
He has a crude side.

724
00:53:05,157 --> 00:53:06,158
I accept.

725
00:53:06,526 --> 00:53:09,063
Ramona. That's a lovely name.
That's a Spanish name.

726
00:53:09,128 --> 00:53:12,568
That means "moonlit garden of the gods,"
doesn't it?

727
00:53:13,967 --> 00:53:18,075
It's German. It means "wise protectress."
But thanks for the thought.

728
00:53:18,271 --> 00:53:19,339
Thanks for the tip.

729
00:53:19,405 --> 00:53:22,244
Just a minute here.
I want to see all your cigars.

730
00:53:25,145 --> 00:53:27,350
Keely, got something for you.

731
00:53:28,549 --> 00:53:31,888
Thank you very much. We loves you, too.
You're a great crowd.

732
00:53:33,453 --> 00:53:36,259
I've been informed
that we have a celebrity with us tonight.

733
00:53:36,323 --> 00:53:37,358
A legend.

734
00:53:37,424 --> 00:53:39,762
A man who truly needs no introduction.

735
00:53:39,827 --> 00:53:42,866
I'm gonna play a little
trick on you, darling.
You watch this.

736
00:53:42,930 --> 00:53:45,034
The one and only Ty Cobb.

737
00:53:48,036 --> 00:53:49,171
Got you, didn't I?

738
00:53:49,237 --> 00:53:52,076
Didn't think you'd be in show business,
did you, darling?

739
00:53:52,140 --> 00:53:54,845
Come on here with me,
and we'll cut a rug up here!

740
00:53:54,910 --> 00:53:56,412
Sweet Georgia Brown.

741
00:53:57,012 --> 00:53:59,517
I don't think this is such a good idea.

742
00:54:01,883 --> 00:54:03,754
I can't wait till she kisses me

743
00:54:03,819 --> 00:54:06,124
Under the old green tree

744
00:54:07,090 --> 00:54:09,862
"Moonlit garden of the gods. "

745
00:54:10,860 --> 00:54:15,436
Since she came, it's a shame
how she cools 'em down

746
00:54:15,498 --> 00:54:18,171
There are fellers she can't get

747
00:54:18,235 --> 00:54:20,572
There are fellers she ain't met yet

748
00:54:20,637 --> 00:54:22,942
Georgia named her, Georgia claimed her

749
00:54:23,006 --> 00:54:24,509
Sweet Georgia Brown

750
00:54:24,975 --> 00:54:26,510
Come on up here with Louis.

751
00:54:26,576 --> 00:54:28,981
Come on, right here, darling. Love you.

752
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:31,082
They want you, Ty.

753
00:54:32,350 --> 00:54:34,587
Of course they want me.

754
00:54:41,726 --> 00:54:44,131
Sam, I see you over there now.

755
00:54:44,295 --> 00:54:45,598
How you doing, baby?

756
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,538
How about this right here, baby?

757
00:54:51,603 --> 00:54:53,273
She can't get

758
00:54:53,339 --> 00:54:55,109
How about a little smooch?

759
00:54:56,541 --> 00:54:58,612
You're very sweet. That's great, darling.

760
00:55:00,847 --> 00:55:02,282
All right!

761
00:55:02,414 --> 00:55:04,050
Sweet Georgia Brown!

762
00:55:10,590 --> 00:55:12,627
This cat can really swing.

763
00:55:14,094 --> 00:55:17,433
Help Louis welcome Mr. Ty Cobb.

764
00:55:21,635 --> 00:55:23,538
It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Cobb.

765
00:55:23,604 --> 00:55:27,078
I'm a big baseball fan,
so I always wanted to ask you a question.

766
00:55:27,308 --> 00:55:30,247
With all the great players
playing ball right now...

767
00:55:30,344 --> 00:55:33,316
how well do you think you'd do
against today's pitchers?

768
00:55:33,381 --> 00:55:36,821
Against today's pitchers,
I'd probably hit only. 290.

769
00:55:37,051 --> 00:55:38,487
That's amazing...

770
00:55:38,553 --> 00:55:42,193
because you batted over .400
a whole bunch of times.

771
00:55:42,391 --> 00:55:44,261
Now tell us all, we'd like to know...

772
00:55:44,326 --> 00:55:46,998
why do you think you'd only hit .290?

773
00:55:47,095 --> 00:55:50,703
I'm 72 fucking years old,
you ignorant son of a bitch, that's why.

774
00:55:50,766 --> 00:55:52,569
Let me see this thing here.

775
00:55:52,635 --> 00:55:55,640
first of all, I want to say
thank you for Sweet Georgia Brown.

776
00:55:55,705 --> 00:55:58,377
A very fine song about my home state,
and I appreciate it.

777
00:55:58,441 --> 00:56:02,348
That song has become the theme song
of the Harlem Globetrotters lately.

778
00:56:02,712 --> 00:56:06,319
It's too bad such a fine song had to be
taken over by a bunch of niggers...

779
00:56:06,382 --> 00:56:08,352
playing a faggot's game in their underwear.

780
00:56:08,418 --> 00:56:12,493
That team is owned by a Jew
named Saperstein, so what do you expect?

781
00:56:12,556 --> 00:56:14,693
Thank you very much, Mr. Cobb.

782
00:56:14,758 --> 00:56:16,962
- Now let me explain-
- Thank you very much.

783
00:56:17,026 --> 00:56:19,599
Let's have one more round of applause
for Mr. Ty Cobb.

784
00:56:19,663 --> 00:56:22,502
Give me the damn microphone,
you daggone bastard.

785
00:56:22,599 --> 00:56:24,569
Get this cracker off my stage.

786
00:56:25,269 --> 00:56:28,341
Let me explain how to hit a baseball.
It's a lost art.

787
00:56:29,173 --> 00:56:32,513
Ever since that half-nigger Babe Ruth
started hitting home runs...

788
00:56:32,577 --> 00:56:35,616
the skill, art and science of it
have been lost.

789
00:56:36,081 --> 00:56:37,750
Let's say, for example...

790
00:56:51,697 --> 00:56:54,102
- Tom Collins?
- Coming right up, Joanna.

791
00:57:11,785 --> 00:57:12,954
It's you again.

792
00:57:13,020 --> 00:57:15,992
Hey, I didn't get your friend's name.
Who is that?

793
00:57:16,056 --> 00:57:17,993
That is Ty Cobb.

794
00:57:18,626 --> 00:57:21,063
The greatest baseball player of all time.

795
00:57:21,396 --> 00:57:23,967
Baseball, shmaseball
he should have been a dancer.

796
00:57:24,031 --> 00:57:26,836
Gotta tell you, the guy likes to lead.
So hard to follow.

797
00:57:26,901 --> 00:57:30,108
I haven't been spun around like that
for I don't know how long.

798
00:57:30,171 --> 00:57:31,506
You and me both.

799
00:57:35,376 --> 00:57:37,581
You are a beautiful woman.

800
00:57:38,179 --> 00:57:41,753
It's the wig. Goddamn thing itches
but it's good for tips.

801
00:57:41,817 --> 00:57:43,988
Give me a little scratch, will you?

802
00:57:44,553 --> 00:57:45,822
Little faster.

803
00:57:46,823 --> 00:57:48,158
Very nice.

804
00:57:48,357 --> 00:57:50,995
Artie, another round. On him.

805
00:57:51,126 --> 00:57:53,264
Ramona, you're still on the clock.

806
00:57:53,430 --> 00:57:54,565
We have rules here.

807
00:57:54,630 --> 00:57:57,536
You can't sit next to your hair.
Sit under your hair.

808
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,203
Gotta put your wig on.

809
00:57:59,336 --> 00:58:03,110
My follicles need to breathe,
and my shift is over.

810
00:58:05,108 --> 00:58:07,746
It's crooked. Your wig's crooked.
It's tilted too much.

811
00:58:07,811 --> 00:58:11,050
- If you pick it up over the eyebrow-
- Does it bother you?

812
00:58:11,147 --> 00:58:12,718
No, not at all.

813
00:58:13,517 --> 00:58:14,785
I like it.

814
00:58:15,586 --> 00:58:18,893
I suppose you want to take me to bed.
Is that right?

815
00:58:23,828 --> 00:58:25,197
You want money?

816
00:58:26,598 --> 00:58:29,236
I'm not a whore.
I don't know what you take me for.

817
00:58:29,301 --> 00:58:32,340
- That's one of the most insulting things-
- I'm sorry.

818
00:58:33,405 --> 00:58:35,408
I'm not very good at this.
Let me start over.

819
00:58:35,474 --> 00:58:38,213
My name is Al Stump. I'm a writer.
I'm here on assignment.

820
00:58:38,276 --> 00:58:41,316
- Divorced?
- Not yet.

821
00:58:42,047 --> 00:58:43,717
What a stupid answer.

822
00:58:43,782 --> 00:58:45,953
- Is it that obvious?
- It's written all over you.

823
00:58:46,018 --> 00:58:47,921
If you want to pay me to screw, I won't.

824
00:58:47,987 --> 00:58:49,290
- Then I won't.
- Pay or screw?

825
00:58:49,355 --> 00:58:50,924
- Whatever.
- You don't wanna screw?

826
00:58:50,991 --> 00:58:52,526
- I do.
- All this ambiguity.

827
00:58:52,592 --> 00:58:54,329
I see why she's divorcing you.

828
00:58:54,394 --> 00:58:58,101
I don't know what I am doing.
I'm just trying to speak my heart.

829
00:58:59,132 --> 00:59:02,104
I asked my wife for a divorce.
She said, "Okay. "

830
00:59:02,168 --> 00:59:03,804
Now I'm thinking, maybe I don't.

831
00:59:03,870 --> 00:59:05,640
- Then go back to her.
- No.

832
00:59:05,906 --> 00:59:07,542
Then quit crying.

833
00:59:08,075 --> 00:59:10,145
You want a divorce,
you don't want a divorce?

834
00:59:10,210 --> 00:59:14,352
You're asking marital advice from a woman
you're trying to get in the sack.

835
00:59:14,415 --> 00:59:17,388
I'm sorry. I gotta apologize.
I'm really not myself.

836
00:59:17,452 --> 00:59:18,654
Who is?

837
00:59:20,388 --> 00:59:23,360
This assignment has got me
totally befuddled.

838
00:59:23,525 --> 00:59:26,264
Am I to tell the world
that this monster is a prince?

839
00:59:26,327 --> 00:59:28,065
Am I just supposed to lie?

840
00:59:28,130 --> 00:59:30,300
- You getting paid?
- Very well.

841
00:59:30,799 --> 00:59:32,836
Then it's not a lie. It's a job.

842
00:59:33,101 --> 00:59:35,071
Quit agonizing. Take the money.

843
00:59:35,137 --> 00:59:37,976
- Do what you gotta do,
and get it over with.
- I can't.

844
00:59:38,474 --> 00:59:40,077
- Then quit.
- I can't.

845
00:59:40,309 --> 00:59:43,816
- For God's sake, why not?
- Because he knows greatness.

