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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:21,733 --> 00:02:26,709 This 1916 portrait shows us Ty Cobb in his Detroit Tigers uniform... 2 00:02:26,939 --> 00:02:28,441 "the Georgia Peach." 3 00:02:28,507 --> 00:02:31,747 Note the smug expression and the haunting set of eyes. 4 00:02:32,144 --> 00:02:36,853 These disturbing eyes can be seen in the earliest photo ever taken of young Ty. 5 00:02:40,753 --> 00:02:44,160 Here, we see the famous swing of the great Ty Cobb. 6 00:02:44,723 --> 00:02:47,329 Turn the clock back to the beginning of the century... 7 00:02:47,393 --> 00:02:50,132 when America first embraced baseball... 8 00:02:50,296 --> 00:02:53,836 and the exchanging of the ground rules became a pre-game ritual... 9 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:55,903 that survives to this day. 10 00:02:55,969 --> 00:02:59,743 At that time, professional baseball was a casual game... 11 00:02:59,806 --> 00:03:01,476 with a circus atmosphere. 12 00:03:01,542 --> 00:03:04,047 Baseball players were often clowns... 13 00:03:04,111 --> 00:03:07,283 and pre-game antics took on the flavor of vaudeville. 14 00:03:07,582 --> 00:03:10,688 But young Ty Cobb would have none of that. 15 00:03:10,785 --> 00:03:13,390 He turned the game into war... 16 00:03:13,455 --> 00:03:16,995 and in the process, invented the modern game as we know it. 17 00:03:17,059 --> 00:03:20,331 Here, we see him running over a first sacker on a drag bunt: 18 00:03:20,395 --> 00:03:22,265 a play he perfected. 19 00:03:22,330 --> 00:03:25,804 The aggressive, attacking game was virtually Cobb's invention. 20 00:03:25,868 --> 00:03:29,642 Infielders and catchers often bled from his spikes. 21 00:03:29,705 --> 00:03:34,347 Cobb would fight any man on or off the field at the drop of a hat. 22 00:03:34,443 --> 00:03:36,079 Batting champion 12 times... 23 00:03:36,145 --> 00:03:39,952 he averaged over .300 for 23 consecutive years... 24 00:03:40,016 --> 00:03:43,155 and averaged over .400 for a five-year stretch. 25 00:03:43,219 --> 00:03:46,058 His lifetime batting average of .367... 26 00:03:46,122 --> 00:03:48,794 has never been seriously approached. 27 00:03:48,858 --> 00:03:51,763 The first celebrity athlete in American history... 28 00:03:51,828 --> 00:03:55,569 movie stars and presidents all sought his company. 29 00:03:55,632 --> 00:03:58,839 Here Cobb poses with his great archrival... 30 00:03:58,969 --> 00:04:00,939 the legendary Babe Ruth. 31 00:04:01,739 --> 00:04:04,811 Here we see Cobb with one of his five children: 32 00:04:05,243 --> 00:04:07,280 his little daughter Shirley. 33 00:04:07,878 --> 00:04:10,851 Here, he poses with some kids from the neighborhood. 34 00:04:10,916 --> 00:04:14,757 And, here, he shows his son his curious hands-apart grip. 35 00:04:14,886 --> 00:04:18,727 Though he was unable to teach his flaming, competitive heart. 36 00:04:18,790 --> 00:04:21,529 Charged with fixing games in 1926... 37 00:04:21,593 --> 00:04:25,400 Cobb was roundly supported by the children of America... 38 00:04:25,564 --> 00:04:28,503 who came to the great batsman's defense. 39 00:04:28,935 --> 00:04:32,308 The supposed scandal proved to be much ado about nothing... 40 00:04:32,371 --> 00:04:36,078 when baseball commissioner Judge Landis fully acquitted the Georgia Peach... 