846
00:59:46,382 --> 00:59:48,319
I wanna learn about greatness.

847
00:59:48,718 --> 00:59:50,488
Greatness is overrated.

848
00:59:54,724 --> 00:59:56,194
Maybe you're right.

849
01:00:00,831 --> 01:00:04,070
I'm sorry I bothered you.
I've been a little out of sorts.

850
01:00:05,202 --> 01:00:06,505
See you around.

851
01:00:06,971 --> 01:00:09,041
I'm an expert on out of sorts.

852
01:00:18,416 --> 01:00:21,088
Don't drink too much.

853
01:00:21,219 --> 01:00:24,124
You think I won't be able to screw
if I'm too drunk?

854
01:00:24,222 --> 01:00:26,660
Yeah, that crossed my mind.

855
01:00:28,694 --> 01:00:30,130
Screw...

856
01:00:41,140 --> 01:00:43,010
Hey, I love this song.

857
01:00:49,815 --> 01:00:51,987
You are so thoughtful.

858
01:00:54,221 --> 01:00:56,626
The others are trying to get me drunk...

859
01:00:56,890 --> 01:00:59,060
and you're trying to keep me sober.

860
01:01:02,596 --> 01:01:04,700
You'd be good husband material.

861
01:01:08,302 --> 01:01:09,705
Let's dance.

862
01:01:10,604 --> 01:01:12,274
Honey, I was...

863
01:01:16,144 --> 01:01:17,647
Let's dance, Ginger.

864
01:01:18,046 --> 01:01:19,282
Ramona.

865
01:01:42,572 --> 01:01:45,010
Maybe this isn't such a good idea.

866
01:02:00,825 --> 01:02:04,999
You two-timing bastard!
You goddamn Judas Iscariot!

867
01:02:05,062 --> 01:02:06,465
You're stealing my girl.

868
01:02:06,531 --> 01:02:08,534
Stop that. She's not your girl.

869
01:02:09,900 --> 01:02:11,371
Are you crazy?

870
01:02:11,836 --> 01:02:13,472
Mr. Stump, are you okay?

871
01:02:15,073 --> 01:02:17,510
You're coming with me, young lady.

872
01:02:18,210 --> 01:02:20,213
Come on here, God damn it!

873
01:02:34,460 --> 01:02:35,629
What's that?

874
01:02:36,229 --> 01:02:37,699
It's my hair.

875
01:02:38,465 --> 01:02:39,767
Put it back on.

876
01:02:46,173 --> 01:02:47,441
That's better.

877
01:02:49,376 --> 01:02:51,046
Who are you again?

878
01:02:54,482 --> 01:02:56,351
I'm the Georgia Peach.

879
01:02:56,684 --> 01:03:00,023
And I have 4,191 base hits...

880
01:03:00,087 --> 01:03:03,260
in 11,429 at-bats...

881
01:03:03,324 --> 01:03:05,829
920 stolen bases...

882
01:03:05,894 --> 01:03:09,133
2,244 runs scored...

883
01:03:09,197 --> 01:03:11,234
and 93 batting records...

884
01:03:11,299 --> 01:03:14,271
and I want you take off
every stitch of your clothes.

885
01:03:16,171 --> 01:03:17,541
I don't think so.

886
01:03:24,513 --> 01:03:26,450
That don't scare me.

887
01:03:27,950 --> 01:03:32,492
'Cause if you kill me, I'll be dead,
and you're not gonna screw a dead lady.

888
01:03:34,557 --> 01:03:36,160
I might like it.

889
01:03:38,428 --> 01:03:40,733
Now you take off them goddamn clothes.

890
01:03:56,848 --> 01:03:58,483
You got big tits?

891
01:03:59,250 --> 01:04:00,853
I like big tits.

892
01:04:02,019 --> 01:04:06,061
Actually they're not so big.
They're quite average.

893
01:04:06,491 --> 01:04:09,964
That's the way they stuff these outfits,
you know, they just...

894
01:04:11,330 --> 01:04:12,432
build them.

895
01:04:12,832 --> 01:04:15,303
I owe a lot to these wigs and things.

896
01:04:16,034 --> 01:04:18,305
A girl's got to do what she's got to do,
you know.

897
01:04:18,370 --> 01:04:19,371
Shut up!

898
01:04:20,773 --> 01:04:22,142
You're shy.

899
01:04:24,210 --> 01:04:25,512
Get on the bed.

900
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:28,883
Get on that bed.

901
01:04:34,788 --> 01:04:37,159
My God, you're beautiful.

902
01:04:40,761 --> 01:04:41,762
Lay down.

903
01:04:45,266 --> 01:04:46,869
Roll over.

904
01:04:50,504 --> 01:04:53,343
What I could have done with you
in my prime.

905
01:04:53,407 --> 01:04:56,313
- I'm sure you could have, Mr. Cobb-
- Shut up!

906
01:04:56,911 --> 01:04:58,079
Turn around.

907
01:05:07,689 --> 01:05:10,762
I want you to do exactly
what I tell you to do.

908
01:05:27,677 --> 01:05:29,514
Exactly what I say.

909
01:05:31,848 --> 01:05:33,685
$1,ooo.

910
01:05:35,052 --> 01:05:37,256
- Just do what you gotta do.
- Shut up!

911
01:05:38,823 --> 01:05:41,460
You take this $1,OOO
and you tell everybody you meet...

912
01:05:41,525 --> 01:05:43,963
that you fucked the great Ty Cobb.

913
01:05:44,127 --> 01:05:47,935
And I was the greatest fuck
you've ever had in your life.

914
01:05:53,204 --> 01:05:54,573
That's all?

915
01:05:56,842 --> 01:06:00,749
- You want more? I'm a very wealthy man.
- No.

916
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:05,220
- Is that what you want me to do?
- Yes, will you do it?

917
01:06:06,285 --> 01:06:07,620
Yeah!

918
01:06:13,993 --> 01:06:18,369
You are looking at a very beautiful woman,
you limber son of bitch!

919
01:06:26,039 --> 01:06:27,574
Dead down here.

920
01:06:28,842 --> 01:06:31,647
Damn thing has been like that
for two damn years!

921
01:06:31,712 --> 01:06:33,214
Nothing! Dead!

922
01:06:39,286 --> 01:06:41,391
Get the goddamn hell out of here.

923
01:06:52,734 --> 01:06:55,940
"Georgia Peach," my ass.
Georgia trash is what he is.

924
01:06:56,004 --> 01:06:57,407
Are you all right?

925
01:07:02,177 --> 01:07:05,049
That was the best piece of ass I ever had.

926
01:07:05,180 --> 01:07:07,752
God almighty, what a beautiful girl!

927
01:07:13,689 --> 01:07:17,229
Have we missed the testimonial dinner?
We got to get up and go.

928
01:07:17,293 --> 01:07:18,762
No, it's okay.

929
01:07:19,896 --> 01:07:21,331
Just lie down.

930
01:07:21,397 --> 01:07:23,802
We'll go to the testimonial dinner.

931
01:07:25,334 --> 01:07:27,105
Got to get up and go, Stump.

932
01:07:27,170 --> 01:07:29,275
I wouldn't miss it for the world.

933
01:07:34,078 --> 01:07:35,981
That night I made a decision.

934
01:07:37,281 --> 01:07:39,118
I decided to tell the truth.

935
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:51,264
I also made another decision.

936
01:07:52,030 --> 01:07:54,200
I was gonna stay with him
and finish the book...

937
01:07:54,265 --> 01:07:56,069
no matter where he took me.

938
01:08:03,375 --> 01:08:05,847
I began working on two manuscripts.

939
01:08:05,911 --> 01:08:08,516
One was his version, My Life in Baseball.

940
01:08:08,581 --> 01:08:09,749
How to steal second base...

941
01:08:09,816 --> 01:08:12,453
or how to hit the breaking ball
to the opposite field.

942
01:08:12,518 --> 01:08:14,388
It contained nothing about his parents.

943
01:08:14,453 --> 01:08:16,991
It contained nothing
about his children and ex-wives...

944
01:08:17,056 --> 01:08:18,726
none of whom would even speak to him.

945
01:08:18,791 --> 01:08:22,599
It contained no insights from his friends
because I couldn't find any.

946
01:08:35,409 --> 01:08:37,981
It was a baseball book.
I kept it in the typewriter...

947
01:08:38,045 --> 01:08:39,983
for him to discover and amend.

948
01:08:40,381 --> 01:08:42,853
It was a book I never planned to publish.

949
01:08:44,252 --> 01:08:46,055
The second book, my book...

950
01:08:46,154 --> 01:08:48,926
was written on
legal pads and hotel stationery...

951
01:08:48,990 --> 01:08:51,762
and cocktail napkins
and anything I could scrape together...

952
01:08:51,827 --> 01:08:53,764
without drawing his attention.

953
01:08:59,969 --> 01:09:01,304
Nothing like a cigarette girl...

954
01:09:01,370 --> 01:09:04,209
and 30 hours of sleep
to invigorate a man, Stumpy.

955
01:09:05,140 --> 01:09:07,579
You look like shit.
What's the matter with you?

956
01:09:07,643 --> 01:09:09,314
I've been writing.

957
01:09:10,613 --> 01:09:12,616
Let's see how we're doing here.

958
01:09:17,153 --> 01:09:19,291
Yes, now you're getting it!

959
01:09:19,356 --> 01:09:23,030
It's none of this Sigmund Freud bullshit,
it's baseball.

960
01:09:25,028 --> 01:09:28,268
You understand.
People are no damn good, Stump.

961
01:09:29,300 --> 01:09:30,602
But you get it.

962
01:09:31,335 --> 01:09:32,838
And I can trust you.

963
01:09:45,650 --> 01:09:47,854
That's the way it goes, Stumpy.

964
01:09:47,919 --> 01:09:50,291
They boo all your career
and when you're dying...

965
01:09:50,355 --> 01:09:52,525
put you on a pedestal.
That's being a legend.

966
01:09:52,591 --> 01:09:54,294
- That for the record?
- Sure as hell is.

967
01:09:54,359 --> 01:09:56,831
I'm gonna buy in here right now,
right there!

968
01:09:56,896 --> 01:09:58,699
Place your bets, folks. New shooter.

969
01:09:58,764 --> 01:10:00,400
Money plays, give me some hot dice...

970
01:10:00,466 --> 01:10:03,138
for the hot hand, we're gonna have
a hot table any minute.

971
01:10:03,769 --> 01:10:05,672
Play's five. Mark it.

972
01:10:07,706 --> 01:10:09,077
Hi there, Magic Hands.

973
01:10:09,175 --> 01:10:10,410
Stumpy, what is that?

974
01:10:10,476 --> 01:10:14,150
Joey, two to pass, two to come,
two on four the hard way.

975
01:10:15,715 --> 01:10:17,453
I'll be a son of a bitch.

976
01:10:17,717 --> 01:10:18,853
Four!

977
01:10:18,952 --> 01:10:21,290
Very nice, thank you very much.

978
01:10:21,355 --> 01:10:23,793
It's a five. It's a three
and a two. Point's five.

979
01:10:23,858 --> 01:10:26,028
My girl go with that nigger?
I'll be goddamned.

980
01:10:26,093 --> 01:10:27,863
They're standing next to each other-

981
01:10:27,929 --> 01:10:29,197
Ramona, you with that nigger?

982
01:10:29,263 --> 01:10:32,135
Money placed on the five. Forget it.

983
01:10:32,199 --> 01:10:35,406
- That man is a monster.
- Yeah, I know.

984
01:10:35,470 --> 01:10:37,340
Wait, is she with you?

985
01:10:37,772 --> 01:10:42,181
This is my man, Mr. Cobb, and he's all man.

986
01:10:42,444 --> 01:10:46,586
My girl with my nigger.
I'll be a goddamned son of a bitch.

987
01:10:46,649 --> 01:10:49,053
You better duck down now,
you son of a bitch!

988
01:10:49,117 --> 01:10:50,854
He's got a gun. Get down.

989
01:10:56,893 --> 01:10:58,930
You goddamn yellow-belly.

990
01:11:04,300 --> 01:11:06,037
Do you know who the hell I am?

991
01:11:15,545 --> 01:11:19,085
I told him the testimonial dinner
at the Hall of fame was approaching...

992
01:11:19,149 --> 01:11:20,919
even though it was still weeks away.

993
01:11:20,985 --> 01:11:24,124
But at least that news got him away
without getting us in jail...

994
01:11:24,188 --> 01:11:25,991
or getting somebody killed.

995
01:11:26,089 --> 01:11:27,793
And as we headed across country...

996
01:11:27,858 --> 01:11:32,400
Cobb, as usual, was oblivious
to the chaos he left in his wake.

997
01:11:32,731 --> 01:11:35,703
And then this fat ass named Babe Ruth
came into the league...

998
01:11:35,767 --> 01:11:37,804
and near destroyed the game of baseball.

999
01:11:37,869 --> 01:11:40,641
We thought he'd eat
and screw his way out of the league...

1000
01:11:40,706 --> 01:11:42,142
but he hung on for a few years.

1001
01:11:42,208 --> 01:11:43,476
Hung on?

1002
01:11:44,309 --> 01:11:45,946
Come on, Ty.

1003
01:11:46,012 --> 01:11:49,251
The man was the greatest ballplayer,
next to you, of all time.

1004
01:11:49,314 --> 01:11:51,218
I mean, he hit 714 home runs.

1005
01:11:51,283 --> 01:11:54,890
Anybody can hit a home run.
Now, excuse me, I got work to do.

1006
01:11:54,954 --> 01:11:56,289
Sorry, Ty.

1007
01:11:56,489 --> 01:11:59,695
I didn't care that they loved, cheered,
and adored Babe Ruth...

1008
01:11:59,759 --> 01:12:02,331
I did care that they
respected his ball playing.

1009
01:12:02,395 --> 01:12:04,365
They built Yankee Stadium for him...

1010
01:12:04,431 --> 01:12:07,103
with a 297-foot right field line.

1011
01:12:07,167 --> 01:12:10,474
My sister, Florence,
could hit the ball 297 feet.

1012
01:12:10,538 --> 01:12:13,944
Come on, aren't you gonna give Ruth
credit for anything?

1013
01:12:16,109 --> 01:12:18,113
He ran okay for a fat man.

1014
01:12:29,223 --> 01:12:33,064
You know something, Alimony,
I think you're the best friend I ever had.

1015
01:12:33,428 --> 01:12:34,730
You're kidding!

1016
01:12:34,796 --> 01:12:37,903
I swear on the Bible,
I feel I can trust you now.

1017
01:12:41,036 --> 01:12:42,639
And he kept talking.

1018
01:12:42,705 --> 01:12:44,909
The gospel according to Ty Cobb.

1019
01:12:44,974 --> 01:12:47,546
Baseball is a red-blooded sport,
for red-blooded men.

1020
01:12:47,610 --> 01:12:50,449
It's no pink tea,
and mollycoddles had better stay out of it.

1021
01:12:50,513 --> 01:12:54,087
It's a struggle for supremacy,
a survival of the fittest.

1022
01:12:54,183 --> 01:12:57,423
I had to fight all my life to survive.
They were all against me.

1023
01:12:57,487 --> 01:13:00,727
But I beat the bastards
and left them in the ditch.

1024
01:13:00,924 --> 01:13:02,994
The problem with baseball today is that...

1025
01:13:03,059 --> 01:13:07,168
the players are in it for the money
rather than the love and fun of it.

1026
01:13:07,231 --> 01:13:09,134
At the age of 22...

1027
01:13:09,300 --> 01:13:12,272
I sunk some dough into a little beverage
outfit in Georgia...

1028
01:13:12,336 --> 01:13:15,843
dash, turned into Coca-Cola. Period.

1029
01:13:16,340 --> 01:13:18,945
At 24, I sunk some dough...

1030
01:13:19,010 --> 01:13:21,281
in a couple of automobile companies
in Detroit...

1031
01:13:21,346 --> 01:13:25,387
dash, turned into General Motors. Period.

1032
01:13:26,851 --> 01:13:28,889
The money piled up like...

1033
01:13:29,755 --> 01:13:31,090
base hits...

1034
01:13:34,126 --> 01:13:36,129
and it's still piling up.

1035
01:13:37,330 --> 01:13:40,669
A ballplayer loses a step
the older he gets...

1036
01:13:40,732 --> 01:13:43,171
dash... No, semicolon...

1037
01:13:44,203 --> 01:13:46,273
a man of finance gains one.

1038
01:13:46,339 --> 01:13:48,777
Period, double space, new paragraph.

1039
01:13:48,842 --> 01:13:52,683
Chapter 7 will be called
"Me and Napoleon Lajoie. "

1040
01:13:54,213 --> 01:13:56,985
- How you doing, Stump?
- Great, fine.

1041
01:13:57,217 --> 01:13:59,154
- Semicolon is very good.
- Good.

1042
01:14:04,257 --> 01:14:06,528
During the day we worked on his book...

1043
01:14:06,594 --> 01:14:08,263
at night I worked on mine.

1044
01:14:08,328 --> 01:14:10,466
I was drinking like a fish,
smoking too much...

1045
01:14:10,531 --> 01:14:14,405
and by writing two versions,
I was becoming something Cobb was not:

1046
01:14:14,468 --> 01:14:16,039
I was becoming a liar.

1047
01:14:16,104 --> 01:14:17,406
Fabulous stuff.

1048
01:14:17,471 --> 01:14:21,546
- Stumpy, just brilliant. You're a genius.
- Thank you, sir.

1049
01:14:22,443 --> 01:14:24,681
Damn, I love reading about me.

1050
01:14:26,181 --> 01:14:28,452
Hey, what the hell is that out there?

1051
01:14:29,284 --> 01:14:32,457
I'm trying to work in here,
you noisy son of a bitch!

1052
01:14:32,521 --> 01:14:35,627
I'd appreciate a little
goddamn peace and quiet.

1053
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:40,197
Try that on, you noisy sons of bitches!

1054
01:14:40,262 --> 01:14:41,898
I'm paying good money to stay here...

1055
01:14:41,964 --> 01:14:44,402
and these noisy people
are raising all kinds of hell.

1056
01:14:44,467 --> 01:14:45,869
I can't get any work done.

1057
01:14:45,935 --> 01:14:48,640
Stumpy, take care of this for me.

1058
01:14:48,705 --> 01:14:51,744
- It's okay, no problem.
- It's not okay.

1059
01:14:53,009 --> 01:14:55,614
It's okay.
Thought it was a prowler, that's all.

1060
01:14:56,379 --> 01:14:58,349
We're leaving. Nobody's hurt.

1061
01:14:58,415 --> 01:15:00,051
Everything's fine.

1062
01:15:07,258 --> 01:15:09,662
Soon, I knew more about his drugs
than he did.

1063
01:15:09,727 --> 01:15:12,867
Whatever bizarre cocktails of morphine,
or lithium, or insulin...

1064
01:15:12,931 --> 01:15:15,503
I helped inject into his bloodstream
full of bourbon...

1065
01:15:15,567 --> 01:15:17,938
somehow they always revived him.

1066
01:15:25,410 --> 01:15:28,817
Somewhere along the way,
I'd gone from biographer to stenographer...

1067
01:15:28,881 --> 01:15:30,516
to chauffeur to nurse.

1068
01:15:30,583 --> 01:15:32,987
I was the only thing
keeping the bastard alive...

1069
01:15:33,051 --> 01:15:34,855
and I kept hoping he'd die.

1070
01:15:37,190 --> 01:15:39,427
You know something, Stumpy?

1071
01:15:40,460 --> 01:15:43,834
With a friend like you,
I could go on forever.

1072
01:16:24,172 --> 01:16:26,277
You're gonna see some great athletes...

1073
01:16:26,342 --> 01:16:29,881
great men, great warriors
at this Hall of Fame dinner, Stumpy.

1074
01:16:29,945 --> 01:16:32,583
You ain't gonna see no modern,
pansy-ass bullshit.

1075
01:16:32,648 --> 01:16:35,387
No, I've been looking forward to this
for a long time.

1076
01:16:35,451 --> 01:16:38,724
You fucking liar.
You've been hoping I'd die first.

1077
01:16:38,788 --> 01:16:41,627
- You've got me all wrong.
- I got you right.

1078
01:16:42,326 --> 01:16:43,861
But it's all right...

1079
01:16:44,193 --> 01:16:45,829
'cause I need your help.

1080
01:16:49,499 --> 01:16:51,002
See who that is.

1081
01:16:55,606 --> 01:16:58,010
- May I help you?
- Cobb here?

1082
01:16:59,142 --> 01:17:02,015
- May I ask why?
- I'm Mickey Cochrane.

1083
01:17:04,815 --> 01:17:05,883
Come on in.

1084
01:17:05,950 --> 01:17:07,988
Ty, it's Mickey Cochrane.

1085
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:10,823
Where's your goddamn tuxedo?

1086
01:17:10,889 --> 01:17:12,892
- I don't have one.
- I sent you money for it.

1087
01:17:12,957 --> 01:17:15,596
- It didn't arrive.
- Bullshit, you drank it up.

1088
01:17:16,862 --> 01:17:19,801
Can't have you going to the Hall of Fame
looking like that.

1089
01:17:19,865 --> 01:17:22,070
Things have been rough, Ty.

1090
01:17:22,234 --> 01:17:24,338
Don't complain and don't explain.

1091
01:17:24,770 --> 01:17:27,408
Here, please go buy yourself a tuxedo.

1092
01:17:30,076 --> 01:17:31,479
Stores are closed.

1093
01:17:31,544 --> 01:17:35,551
How could you be so good behind the plate
and so bad everywhere else?