41 00:04:36,142 --> 00:04:37,945 of all wrongdoing. 42 00:04:38,378 --> 00:04:42,185 That is the very backbone of America itself. 43 00:04:42,983 --> 00:04:44,820 Near the end of his career... 44 00:04:44,885 --> 00:04:48,892 Cobb joined the Philadelphia Athletics, and at the age of 41... 45 00:04:48,956 --> 00:04:53,498 he batted .323 and retired shortly thereafter, telling the world: 46 00:04:53,661 --> 00:04:57,268 "If a man can't hit better than that, he ought to quit." 47 00:04:58,166 --> 00:05:02,007 Ty Cobb dominated the game as no man ever had. 48 00:05:02,737 --> 00:05:04,874 Yes, ladies and gentlemen... 49 00:05:04,939 --> 00:05:06,642 what a ballplayer! 50 00:05:17,752 --> 00:05:19,122 Hey, Stump. 51 00:05:39,375 --> 00:05:40,811 Stumpy! 52 00:05:41,545 --> 00:05:42,580 Gentlemen. 53 00:05:42,646 --> 00:05:44,783 Get over here. We've got to settle this. 54 00:05:44,848 --> 00:05:46,551 Stump! Come on! 55 00:05:46,616 --> 00:05:47,987 Congrats, Al. 56 00:05:48,052 --> 00:05:50,689 Four pieces in national magazines this month. 57 00:05:50,754 --> 00:05:51,890 Five. 58 00:05:52,256 --> 00:05:54,226 You're the man, Stumpy. 59 00:05:54,692 --> 00:05:57,798 Stumpy, 3:45, you're late. Where have you been? 60 00:05:57,862 --> 00:06:00,166 Stumpy, best fighter, pound for pound? 61 00:06:00,231 --> 00:06:02,369 Joe Louis, a champ for 11 years. 62 00:06:02,433 --> 00:06:05,373 Walker Smith, Jr. Better known to you dilettantes... 63 00:06:05,436 --> 00:06:08,109 as Sugar Ray Robinson. 64 00:06:08,173 --> 00:06:10,043 For Christ's sake, retired undefeated... 65 00:06:10,108 --> 00:06:14,517 Henry Armstrong held three titles at the same time. 66 00:06:14,580 --> 00:06:16,282 No other fighter... 67 00:06:17,716 --> 00:06:21,023 We call ourselves writers, and all we do is watch ball games... 68 00:06:21,087 --> 00:06:23,291 argue about everything, and just get drunk a lot. 69 00:06:23,356 --> 00:06:24,992 - You call that writing? - Yeah! 70 00:06:25,624 --> 00:06:29,264 Besides, Alan here is writing a serious novel, aren't you? 71 00:06:29,829 --> 00:06:32,768 Well, I haven't started yet, but I'm going to. 72 00:06:32,832 --> 00:06:35,237 - I've been very busy- - By the end of the century... 73 00:06:36,303 --> 00:06:40,310 You're pathetic! The only reason you write is for a paycheck. 74 00:06:40,374 --> 00:06:43,413 Besides, greatest fighter, Harry Greb, 294 fights, no contest. 75 00:06:43,476 --> 00:06:44,746 The guy killed everybody. 76 00:06:44,812 --> 00:06:47,551 My ass! He couldn't beat Harry Belafonte. 77 00:06:47,748 --> 00:06:49,918 Belafonte, best singer, male. 78 00:06:49,983 --> 00:06:51,119 - Elvis. - Perry Como. 79 00:06:51,184 --> 00:06:54,158 Three words! Francis Albert Sinatra. 80 00:06:54,222 --> 00:06:56,459 What about Nat "King" Cole? 81 00:06:56,524 --> 00:06:58,394 Best king. I've got Henry VIII... 82 00:06:58,459 --> 00:07:00,462 who started a new religion and had six wives- 83 00:07:00,528 --> 00:07:02,398 King James had a Bible named after him. 84 00:07:02,463 --> 00:07:03,933 Stump! The phone! 85 00:07:03,998 --> 00:07:06,337 - King, Bible- - King David. 86 00:07:06,735 --> 00:07:08,738 King David, best Jew. 87 00:07:10,239 --> 00:07:12,409 Best king? King Kong! 88 00:07:13,409 --> 00:07:14,778 Best monkey. 89 00:07:21,050 --> 00:07:23,320 Who? Who? 90 00:07:30,327 --> 00:07:32,230 Yes, sir, I certainly would. 91 00:07:36,399 --> 00:07:37,869 Yes, sir, I can. 92 00:07:38,569 --> 00:07:40,171 Yes, sir. Fine, thank you. 93 00:07:50,148 --> 00:07:52,151 Cobb wants to see me. 94 00:07:52,216 --> 00:07:54,754 - Cobb who? - Ty Cobb. How many Cobbs do you know? 95 00:07:54,819 --> 00:07:57,023 Cobb? But Cobb is dead. 96 00:07:57,422 --> 00:07:58,557 Not yet, he ain't. 97 00:07:58,623 --> 00:08:01,962 And he wants to tell me the real story of his life before he croaks. 98 00:08:02,027 --> 00:08:04,097 That was Ty Cobb on the phone right there? 99 00:08:04,163 --> 00:08:05,431 I heard he killed a man. 100 00:08:05,497 --> 00:08:08,035 Stumpy, he's crazy, he's meshuga. 101 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:10,872 Stumpy, listen to me. You've got to be careful with Cobb. 102 00:08:10,936 --> 00:08:13,841 Come on, the guy's over 70. Is he going to wheeze on me? 103 00:08:13,906 --> 00:08:17,480 I think I can handle him. Besides, he wants to see me. 104 00:08:17,576 --> 00:08:20,516 Cobb wants to see me! Greatest ballplayer of all time. 105 00:08:20,579 --> 00:08:22,851 - Ty Cobb! - Ty Cobb! 106 00:08:22,916 --> 00:08:24,686 - Ty Cobb. - I like Ruth. 107 00:08:24,751 --> 00:08:26,888 - Ruth? - Babe Ruth. 108 00:08:26,953 --> 00:08:28,656 Ever heard of him? 109 00:08:39,466 --> 00:08:41,603 Cobb owned property all over the country. 110 00:08:41,669 --> 00:08:44,340 Of late, he had been staying in his hunting lodge... 111 00:08:44,405 --> 00:08:46,610 at Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada. 112 00:08:48,042 --> 00:08:51,649 Stories of Cobb sharpening his spikes before a game were as familiar as... 113 00:08:51,712 --> 00:08:53,650 George Washington and his cherry tree... 114 00:08:53,714 --> 00:08:56,620 or Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill. 115 00:08:56,985 --> 00:09:01,026 I also knew his reputation for being difficult at best, psychotic at worst. 116 00:09:02,057 --> 00:09:04,662 By his own admission, he set out to hurt his opponents. 117 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,400 In one season alone, he sent 12 men to the hospital. 118 00:10:06,792 --> 00:10:09,598 Bullshit! Go ahead and quit then, Willie! 119 00:10:10,162 --> 00:10:11,632 Go ahead and quit! 120 00:10:11,797 --> 00:10:13,234 Get the hell out of here! 121 00:10:13,299 --> 00:10:15,404 Now, Mr. Cobb, you racist! Fuck you! 122 00:10:15,468 --> 00:10:19,542 You ain't no greatest baseball player! My ass plays better baseball than you! 123 00:10:19,606 --> 00:10:21,676 I'm out of here! You ain't got to tell me. 124 00:10:21,742 --> 00:10:23,411 Now, fuck you, Mr. Cobb! 125 00:10:23,476 --> 00:10:26,381 I have too much dignity to spend another moment with you. 126 00:10:26,447 --> 00:10:30,120 I hope you die before the sun comes up, and may you rot in hell! 127 00:10:30,183 --> 00:10:32,086 Excuse me. Who are you? 128 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:33,688 I'm the writer. 129 00:10:33,754 --> 00:10:36,593 You mean, he actually found someone to take the job? 130 00:10:36,657 --> 00:10:37,725 Write all you've got... 131 00:10:37,792 --> 00:10:40,429 he makes somebody dance Yankee Doodle Dandy on his ass. 132 00:10:40,494 --> 00:10:43,099 I'm out of here. I've never seen nobody like that before. 