1094
01:17:35,615 --> 01:17:37,285
You broke-dick old bastard.

1095
01:17:37,350 --> 01:17:40,189
Do I have to do everything
in this goddamn league?

1096
01:17:44,792 --> 01:17:45,960
Hello, operator.

1097
01:17:46,026 --> 01:17:48,731
Who's got the best men's store
in Cooperstown, New York?

1098
01:17:48,929 --> 01:17:52,336
I tell you what. Get him on the telephone
for me at his house.

1099
01:17:52,900 --> 01:17:55,973
Hello, Jack, this is Ty Cobb. Yes, sir.

1100
01:17:56,670 --> 01:17:59,475
I'll tell you what you can do.
You go down to your store...

1101
01:17:59,540 --> 01:18:03,247
open it up, you sell a tuxedo
to the great Mickey Cochrane.

1102
01:18:03,678 --> 01:18:07,552
And while you're at it,
get him a cummerbund, new shirt, bow tie...

1103
01:18:07,616 --> 01:18:09,987
set of studs, and a set of cufflinks...

1104
01:18:10,051 --> 01:18:13,224
and a bottle of cologne
'cause the son of a bitch stinks.

1105
01:18:13,422 --> 01:18:14,992
I don't know. He might have had one.

1106
01:18:15,057 --> 01:18:16,760
It's a joke.

1107
01:18:17,359 --> 01:18:18,527
What's that?

1108
01:18:19,328 --> 01:18:20,731
Sure do thank you.

1109
01:18:27,837 --> 01:18:30,742
Mickey, you gotta put forth a better effort.

1110
01:18:31,441 --> 01:18:33,244
- Here.
- Thanks, Ty.

1111
01:18:35,578 --> 01:18:38,083
It was a great pleasure meeting you.

1112
01:18:39,683 --> 01:18:42,722
He's lost, Stump. Fastball to the head.

1113
01:18:43,687 --> 01:18:45,290
That poor man is lost.

1114
01:18:46,056 --> 01:18:47,426
You support him?

1115
01:18:47,859 --> 01:18:49,695
And I have for years.

1116
01:18:51,061 --> 01:18:52,899
It's not gonna go in your book though.

1117
01:18:52,964 --> 01:18:55,869
- But why not?
- Because it would embarrass him.

1118
01:18:56,033 --> 01:18:58,638
I don't wanna take that cane tonight.

1119
01:18:59,304 --> 01:19:00,839
You've got to have your cane.

1120
01:19:00,905 --> 01:19:03,477
I don't have to have anything.
You'll help me out.

1121
01:19:03,541 --> 01:19:06,546
In case I wobble, something like that,
you put a hand here...

1122
01:19:06,611 --> 01:19:09,550
you keep me upright, I'm gonna be all right.

1123
01:19:10,482 --> 01:19:11,751
I'll be there.

1124
01:19:16,889 --> 01:19:18,158
How do I look?

1125
01:19:22,395 --> 01:19:25,134
Like the greatest ballplayer of all time.

1126
01:19:29,802 --> 01:19:32,542
The great left-handed pitcher
from the New York Giants...

1127
01:19:32,605 --> 01:19:36,847
who struck out five men in a row
in the 1934 All-Star game:

1128
01:19:36,910 --> 01:19:39,115
Carl Hubbell, ladies and gentlemen.

1129
01:19:39,346 --> 01:19:41,283
Welcome "The Meal Ticket. "

1130
01:19:42,582 --> 01:19:45,321
The great third baseman
from the National League:

1131
01:19:45,385 --> 01:19:48,224
Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor.

1132
01:19:49,890 --> 01:19:51,360
Mr. Double X...

1133
01:19:51,526 --> 01:19:54,031
the great star of
the Philadelphia Athletics:

1134
01:19:54,095 --> 01:19:55,630
Mr. Jimmie Foxx.

1135
01:19:57,198 --> 01:19:59,836
Paul and Lloyd Waner.

1136
01:20:00,134 --> 01:20:02,072
And, ladies and gentlemen...

1137
01:20:02,270 --> 01:20:05,343
the highest lifetime batting average
of all time...

1138
01:20:05,441 --> 01:20:07,778
first man elected to the Hall of fame...

1139
01:20:07,842 --> 01:20:10,415
retired with over 90 batting records...

1140
01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:14,788
the one and only Georgia Peach, Ty Cobb.

1141
01:20:23,359 --> 01:20:24,662
Mr. Cobb?

1142
01:20:26,829 --> 01:20:29,100
- Stump.
- I got you.

1143
01:20:33,103 --> 01:20:35,675
- Mr. Cobb, good to see you again.
- How do you do?

1144
01:20:35,739 --> 01:20:37,709
One more shot, Mr. Cobb.

1145
01:21:05,004 --> 01:21:06,841
Good to see you, Lloyd.

1146
01:21:07,607 --> 01:21:10,178
Sam Crawford, Cobb, long time no see.

1147
01:21:10,242 --> 01:21:12,580
Sam, it's good to see you.
You doing all right?

1148
01:21:12,645 --> 01:21:14,014
I'm still alive.

1149
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,651
We're gonna have a hell of a party
this evening.

1150
01:21:16,715 --> 01:21:18,319
Big parties, Peach.

1151
01:21:19,619 --> 01:21:21,422
How you doing? You're looking good.

1152
01:21:21,487 --> 01:21:23,959
Rogers, I look like hell, you know it.

1153
01:21:24,423 --> 01:21:26,462
Stumpy, I want you to meet
Rogers Hornsby...

1154
01:21:26,527 --> 01:21:29,031
next to me, the greatest hitter of all time.

1155
01:21:29,095 --> 01:21:30,798
- How do you do?
- Next to me.

1156
01:21:31,698 --> 01:21:33,068
We'll tear them up good.

1157
01:21:33,134 --> 01:21:34,603
Nice to see you again.

1158
01:21:34,668 --> 01:21:37,673
Let's get this son of a bitch on the road.

1159
01:21:41,308 --> 01:21:43,613
- Nice to see you again, Ty.
- Good to see you.

1160
01:21:43,678 --> 01:21:46,249
Welcome to Cooperstown,
ladies and gentlemen.

1161
01:21:46,814 --> 01:21:50,955
We are here to acknowledge
the greatest ballplayers of all time.

1162
01:21:51,919 --> 01:21:54,992
But the greatest of all is with us tonight.

1163
01:21:55,456 --> 01:21:58,897
Simply put, the best ballplayer ever:

1164
01:21:59,761 --> 01:22:01,565
Tyrus Raymond Cobb.

1165
01:22:13,209 --> 01:22:18,085
We've gathered from the archives
some special film on Mr. Cobb.

1166
01:22:18,748 --> 01:22:19,983
Lights, please.

1167
01:22:20,049 --> 01:22:23,021
This 1916 portrait shows us Ty Cobb...

1168
01:22:23,087 --> 01:22:26,626
in his Detroit Tigers uniform.
The Georgia Peach.

1169
01:22:26,857 --> 01:22:30,330
Note the smug expression
and the haunting set of eyes.

1170
01:22:30,527 --> 01:22:35,169
These disturbing eyes can be
seen in the earliest photo
ever taken of young Ty.

1171
01:22:35,833 --> 01:22:38,605
Turn the clock back
to the beginning of the century.

1172
01:22:38,669 --> 01:22:42,209
At that time, professional baseball
was a casual game.

1173
01:22:42,340 --> 01:22:44,577
Ballplayers were often clowns...

1174
01:22:44,642 --> 01:22:47,915
but young Ty Cobb would have none of that.

1175
01:22:47,979 --> 01:22:50,416
He turned the game into war...

1176
01:22:50,616 --> 01:22:54,290
and in the process,
invented the modern game as we know it.

1177
01:22:54,986 --> 01:22:58,760
The aggressive, attacking game
was virtually Cobb's invention.

1178
01:22:58,823 --> 01:23:01,997
Here, we see him running over
a first sacker on a drag bunt...

1179
01:23:02,061 --> 01:23:03,463
a play he perfected.

1180
01:23:03,528 --> 01:23:06,201
That's him. He'd take on the whole team.

1181
01:23:06,265 --> 01:23:09,037
Jimmie, that's the way we used to play ball.

1182
01:23:09,535 --> 01:23:12,308
You don't find these children
playing ball like that today.

1183
01:23:12,372 --> 01:23:15,411
Here, we see Cobb
with one of his five children.

1184
01:23:15,475 --> 01:23:18,080
That's Shirley. You remember Shirley?

1185
01:23:18,278 --> 01:23:20,615
She's a big girl now.

1186
01:23:21,514 --> 01:23:25,589
I love that house, Stump.
Stump, we gotta go see that house.

1187
01:23:25,919 --> 01:23:29,793
And here, he shows his son
his curious hands-apart grip.

1188
01:23:29,890 --> 01:23:33,097
Though he was unable
to teach his flaming, competitive heart.

1189
01:23:33,227 --> 01:23:35,064
Here, the pitcher makes the mistake...

1190
01:23:35,129 --> 01:23:39,270
- Stumpy, what in the hell is that?
- Why? It's a great film.

1191
01:23:39,333 --> 01:23:41,403
Look, there he goes, watch this!

1192
01:23:41,703 --> 01:23:42,771
It's great!

1193
01:23:42,837 --> 01:23:45,174
...and 54 times in his whole career.

1194
01:23:45,440 --> 01:23:48,379
No base runner has ever approached
these records.

1195
01:23:48,710 --> 01:23:50,981
- Stealing home there.
- Yeah, I saw that-

1196
01:23:51,046 --> 01:23:53,417
The first celebrity athlete
in American history.

1197
01:23:53,482 --> 01:23:55,052
Movie stars and presidents...

1198
01:23:55,117 --> 01:23:58,156
- What the hell is that?
- There you are with your buddy, Babe.

1199
01:23:58,220 --> 01:24:02,228
Here, Cobb poses with his great archrival,
the legendary Babe Ruth.

1200
01:24:02,358 --> 01:24:03,727
You and the Babe.

1201
01:24:24,015 --> 01:24:27,488
However, Cobb's public posturing
as a family man...

1202
01:24:27,551 --> 01:24:29,622
was just that, posturing.

1203
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:34,195
Here, he discovers that his wife has hidden
some of his precious liquor...

1204
01:24:34,258 --> 01:24:36,529
and she pays the price.

1205
01:24:39,064 --> 01:24:42,103
The allegations of wife-beating were legion.

1206
01:24:42,167 --> 01:24:45,039
Her attempts to divorce Cobb were met
with more beatings...

1207
01:24:45,103 --> 01:24:47,340
until, after years of brutal marriage...

1208
01:24:47,405 --> 01:24:51,012
she was granted divorce
due to extreme mental cruelty.

1209
01:24:54,713 --> 01:24:56,917
With Cobb's vast fortunes and influence...

1210
01:24:56,983 --> 01:25:01,191
he was able to keep this private part
of his brutal nature completely quiet...

1211
01:25:01,254 --> 01:25:05,463
building, instead, a heroic public image
as a fierce warrior.