133 00:10:43,164 --> 00:10:45,736 Go on! You'll never last a day with that old bastard! 134 00:10:45,833 --> 00:10:47,069 You're gonna write that shit? 135 00:10:47,135 --> 00:10:49,673 Talking about "he's the greatest player of all time." 136 00:10:49,738 --> 00:10:51,976 My ass play better baseball than him! 137 00:10:52,041 --> 00:10:54,745 I'm out of here. I'm never gonna work for you no more! 138 00:10:54,810 --> 00:10:56,078 Don't ask me to come back! 139 00:10:56,145 --> 00:10:58,082 I'm free, and I'm glad to be out of here. 140 00:10:58,147 --> 00:11:00,084 This is America, you old motherfucker! 141 00:11:00,149 --> 00:11:01,719 Freedom! 142 00:11:01,784 --> 00:11:04,054 This is the land of "Oh, say can you see." 143 00:11:04,153 --> 00:11:06,157 Kiss my ass with a... 144 00:11:23,340 --> 00:11:24,642 Mr. Cobb? 145 00:11:30,715 --> 00:11:33,419 - Mr. Cobb? - Where's that sportswriter at? 146 00:11:39,624 --> 00:11:40,625 Mr. Cobb? 147 00:12:08,921 --> 00:12:10,525 Hello, Mr. Cobb. 148 00:12:12,292 --> 00:12:15,431 Thank you very much, Mr. Cobb, but I don't need this job that bad. 149 00:12:18,031 --> 00:12:21,037 Yes, Mr. Stump, you do need this job that bad. 150 00:12:21,101 --> 00:12:24,173 Now, come on in here and meet the great Ty Cobb! 151 00:12:26,641 --> 00:12:28,411 Oh, man, he's nuts. 152 00:12:30,478 --> 00:12:32,148 Don't let him get you. 153 00:12:32,580 --> 00:12:34,650 I won't hurt you. Come on. 154 00:12:45,727 --> 00:12:47,330 I won't hurt you. 155 00:12:49,498 --> 00:12:51,101 Come on in here. 156 00:12:57,607 --> 00:12:59,944 On the violin, Fritz Kreisler. 157 00:13:01,644 --> 00:13:03,748 I'm a great admirer of his. 158 00:13:12,355 --> 00:13:14,793 I'm also a great admirer of yours. 159 00:13:14,858 --> 00:13:16,193 Thank you. 160 00:13:17,961 --> 00:13:20,031 You are a hopeless romantic... 161 00:13:20,497 --> 00:13:23,103 and only a moderate success, however. 162 00:13:24,168 --> 00:13:26,672 Sir, I'm the highest-paid sportswriter in America... 163 00:13:26,738 --> 00:13:29,175 and not merely a "moderate success." 164 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:30,610 Of course. 165 00:13:31,142 --> 00:13:34,181 Hand me those green and white pills right there, please. 166 00:14:04,143 --> 00:14:07,784 That is an invitation to a testimonial dinner... 167 00:14:07,848 --> 00:14:10,486 at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. 168 00:14:10,550 --> 00:14:13,223 Young man, you're gonna take me there. 169 00:14:21,028 --> 00:14:22,431 When is it? 170 00:14:23,030 --> 00:14:24,400 In a few weeks. 171 00:14:25,933 --> 00:14:27,803 All the great ones are gonna be there! 172 00:14:27,869 --> 00:14:31,376 The great Mickey Cochrane, "Wahoo" Sam Crawford... 173 00:14:31,439 --> 00:14:34,645 Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, the Waner boys... 174 00:14:34,710 --> 00:14:36,847 Goddamn, we used to have some parties, Stump. 175 00:14:36,912 --> 00:14:39,349 I'm gonna tell you that right now. 176 00:14:48,357 --> 00:14:49,960 We can't forget. 177 00:14:51,227 --> 00:14:52,763 I won't forget. 178 00:14:58,968 --> 00:15:00,971 Look at me closely, Al. 179 00:15:01,638 --> 00:15:04,610 Lie after lie has been told about me. 180 00:15:05,242 --> 00:15:07,847 My entire life, I've been misunderstood. 181 00:15:08,645 --> 00:15:11,985 You are the very fortunate young sportswriter... 182 00:15:12,249 --> 00:15:15,121 who has been chosen to tell the true story... 183 00:15:15,185 --> 00:15:16,621 of Ty Cobb. 184 00:15:16,787 --> 00:15:20,261 - Great. What's the true story? - That's why you're here. 185 00:15:20,391 --> 00:15:22,561 See, there's two kinds of writers in this life. 186 00:15:22,626 --> 00:15:26,001 Ones that spin endless yarns about tiny little subjects, that's you... 187 00:15:26,064 --> 00:15:27,634 and the ones with one big subject... 188 00:15:27,699 --> 00:15:30,571 that consumes them forever, that could be you... 189 00:15:30,635 --> 00:15:32,873 because I am that subject. 190 00:15:57,597 --> 00:15:59,100 Are you okay? 191 00:15:59,332 --> 00:16:00,601 Jameson! 192 00:16:03,370 --> 00:16:05,207 Jameson, get your ass up here. 193 00:16:07,107 --> 00:16:08,210 Sir? 194 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,927 There's a small oil company in Bakersfield near Elk Hills Reserve... 195 00:16:22,991 --> 00:16:24,861 called Honolulu Oil Company. 196 00:16:24,926 --> 00:16:26,896 You buy all the stock in it that you can. 197 00:16:26,961 --> 00:16:30,201 Getty's expanding, I'm looking for little companies like that. 198 00:16:30,265 --> 00:16:33,037 I've got a hunch. Stump, come over here to me. 199 00:16:35,370 --> 00:16:37,942 I think I can take that buck. What do you think? 200 00:16:38,007 --> 00:16:40,612 With that pistol, I don't believe so. 201 00:16:41,444 --> 00:16:43,581 There's a board meeting at Coca-Cola in Atlanta. 202 00:16:43,646 --> 00:16:45,649 Tell them I can't make it for medical reasons. 203 00:16:45,714 --> 00:16:48,888 No, personal reasons. And sell everything I've got in 3M. 204 00:16:53,156 --> 00:16:54,157 Got him! 205 00:16:54,223 --> 00:16:55,560 Like hell you did! 206 00:16:55,626 --> 00:16:58,531 - I shot her damn throat out! - You are so full of shit! 207 00:16:58,595 --> 00:17:00,332 If Mr. Cobb says he got him, he got him. 208 00:17:00,397 --> 00:17:01,832 Then you're full of shit, too. 209 00:17:01,898 --> 00:17:05,238 You have no goddamn vision. A writer with no vision is a waste of time. 210 00:17:05,302 --> 00:17:07,205 I've hired the wrong son of a bitch. 211 00:17:08,105 --> 00:17:11,745 I better head back to San Francisco before the storm hits. 212 00:17:12,610 --> 00:17:14,513 I'll take care of these transactions. 213 00:17:14,579 --> 00:17:18,353 And I will be leaving, too, since you think I'm the wrong man for the job. 214 00:17:18,416 --> 00:17:21,121 Shut up, Stump, we both know I'm your meal ticket. 215 00:17:21,186 --> 00:17:22,889 I beg your pardon? 216 00:17:23,288 --> 00:17:25,058 We need each other. 217 00:17:26,458 --> 00:17:28,128 We'll start in the morning. 218 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:29,629 No! 219 00:17:29,695 --> 00:17:31,632 Yeah, bright and early. 220 00:17:36,302 --> 00:17:39,107 Mr. Cobb, I don't think I've made myself perfectly clear. 221 00:17:39,906 --> 00:17:41,743 Mr. Cobb! 222 00:17:49,383 --> 00:17:50,785 Ready. 223 00:17:58,792 --> 00:18:01,063 Chapter 1, page 1. 224 00:18:01,795 --> 00:18:02,998 Ready! 225 00:18:04,565 --> 00:18:08,205 "Know ye that a prince and a great man has fallen this day." 226 00:18:11,105 --> 00:18:12,475 What the hell is that? 227 00:18:12,540 --> 00:18:17,016 That is what Robert Lee said over the grave of my grandfather at Fredericksburg. 