1212
01:25:11,030 --> 01:25:13,201
Get your ass on up here,
you half-assed nigger!

1213
01:25:13,267 --> 01:25:15,237
Get up here! Come on!

1214
01:25:15,502 --> 01:25:19,443
In a famous incident in 1912,
Cobb attacked a heckler...

1215
01:25:19,506 --> 01:25:21,677
who turned out to have no hands.

1216
01:25:21,876 --> 01:25:24,715
He was briefly suspended for the incident.

1217
01:25:27,382 --> 01:25:30,121
In a shocking development in 1926...

1218
01:25:30,184 --> 01:25:33,224
Cobb and Tris Speaker
were accused of fixing games...

1219
01:25:33,288 --> 01:25:35,325
by pitcher Dutch Leonard.

1220
01:25:36,490 --> 01:25:37,827
Is that the fix?

1221
01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:42,567
Credence to these charges was given
by Cobb's notorious friendship...

1222
01:25:42,631 --> 01:25:45,236
with numerous unsavory gamblers.

1223
01:25:45,367 --> 01:25:48,673
And even though Judge Landis
curiously acquitted Cobb...

1224
01:25:48,737 --> 01:25:51,476
questions still remained about his guilt.

1225
01:25:51,540 --> 01:25:54,980
Cobb later told friends
that he had enough damaging information...

1226
01:25:55,044 --> 01:25:57,382
on other players involved in fixes...

1227
01:25:57,447 --> 01:26:00,753
that Landis acquitted Cobb
in order to keep him quiet.

1228
01:26:02,952 --> 01:26:06,459
Cobb and his friends were well known
for booze and sex parties...

1229
01:26:06,522 --> 01:26:08,526
they had in the off-season.

1230
01:26:08,591 --> 01:26:10,027
Parties called "smokers"...

1231
01:26:10,093 --> 01:26:12,230
which took place
in various hunting cabins...

1232
01:26:12,295 --> 01:26:13,598
they filled with hookers...

1233
01:26:13,664 --> 01:26:16,669
many of whom
were his guests at the ballpark.

1234
01:26:44,029 --> 01:26:46,434
And in one
of the most disturbing incidents...

1235
01:26:46,499 --> 01:26:49,504
Cobb chased a man he said
had accosted him...

1236
01:26:49,568 --> 01:26:53,008
and pistol-whipped him to death,
leaving him to die in an alley.

1237
01:26:53,072 --> 01:26:55,410
Though Cobb bragged about this
among friends...

1238
01:26:55,475 --> 01:26:58,047
the incident was hushed up and forgotten.

1239
01:27:00,380 --> 01:27:03,987
Stumpy, he tried to rob me.
He tried to take the money out of my pocket.

1240
01:27:04,050 --> 01:27:06,522
What? It's just you
in your Philadelphia uniform.

1241
01:27:09,856 --> 01:27:11,359
Playing for Mr. Mack now.

1242
01:27:12,559 --> 01:27:15,899
Near the end of his career,
Cobb joined the Philadelphia Athletics...

1243
01:27:15,963 --> 01:27:17,365
and at the age of 41...

1244
01:27:17,431 --> 01:27:19,201
What do you see now?

1245
01:27:19,967 --> 01:27:22,505
You in your Philadelphia uniform.
You look good.

1246
01:27:22,670 --> 01:27:26,077
"If a man can't hit better than that,
he ought to quit. "

1247
01:27:26,708 --> 01:27:29,547
Whether hitting a home run,
as shown here...

1248
01:27:29,844 --> 01:27:32,249
See, he can hit home runs
with the best of them.

1249
01:27:32,313 --> 01:27:34,886
...to all fields or running the bases...

1250
01:27:34,950 --> 01:27:37,087
I hit them home runs if I had to.

1251
01:27:37,586 --> 01:27:41,961
Ty Cobb dominated the game
as no man ever had.

1252
01:27:42,358 --> 01:27:46,867
Yes, ladies and gentlemen,
what a ballplayer!

1253
01:27:49,999 --> 01:27:52,938
Let's all stand up for the Peach.
You're the best.

1254
01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:20,435
- You sure you're up for this?
-203, I used to hunt and fish...

1255
01:28:20,498 --> 01:28:24,940
with Rogers Hornsby all over north Georgia,
lower Alabama, everywhere he'd think of.

1256
01:28:25,403 --> 01:28:27,508
I appreciate loyalty in a friend.

1257
01:28:29,140 --> 01:28:32,747
- You sure you're up for this?
- I've never been readier in my life!

1258
01:28:34,780 --> 01:28:36,783
- Rogers!
- You ain't coming in here.

1259
01:28:36,848 --> 01:28:39,687
- It's me and Stump!
- You bastard, you ain't coming in.

1260
01:28:39,752 --> 01:28:41,588
- Who's in there?
- Me, Mickey, some broads.

1261
01:28:41,654 --> 01:28:43,624
Let me talk to Mickey. Let me see Mickey.

1262
01:28:43,689 --> 01:28:46,962
How are you doing, Mick?
You look good in that tuxedo.

1263
01:28:47,026 --> 01:28:50,500
I can't let you in. This is Rogers' party.
I'm just an invited guest.

1264
01:28:50,563 --> 01:28:53,201
God damn it, let me in! Wait a minute!

1265
01:28:54,334 --> 01:28:56,171
Open the goddamn door!

1266
01:28:57,671 --> 01:29:00,910
Let me in. Open up the goddamn door!

1267
01:29:00,974 --> 01:29:04,881
- It's okay, let's just
go back to the motel.
- To hell with you!

1268
01:29:05,412 --> 01:29:09,287
I invented the goddamn game of baseball!
Open the door!

1269
01:29:13,354 --> 01:29:15,291
You sons of bitches!

1270
01:29:22,163 --> 01:29:25,203
You sons of bitches!
I fought for players' rights...

1271
01:29:25,267 --> 01:29:28,539
when you motherfuckers were crawling
on your hands and knees...

1272
01:29:28,603 --> 01:29:30,774
begging the master for a job!

1273
01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:34,847
Begging master for breadcrumbs
and you can't hear me now!

1274
01:29:37,513 --> 01:29:39,650
- Let's go home.
- Let me in there!

1275
01:29:39,748 --> 01:29:42,121
A ballplayer can make big money...

1276
01:29:42,185 --> 01:29:44,722
but you motherfuckers are too stupid!

1277
01:29:45,088 --> 01:29:48,027
You're all too stupid!
Open the goddamn door!

1278
01:29:51,562 --> 01:29:53,666
- You're okay?
- Take me back to the Hall!

1279
01:29:53,730 --> 01:29:56,034
- You sure?
- You know where the Hall is?

1280
01:29:56,132 --> 01:29:57,134
Sure.

1281
01:29:59,803 --> 01:30:01,106
This way.

1282
01:30:02,472 --> 01:30:05,478
- I appreciate your coming.
- For Mr. Cobb, no problem.

1283
01:30:33,940 --> 01:30:37,246
Stumpy, what did you see
on that film there tonight?

1284
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:43,919
- I saw Ty Cobb playing baseball.
- Is that all?

1285
01:30:45,084 --> 01:30:46,085
Is that all?

1286
01:30:49,189 --> 01:30:50,591
You were the best.

1287
01:30:53,227 --> 01:30:55,497
Save the romance for the book.

1288
01:30:57,632 --> 01:30:59,535
Carry me home to Georgia.

1289
01:31:21,890 --> 01:31:24,595
The book, like Cobb, was almost Finished.

1290
01:31:24,994 --> 01:31:27,198
But he was dying slower than I was writing.

1291
01:31:27,263 --> 01:31:31,605
And like everything else, he viewed it
as a competition he was not going to lose.

1292
01:31:32,568 --> 01:31:35,308
To me, we weren't riding to Georgia
in a limo...

1293
01:31:35,705 --> 01:31:37,508
we were riding in a hearse.

1294
01:31:40,076 --> 01:31:43,416
"One of my first clear-cut memories
is of a buggy...

1295
01:31:43,914 --> 01:31:48,623
"bumping along a red clay road between
Commerce and Carnesville, Georgia...

1296
01:31:48,919 --> 01:31:52,125
"with my legs dangling over the tailgate.

1297
01:31:52,222 --> 01:31:56,864
"I was busy winding yarn
around a small core ball.

1298
01:31:57,394 --> 01:31:59,165
"It was slow work.

1299
01:31:59,831 --> 01:32:03,337
"And the new kid in town
who owned a hittable ball...

1300
01:32:03,702 --> 01:32:07,910
"could overcome social obstacles faster
than the boy who didn't. "

1301
01:32:10,309 --> 01:32:13,013
- That's damn good.
- I put that in there.

1302
01:32:14,679 --> 01:32:16,182
Long time ago, Stumpy.

1303
01:32:19,351 --> 01:32:23,092
- Anything you want me to change?
- No, I wouldn't change a word.

1304
01:32:24,390 --> 01:32:27,362
It's the greatest biography
ever written, Stump.

1305
01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:29,463
The greatest.

1306
01:32:43,677 --> 01:32:47,251
James, pull over here to the right.
Look here, Stump.

1307
01:32:47,881 --> 01:32:49,684
Right up there, James.

1308
01:33:01,696 --> 01:33:05,603
We're here. The fucking sign needs paint.

1309
01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:22,289
My little girl lives right
down this way here.
James, go right down this street.

1310
01:33:23,986 --> 01:33:25,957
Sure this was the street?

1311
01:33:26,188 --> 01:33:28,459
Down there about a block, James.

1312
01:33:33,195 --> 01:33:35,234
The houses all look alike.

1313
01:33:37,401 --> 01:33:42,043
- When was the last time you saw her?
- About 15 years ago. She understands me.

1314
01:33:43,206 --> 01:33:46,446
Right there. There it is, right there.

1315
01:33:47,210 --> 01:33:49,382
No, wait. Damn it!

1316
01:33:55,954 --> 01:33:57,156
Maybe she moved.

1317
01:33:57,221 --> 01:34:00,261
No, she didn't move.
It's that one right there, James.

1318
01:34:00,591 --> 01:34:04,165
Right there, number 150,
over here on the right.

1319
01:34:11,670 --> 01:34:13,306
There's somebody in the window.

1320
01:34:18,344 --> 01:34:19,512
Is that her?

1321
01:34:30,090 --> 01:34:32,795
Maybe she didn't recognize you.
Just wait here.

1322
01:35:23,780 --> 01:35:25,115
You can go.

1323
01:35:27,116 --> 01:35:30,457
- Well?
- No, it wasn't her. It's...

1324
01:35:31,355 --> 01:35:32,790
Your daughter moved.

1325
01:35:32,856 --> 01:35:34,492
She used to live there-

1326
01:35:34,558 --> 01:35:37,563
You cocksucking liar.
My daughter don't want to see me...

1327
01:35:37,627 --> 01:35:39,365
and you're lying about it.

1328
01:35:40,364 --> 01:35:44,071
Of course I'm lying about it.
That's what I'm paid to do, isn't it?

1329
01:35:44,435 --> 01:35:45,971
Lie about the great Ty Cobb?

1330
01:35:46,037 --> 01:35:48,141
You didn't like the job,
why didn't you quit?

1331
01:35:48,205 --> 01:35:49,908
Who else is going to take care of you?

1332
01:35:49,974 --> 01:35:53,281
Don't give me the sob-sister routine. Jesus!

1333
01:35:53,511 --> 01:35:57,652
I listen to your bullshit,
I interpret, I find words...

1334
01:35:57,716 --> 01:36:02,357
I give shape, I give life to your bullshit,
and you give me nothing!

1335
01:36:03,589 --> 01:36:04,924
Nothing...

1336
01:36:05,524 --> 01:36:06,525
but grief!

1337
01:36:11,464 --> 01:36:15,940
You have never been this close to greatness
in your short life.

1338
01:36:16,936 --> 01:36:18,305
And you love it.

1339
01:36:20,774 --> 01:36:22,042
Stop the car.

1340
01:36:22,108 --> 01:36:23,978
Stop the car! Now!

1341
01:36:25,512 --> 01:36:27,148
Stop the car, James.

1342
01:36:29,182 --> 01:36:32,155
Stumpy, you are acting
like a 6-year-old child.

1343
01:36:32,653 --> 01:36:34,355
I'll be a striped-ass ape.

1344
01:36:34,421 --> 01:36:36,191
Where are you going?

1345
01:36:38,926 --> 01:36:40,562
Wait here, James.

1346
01:36:42,997 --> 01:36:46,471
- Get back in the car.
- Just go on without me.

1347
01:36:47,435 --> 01:36:50,675
- Get back in the damn car-
- Go on without me, I don't need you.

1348
01:36:51,205 --> 01:36:54,479
I'd run you down if I was
10, 15, 20 years younger.

1349
01:36:54,876 --> 01:36:57,514
- Come here.
- I wish you'd die.

1350
01:36:57,579 --> 01:36:59,149
I will, Stumpy.

1351
01:37:00,349 --> 01:37:02,820
- And go to hell.
- I'll do that, too.

1352
01:37:03,285 --> 01:37:05,757
Look how convenient you've made it.

1353
01:37:06,122 --> 01:37:09,696
Of course it was your daughter.
She doesn't want anything to do with you.

1354
01:37:09,759 --> 01:37:13,466
- I forgive her.
- You forgive her? That's rich!

1355
01:37:13,530 --> 01:37:17,471
We all ought to forgive more.
You ought to try it. You're too damn angry.

1356
01:37:17,534 --> 01:37:21,541
Is it the divorce?
You gotta let all that go, Stump.

1357
01:37:21,604 --> 01:37:23,474
I love her, I don't want a divorce!

1358
01:37:23,540 --> 01:37:26,680
Of course you do. You're so used
to accommodating other people...

1359
01:37:26,743 --> 01:37:29,382
you don't know
what the hell you want anymore.

1360
01:37:29,480 --> 01:37:31,283
I don't accommodate anybody.

1361
01:37:33,084 --> 01:37:34,820
No, you sure don't.

1362
01:37:36,187 --> 01:37:38,090
And you have no friends.

1363
01:37:38,222 --> 01:37:41,729
Do you? Who the hell are they,
those drunken hacks you hang out with?

1364
01:37:41,793 --> 01:37:44,097
They think they'll write
the great American novel...

1365
01:37:44,162 --> 01:37:46,467
but all they're really gonna do
is piss and moan...

1366
01:37:46,531 --> 01:37:49,603
and write lousy leads
about high school football games.

1367
01:37:49,668 --> 01:37:52,373
What about that little brunette
in the courtyard?

1368
01:37:52,437 --> 01:37:55,509
Is she your friend?
I understand she fucks everybody.

1369
01:37:55,574 --> 01:37:57,946
She must be everybody's goddamn friend.

1370
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:02,316
You're something.

1371
01:38:05,451 --> 01:38:07,221
I'm glad we're here.

1372
01:38:07,887 --> 01:38:10,225
I was gonna bring you here anyway.

1373
01:38:11,858 --> 01:38:14,495
And which great Cobb of Georgia
would that be?

1374
01:38:14,761 --> 01:38:17,766
Me. Come on, I'll show you something.

1375
01:38:27,842 --> 01:38:31,749
When I die, my mother and father
will be brought here...

1376
01:38:32,747 --> 01:38:34,450
and in time...

1377
01:38:34,515 --> 01:38:36,987
my dear sister, Florence,
will join us as well.

1378
01:38:37,051 --> 01:38:39,189
The family will be together again.

1379
01:38:40,355 --> 01:38:42,192
- Under one roof?
- Yeah.

1380
01:38:43,324 --> 01:38:46,631
That's romantic. You want that in the book?

1381
01:38:47,829 --> 01:38:50,267
I mean, that Ty Cobb
brings the family together...

1382
01:38:50,331 --> 01:38:52,169
to enter the gates of heaven whole!

1383
01:38:52,635 --> 01:38:55,941
They're all gonna be here.
Yourself, your sister...

1384
01:38:56,004 --> 01:38:59,378
your grandfather who was killed
at the fields of Fredericksburg...

1385
01:38:59,442 --> 01:39:00,811
your father, the great man...

1386
01:39:00,877 --> 01:39:03,314
then your mother,
who happened to kill your father.

1387
01:39:03,379 --> 01:39:06,753
- Then you've got your kids-
- My mother didn't kill my father.

1388
01:39:08,585 --> 01:39:11,891
- What are you talking about?
- My father told my mother...

1389
01:39:13,957 --> 01:39:16,162
he was leaving town for the weekend.

1390
01:39:16,927 --> 01:39:21,135
But he came back to the edge of the woods,
where he tied up his horse...

1391
01:39:25,770 --> 01:39:30,646
because my father thought
my mother was being unfaithful to him.

1392
01:39:31,509 --> 01:39:35,383
He was going to catch my mother
with another man.

1393
01:39:53,398 --> 01:39:57,373
She had been married 22 years
by the time she was 34...

1394
01:39:58,037 --> 01:40:01,444
and that's how old she was
the night he came back.

1395
01:40:17,591 --> 01:40:22,300
And I stood by my mother when
she was tried for murder a few months later.

1396
01:40:24,398 --> 01:40:28,139
I said she was noble and true...

1397
01:40:29,637 --> 01:40:32,075
and loved my father completely.

1398
01:40:33,041 --> 01:40:36,113
The whole thing was an accident...

1399
01:40:38,047 --> 01:40:42,622
and she was acquitted,
as she should have been...

1400
01:40:43,451 --> 01:40:47,026
because my mother did not kill my father.

1401
01:40:51,327 --> 01:40:53,831
My mother's lover...

1402
01:40:54,063 --> 01:40:55,633
killed my father.

1403
01:41:26,231 --> 01:41:30,639
The last thing my father saw
was the face of the man fucking his wife.

1404
01:41:31,736 --> 01:41:33,774
Is that what you wanted to know?

1405
01:41:36,441 --> 01:41:39,380
The only other people
who know about it are dead.

1406
01:41:39,645 --> 01:41:44,187
You ain't going to put that in the book,
because you're the only friend I have left.

1407
01:41:44,817 --> 01:41:47,122
You're the only man I can trust.

1408
01:41:59,899 --> 01:42:01,902
I don't want to be your friend.

1409
01:42:02,436 --> 01:42:04,373
I don't feel sorry for you.

1410
01:42:05,738 --> 01:42:08,679
Your mother's lover
blew your father's head off, I don't care.

1411
01:42:08,742 --> 01:42:11,815
You were a prick before it happened,
a prick after it happened...

1412
01:42:11,879 --> 01:42:14,250
you've been a prick ever since.

1413
01:42:14,314 --> 01:42:18,156
- And you are a prick now.
- Public relations are overrated, Stumpy.

1414
01:42:18,552 --> 01:42:19,821
What are you talking about?

1415
01:42:19,887 --> 01:42:22,860
- You need a drink. Come on in here.
- Fuck your drink.

1416
01:42:22,958 --> 01:42:24,660
You're too damn angry.

1417
01:42:24,826 --> 01:42:26,763
You need to let all that go.

1418
01:42:26,828 --> 01:42:29,733
I'm going to tell the world
the truth about you, Cobb.

1419
01:42:29,798 --> 01:42:33,272
I'm going to tell them that you hate women,
hate Jews, hate niggers.

1420
01:42:33,335 --> 01:42:35,272
Shouldn't use the word "nigger. "

1421
01:42:35,437 --> 01:42:37,274
It's racist and demeaning.

1422
01:42:37,639 --> 01:42:39,844
I don't hate women. I'm not good with them.

1423
01:42:39,909 --> 01:42:43,181
That puts me in the same boat
with you and every other man I know.

1424
01:42:43,245 --> 01:42:44,915
You treat people like dirt.

1425
01:42:44,981 --> 01:42:48,755
The children of America need heroes.

1426
01:42:49,752 --> 01:42:51,255
You know that.

1427
01:42:51,821 --> 01:42:52,923
Here.

1428
01:42:54,057 --> 01:42:55,192
Come on.

1429
01:43:02,933 --> 01:43:04,201
Attaboy.

1430
01:43:06,670 --> 01:43:08,707
All right, there we go.

1431
01:43:10,007 --> 01:43:13,748
You sit right there for just one minute.

1432
01:43:23,021 --> 01:43:26,094
You're an educated man, Stumpy.
Tell me what you think.

1433
01:43:27,526 --> 01:43:30,331
Either my father
was inadequate for my mother...

1434
01:43:31,797 --> 01:43:35,804
not the man I thought he was,
not a great man, not even a good man...

1435
01:43:37,437 --> 01:43:39,273
or else my mother was trash...

1436
01:43:40,606 --> 01:43:42,176
a common whore.

1437
01:43:43,509 --> 01:43:45,379
It's that simple, isn't it?

1438
01:43:49,315 --> 01:43:52,020
As a boy,
I stood in court next to that woman...

1439
01:43:52,452 --> 01:43:54,990
because suddenly
I was the man of the house.

1440
01:43:56,222 --> 01:44:00,397
And as I stood steadfastly at her side
and heard the jury say "not guilty"...

1441
01:44:00,461 --> 01:44:04,770
I knew that woman had been
with another man the night of that killing.

1442
01:44:11,406 --> 01:44:15,045
A man must defend his mother at all times.

1443
01:44:16,778 --> 01:44:18,481
Isn't that right, Al?

1444
01:44:20,816 --> 01:44:23,620
- Am I a fool?
- No.

1445
01:44:25,053 --> 01:44:27,525
A man must defend his mother at all times.

1446
01:44:27,590 --> 01:44:29,192
That's what I thought.

1447
01:44:39,035 --> 01:44:40,772
- Al Stump?
- In here.

1448
01:44:42,972 --> 01:44:45,644
- Are you Ty Cobb?
- You're goddamn right.

1449
01:44:45,908 --> 01:44:47,379
Well, goddamn!

1450
01:44:49,679 --> 01:44:51,249
Mr. Al Stump?

1451
01:44:51,315 --> 01:44:53,085
Goddamn right.

1452
01:44:53,250 --> 01:44:55,989
Man, I've been chasing you
all over the country.

1453
01:44:56,687 --> 01:44:58,957
I'm here to serve you papers.

1454
01:45:01,224 --> 01:45:04,265
- What kind of papers?
- It's the divorce, Stumpy.

1455
01:45:04,329 --> 01:45:07,568
- I know this routine.
- You're being sued for divorce, sir.

1456
01:45:09,367 --> 01:45:11,537
Hold it. My wife and I are still talking.

1457
01:45:11,602 --> 01:45:14,240
Yeah, and what she's saying is, "Fuck you. "

1458
01:45:17,509 --> 01:45:20,448
Fuck me. Fuck her.

1459
01:45:24,316 --> 01:45:25,618
Fuck him.

1460
01:45:25,784 --> 01:45:28,356
Wait a minute here, Stumpy.

1461
01:45:31,590 --> 01:45:33,828
- Look out now.
- No sudden moves.

1462
01:45:34,594 --> 01:45:36,564
You ain't serving me no papers.

1463
01:45:36,996 --> 01:45:38,866
I'm just doing a job.

1464
01:45:39,632 --> 01:45:41,268
That's not a toy, Al.

1465
01:45:46,472 --> 01:45:48,009
I love my wife.

1466
01:45:48,508 --> 01:45:51,146
We all loved our wives.
That's not the point, Stumpy.

1467
01:45:51,211 --> 01:45:52,948
Sure, you'll find somebody else.

1468
01:45:53,013 --> 01:45:56,153
There's a million women out there.
Now give me that gun.

1469
01:45:56,317 --> 01:45:59,022
I am not going to accommodate this man!

1470
01:46:00,388 --> 01:46:03,160
You're all mixed up, Al.
You'd better let me have that.

1471
01:46:03,257 --> 01:46:07,666
No, you are right. I've been accommodating
people my whole life and it stops here.

1472
01:46:08,863 --> 01:46:11,067
You've killed a man. I'll kill a man.

1473
01:46:11,132 --> 01:46:12,268
I'm begging you.

1474
01:46:12,334 --> 01:46:15,473
I got a little baby girl at home,
please don't shoot me.

1475
01:46:15,803 --> 01:46:18,109
Don't give me that sob-sister stuff.

1476
01:46:18,573 --> 01:46:21,612
Al, you'd better let me have that pistol.

1477
01:46:22,211 --> 01:46:23,881
No.

1478
01:46:25,080 --> 01:46:27,217
Life's too short to be diplomatic.

1479
01:46:27,350 --> 01:46:30,088
A man's friends don't care
what he says or does.

1480
01:46:30,253 --> 01:46:31,922
You're my friend, Ty.

1481
01:46:32,122 --> 01:46:33,824
- You're my friend.
- Al, no.

1482
01:46:33,889 --> 01:46:36,127
- You're my friend, Ty.
- Al, no.

1483
01:46:36,359 --> 01:46:39,198
Shit. You want a divorce?

1484
01:46:39,262 --> 01:46:41,199
Here's your goddamn divorce.

1485
01:46:48,372 --> 01:46:49,741
He's crazy.

1486
01:46:53,244 --> 01:46:55,281
No wonder she's divorcing him.

1487
01:46:55,345 --> 01:46:56,716
He's crazy!

1488
01:46:57,314 --> 01:46:58,850
You're served, pal.

1489
01:47:16,367 --> 01:47:19,575
- I almost killed a man.
- A little drunken excess.

1490
01:47:19,938 --> 01:47:21,541
It's already forgotten.

1491
01:47:22,241 --> 01:47:23,810
I saw nothing.

1492
01:47:24,610 --> 01:47:26,113
Nothing happened.

1493
01:47:26,712 --> 01:47:28,315
Like hell it didn't.

1494
01:47:28,748 --> 01:47:30,383
Al, listen to me.

1495
01:47:30,750 --> 01:47:34,390
If I were to write a biography
of the greatest sportswriter of our time...

1496
01:47:34,454 --> 01:47:37,526
I speak now, of course,
of the great Al Stump...

1497
01:47:38,192 --> 01:47:40,729
would I include
what happened here tonight?

1498
01:47:40,794 --> 01:47:42,364
Attorneys are pigs.

1499
01:47:42,429 --> 01:47:44,867
Divorce attorneys are lower than pigs.

1500
01:47:44,932 --> 01:47:48,071
What happened tonight was private.
An intimacy.

1501
01:47:48,468 --> 01:47:51,341
Your business. Our business.
Nobody else's.

1502
01:47:51,405 --> 01:47:54,445
It does not belong
in a book about greatness.

1503
01:47:54,809 --> 01:47:56,913
Nobody's going to write my biography.

1504
01:47:56,978 --> 01:48:00,651
And when that little brunette
in that courtyard brushed against you...

1505
01:48:00,715 --> 01:48:03,454
I know what happened:
the warm summer breeze...

1506
01:48:03,518 --> 01:48:07,158
the smell of jasmine,
black hair against a white blouse.

1507
01:48:08,490 --> 01:48:10,125
You came to life again.

1508
01:48:11,160 --> 01:48:12,896
Your dick got hard.

1509
01:48:13,795 --> 01:48:17,269
You saw that girl naked the first time,
it was more than you could bear.

1510
01:48:17,333 --> 01:48:18,903
That's all right, Al.

1511
01:48:18,968 --> 01:48:21,540
That brunette ain't going
in the book, either.

1512
01:48:23,205 --> 01:48:24,474
And now the booze.

1513
01:48:24,541 --> 01:48:26,544
Say Ty Cobb had a drinking problem.

1514
01:48:26,609 --> 01:48:30,216
You can booze me under the table,
right now, no problem...

1515
01:48:30,280 --> 01:48:32,817
ain't nobody's goddamn business, either.

1516
01:48:32,883 --> 01:48:36,724
- Okay. I get it-
- Ain't going in our book about greatness.

1517
01:48:37,087 --> 01:48:39,257
Then lay down there and go to sleep.

1518
01:48:39,322 --> 01:48:40,925
You look pathetic.

1519
01:48:41,425 --> 01:48:43,729
Come on. Here. Lay down there.

1520
01:48:44,061 --> 01:48:45,697
All right, here we go.

1521
01:48:48,032 --> 01:48:51,505
- Well, she's not everybody's friend.
- Yes, sir.

1522
01:48:55,273 --> 01:48:57,143
You're my friend, Ty.

1523
01:49:04,449 --> 01:49:05,952
You're my friend.

1524
01:51:28,635 --> 01:51:31,308
You don't have a point of view, Stumpy.

1525
01:51:32,005 --> 01:51:33,975
You're not worth killing.

1526
01:52:03,706 --> 01:52:04,774
No.

1527
01:52:06,175 --> 01:52:07,444
This can't be.

1528
01:52:08,877 --> 01:52:10,181
Absolutely not.

1529
01:52:19,423 --> 01:52:20,424
Stumpy!

1530
01:52:36,941 --> 01:52:39,646
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.

1531
01:52:39,710 --> 01:52:43,185
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.

1532
01:52:43,281 --> 01:52:45,184
Give us this day our daily bread.

1533
01:52:45,250 --> 01:52:48,824
And forgive our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass...

1534
01:52:54,560 --> 01:52:55,795
Fuck it.

1535
01:53:08,107 --> 01:53:11,012
This is what it feels like.

1536
01:53:11,243 --> 01:53:14,250
This is what it looks like.

1537
01:53:16,150 --> 01:53:17,619
This is what it is.

1538
01:53:41,643 --> 01:53:44,715
Will you get the Emory Hospital
for me, please?

1539
01:54:24,455 --> 01:54:25,456
Peach?

1540
01:54:27,391 --> 01:54:29,261
Fuck. Where'd he fall?

1541
01:54:40,639 --> 01:54:41,640
_y_

1542
01:54:49,314 --> 01:54:53,356
Dear Alimony, you lying son of a bitch,
I'm checking myself into the hospital.

1543
01:54:53,419 --> 01:54:56,291
I think the end is near. Your pal, Ty.

1544
01:55:11,505 --> 01:55:13,709
Excuse me, I'm here to see...

1545
01:55:15,442 --> 01:55:17,512
You call this a hospital?

1546
01:55:18,112 --> 01:55:19,748
Do you know who I am?

1547
01:55:19,814 --> 01:55:22,318
- Him.
- Be careful. He's got a gun.

1548
01:55:22,382 --> 01:55:24,153
Yeah, I know. Thanks.

1549
01:55:24,351 --> 01:55:25,721
Please stay back.

1550
01:55:26,954 --> 01:55:29,459
Sir, please. He doesn't want any visitors.
Sir!

1551
01:55:30,891 --> 01:55:32,896
Hell, Stumpy, come on in here!

1552
01:55:33,028 --> 01:55:36,434
You won't believe the shit
they call food here. You get any sleep?

1553
01:55:38,266 --> 01:55:40,804
I had a hell of a read
last night, young man.

1554
01:55:40,869 --> 01:55:42,606
Sir, I need to take some more blood.

1555
01:55:42,671 --> 01:55:45,008
Bring a bucket here.
I'll cough up a few pints.

1556
01:55:45,073 --> 01:55:46,109
I have to do it this way.

1557
01:55:46,175 --> 01:55:48,646
- You won't hurt me, will you?
- No, sir.

1558
01:55:50,779 --> 01:55:54,687
Jameson, I understand Fisher Body
went to $7.25. Buy me 1,OOO shares.

1559
01:55:54,751 --> 01:55:56,955
- You keep your eyes on the Studebaker.
- Yes, sir.

1560
01:55:57,020 --> 01:55:58,656
There's a nice piece of ass here.

1561
01:55:58,722 --> 01:56:00,992
You come back later
and climb up on the big fella?

1562
01:56:01,057 --> 01:56:03,027
That's against regulations, sir.

1563
01:56:03,092 --> 01:56:04,128
You read the book.

1564
01:56:04,194 --> 01:56:06,665
God damn it, I thought I could trust you.

1565
01:56:07,097 --> 01:56:09,468
I used to read people better than that.

1566
01:56:09,834 --> 01:56:10,936
The book is the truth.

1567
01:56:11,001 --> 01:56:14,107
Truth is a whore, just like you are,
and just like my mother was.

1568
01:56:14,171 --> 01:56:15,874
A Mr. Barton is here to see you.

1569
01:56:15,939 --> 01:56:18,278
He says he's the chairman
of the board of Coca Cola.

1570
01:56:18,343 --> 01:56:20,914
Tell him to have a Pepsi. I don't have time.

1571
01:56:22,547 --> 01:56:26,388
- I need to take your blood pressure.
- It's high. What else do you want to know?

1572
01:56:26,450 --> 01:56:27,821
I have to do it.

1573
01:56:28,319 --> 01:56:29,622
Go right ahead.

1574
01:56:30,655 --> 01:56:34,095
Mr. Cobb, we cannot allow you
to have a gun in here.

1575
01:56:34,158 --> 01:56:36,564
Step over here and take it away from me.

1576
01:56:38,564 --> 01:56:39,565
Come on.

1577
01:56:46,171 --> 01:56:47,675
What do we think of Standard Oil?

1578
01:56:47,740 --> 01:56:49,577
Oh, we like Standard Oil, sir.

1579
01:56:49,909 --> 01:56:53,449
Keep your eyes on it. I want 500 shares
in that Cincinnati Milling, too.

1580
01:56:53,979 --> 01:56:55,717
My first son was a doctor.

1581
01:56:55,815 --> 01:56:58,620
A hacksaw artist,
about like this one right here.

1582
01:56:58,684 --> 01:57:02,125
He died of a brain tumor at 40.
Hadn't spoken to me in 15 years.

1583
01:57:02,188 --> 01:57:06,431
Why? 'Cause I'm a shitty parent.
Why don't you put that in your book?

1584
01:57:07,160 --> 01:57:08,429
Bad, ain't it?

1585
01:57:09,563 --> 01:57:12,402
I guess I died a lot faster
than you could write.

1586
01:57:14,735 --> 01:57:18,209
I don't know which version
I'm going to publish. I really don't.

1587
01:57:18,272 --> 01:57:22,681
Damn it. There you go again.
Accommodating me when you don't have to.

1588
01:57:22,744 --> 01:57:26,852
Turn around, you son of a bitch!
Get out of my goddamn hospital room!

1589
01:57:26,915 --> 01:57:28,251
Right now!

1590
01:57:29,051 --> 01:57:31,054
That's it. Out. Come on.

1591
01:57:35,023 --> 01:57:36,627
You fooled me, Stumpy.

1592
01:57:37,059 --> 01:57:40,699
I didn't think anybody could fool me,
but you got it done.

1593
01:57:41,464 --> 01:57:43,099
I thought we were pals.

1594
01:57:43,866 --> 01:57:46,037
I didn't know what I was getting into.

1595
01:57:46,102 --> 01:57:48,239
Shit. Will you stop explaining yourself?

1596
01:57:48,304 --> 01:57:51,343
Stand by your damn convictions.
You beat the great Ty Cobb.

1597
01:57:51,407 --> 01:57:54,747
I respect that.
But if you're gonna print it, print it all.

1598
01:57:54,811 --> 01:57:57,750
My second son weighed 300 pounds.

1599
01:57:58,415 --> 01:58:01,086
Died in the arms of a whore
in Paso Robles, California.

1600
01:58:01,152 --> 01:58:02,921
My other son, I lost all track of him.

1601
01:58:02,987 --> 01:58:06,626
My two ex-wives won't speak to me.
You know my daughter won't speak to me.

1602
01:58:06,690 --> 01:58:10,197
And Ty Cobb can't get it up anymore.
Print it all!

1603
01:58:12,497 --> 01:58:14,199
Is there anything you'd like today?

1604
01:58:14,264 --> 01:58:18,307
I want everything back that I took
from Bethlehem Steel and I want it all now.

1605
01:58:18,370 --> 01:58:19,739
Right away, sir.

1606
01:58:23,274 --> 01:58:24,811
It's very confusing.

1607
01:58:25,177 --> 01:58:28,416
It's not confusing. It's simple. You won.

1608
01:58:28,481 --> 01:58:30,451
You go ahead
and tell the whole wide world...

1609
01:58:30,516 --> 01:58:34,991
that the greatest ballplayer who ever lived
was also the greatest bastard.

1610
01:58:35,053 --> 01:58:36,689
Who fucking cares?

1611
01:58:38,357 --> 01:58:42,565
I give you my permission and my blessing!
From here on out it's your story!

1612
01:58:57,878 --> 01:58:59,013
I almost forgot.

1613
01:59:00,814 --> 01:59:03,152
I slipped them the old Oska-Fagus.

1614
01:59:03,551 --> 01:59:05,053
Where's my money at?

1615
01:59:05,118 --> 01:59:08,192
Your money's right here, Peach.
Next to your gun.

1616
01:59:11,026 --> 01:59:13,730
The desire for glory is not a sin.

1617
01:59:14,395 --> 01:59:16,332
Will you try to remember that?

1618
01:59:18,132 --> 01:59:19,503
Get out of here.

1619
01:59:30,179 --> 01:59:32,583
What about the gun? Did you get it?

1620
01:59:32,915 --> 01:59:34,384
No, I didn't get the gun.

1621
01:59:34,450 --> 01:59:35,451
Come on-

1622
01:59:43,560 --> 01:59:46,299
I gave a few bucks to a local kid
to repaint the sign...

1623
01:59:46,362 --> 01:59:48,868
disappeared for a while
to finish the manuscripts...

1624
01:59:48,932 --> 01:59:50,969
and to wait for Cobb to die.

1625
01:59:52,903 --> 01:59:55,875
And while I waited,
Ernest Hemingway blew his brains out...

1626
01:59:55,939 --> 01:59:57,509
Getty bought Honolulu Oil...

1627
01:59:57,575 --> 01:59:59,145
Coke came out in cans...

1628
01:59:59,210 --> 02:00:02,783
and the brunette in the courtyard
ran away with a young lawyer.

1629
02:00:03,314 --> 02:00:05,518
And on July 17, 1961...

1630
02:00:06,150 --> 02:00:08,555
Ty Cobb died quietly in his sleep.

1631
02:00:08,920 --> 02:00:11,959
I don't believe it was quiet,
nothing he ever did was quiet...

1632
02:00:12,023 --> 02:00:14,595
but that's what the newspaper writer said...

1633
02:00:14,659 --> 02:00:16,796
and we all know writers never lie.

1634
02:00:23,936 --> 02:00:26,340
To hell and back, can you believe that?

1635
02:00:26,404 --> 02:00:30,313
Audie Murphy! You aren't going to compare
Audie Murphy...

1636
02:00:35,815 --> 02:00:37,485
How are you doing?

1637
02:00:39,185 --> 02:00:40,587
Good to see you.

1638
02:00:41,054 --> 02:00:43,492
- How you doing?
- I'm doing fine.

1639
02:00:43,557 --> 02:00:46,194
I've got to confess, I missed you guys.

1640
02:00:46,360 --> 02:00:50,067
Tell me, how's the novel coming?
Should be about finished, right?

1641
02:00:50,131 --> 02:00:53,103
Actually, I haven't started it yet.
I've been kind of busy.

1642
02:00:55,736 --> 02:00:58,541
So tell us. We want to know.
What was Cobb like?

1643
02:00:58,606 --> 02:01:01,210
The stories, are they true?
Are they exaggerated?

1644
02:01:01,275 --> 02:01:02,911
Was he a monster or a good guy?

1645
02:01:02,977 --> 02:01:05,582
Tell us about Cobb.
What kind of a guy was he?

1646
02:01:05,647 --> 02:01:06,749
The truth?

1647
02:01:07,482 --> 02:01:08,952
What was Cobb like?

1648
02:01:11,619 --> 02:01:12,955
You want the truth?

1649
02:01:13,021 --> 02:01:15,291
Come on! Tell us.

1650
02:01:15,523 --> 02:01:16,893
Don't hold out.

1651
02:01:19,362 --> 02:01:20,831
The truth is...

1652
02:01:26,569 --> 02:01:29,174
a prince and a great man has fallen.

1653
02:01:31,140 --> 02:01:33,712
- Absolutely!
- All right!

1654
02:01:33,776 --> 02:01:36,181
Tyrus Raymond Cobb!

1655
02:01:38,481 --> 02:01:39,884
To Ty Cobb!

1656
02:01:39,949 --> 02:01:42,989
A misunderstood genius,
as genius always is.

1657
02:01:43,087 --> 02:01:44,222
Tell you a great story.

1658
02:01:44,287 --> 02:01:45,824
Guy comes up to him and says:

1659
02:01:45,890 --> 02:01:48,996
"Mr. Cobb, what would you hit
against today's pitchers?"

1660
02:01:49,059 --> 02:01:51,329
Cobb looks at him and says, ".290."

1661
02:01:52,530 --> 02:01:56,905
".290? Your lifetime batting
average is .367, you hit over... "

1662
02:01:56,967 --> 02:01:59,505
I published the lie
and put the truth in a closet.

1663
02:01:59,570 --> 02:02:01,573
Cobb looks him straight in the eye
and goes:

1664
02:02:01,639 --> 02:02:04,979
"Because I'm 72 fucking years old,
that's why. "

1665
02:02:06,912 --> 02:02:10,986
Cobb left most of his money to his family,
whom he had largely destroyed.

1666
02:02:11,049 --> 02:02:13,554
The remainder was used
for an education trust fund...

1667
02:02:13,619 --> 02:02:17,093
for poor Georgia children,
and to build a hospital in his hometown.

1668
02:02:20,459 --> 02:02:23,732
In death, at last,
he was reunited with his parents.

1669
02:02:24,631 --> 02:02:28,438
The man had some deep,
unexpressed sorrow I could never know.

1670
02:02:28,768 --> 02:02:31,440
I embraced him, and I hated him.

1671
02:02:32,605 --> 02:02:34,108
finally I didn't lie...

1672
02:02:34,174 --> 02:02:37,513
so the American children,
would have heroes or some such hogwash.

1673
02:02:37,577 --> 02:02:39,615
finally, I lied for myself.

1674
02:02:40,213 --> 02:02:41,950
I needed him to be a hero.

1675
02:02:43,116 --> 02:02:44,519
It is my weakness.

1676
02:07:04,660 --> 02:07:06,363
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

1677
02:07:06,429 --> 02:07:10,871
But you should never grip it at the end
if you want balance and control.

1678
02:07:11,034 --> 02:07:13,439
Learn the Fundamentals.

1679
02:07:13,537 --> 02:07:15,807
The game is a science.

1680
02:07:16,606 --> 02:07:19,812
Batting is a mental activity,
a study in psychology...

1681
02:07:19,876 --> 02:07:22,916
an observation of little details.

1682
02:07:24,514 --> 02:07:26,952
Every great batter works on the theory...

1683
02:07:27,017 --> 02:07:31,024
that the pitcher is more afraid of him
than he is of the pitcher.

1684
02:07:31,689 --> 02:07:35,229
The batter owns the plate,
the pitcher must come to you.

1685
02:07:37,228 --> 02:07:40,802
If John McGraw were a young man,
I would have killed him.

1686
02:07:43,134 --> 02:07:45,338
I regret I didn't go to college.

1687
02:07:45,404 --> 02:07:47,908
I feel I should have been a doctor.

1688
02:08:13,233 --> 02:08:15,805
Baseball was 100% of my life.