228 00:18:17,546 --> 00:18:18,781 So I'm taking notes? 229 00:18:18,847 --> 00:18:21,485 Hell no, it's the first line of my autobiography. 230 00:18:21,683 --> 00:18:23,153 - I'm not writing that. - Why not? 231 00:18:23,219 --> 00:18:24,854 It's horseshit. 232 00:18:25,587 --> 00:18:28,793 It's a third-person comment about somebody who's already dead. 233 00:18:28,858 --> 00:18:31,562 An autobiography has to be in the first person... 234 00:18:31,626 --> 00:18:34,500 plus it can't come from the other side of the goddamn grave. 235 00:18:34,564 --> 00:18:36,601 My story can come from any damn place I want. 236 00:18:36,666 --> 00:18:37,934 Not to mention the fact... 237 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,039 you can't call yourself a prince and a great man. 238 00:18:41,104 --> 00:18:42,105 That's for the- 239 00:18:42,172 --> 00:18:45,344 What kind of a writer are you, tied up in rules and regulations? 240 00:18:45,408 --> 00:18:47,846 What's the use of a writer if you can't say what want? 241 00:18:47,911 --> 00:18:51,652 You're not treating me like a writer, you're treating me like a stenographer. 242 00:18:55,719 --> 00:18:58,958 "that a prince and a great man... 243 00:18:59,490 --> 00:19:01,962 "has fallen this day." 244 00:19:02,226 --> 00:19:05,231 - It has a certain ring to it. - It certainly does. 245 00:19:05,296 --> 00:19:08,770 And I thought you might like it. It's yours, it's a gift. 246 00:19:10,234 --> 00:19:11,503 From me. 247 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:16,442 "Cobb... 248 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 --> 00:31:58,311 Was the killer ever caught? 415 00:31:58,336 --> 00:32:01,113 There was an arrest, trial, an acquittal... 416 00:32:01,151 --> 00:32:02,687 but never a conviction. 417 00:32:02,753 --> 00:32:05,425 Jesus Christ. I'm sorry. 418 00:32:05,489 --> 00:32:06,992 Don't give me that sob-sister crap. 419 00:32:07,057 --> 00:32:09,896 The only thing that matters is a man's accomplishments. 420 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,165 I must say, in all humility... 421 00:32:14,565 --> 00:32:19,341 I'm the greatest baseball player of all time. Nobody even comes a close second. 422 00:32:21,272 --> 00:32:24,111 They say I used to sharpen my spikes. 423 00:32:24,610 --> 00:32:27,582 Georgia Peach, my ass, you son of a bitch! 424 00:32:27,646 --> 00:32:29,783 You're gonna get hurt today, you son of a bitch. 425 00:32:29,849 --> 00:32:32,587 You wanna do it right now, or out there? Come on back here. 426 00:32:32,651 --> 00:32:33,754 But I ask you: 427 00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:38,228 Can you hurt a man worse by cutting him up with dull, rusty steel... 428 00:32:38,625 --> 00:32:41,497 or a finely honed, razor-sharp edge? 429 00:32:41,928 --> 00:32:44,667 You could view my efforts as humanitarian. 430 00:32:44,730 --> 00:32:46,468 Double left, steal third, steal home. 431 00:32:46,532 --> 00:32:47,701 - Eight to one. - Bullshit! 432 00:32:47,767 --> 00:32:49,437 - Ten to one. .$1oo. 433 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. 434 00:32:57,878 --> 00:33:00,048 What in the hell is going on in this dugout? 435 00:33:00,114 --> 00:33:02,151 Where did all these newspapers come from? 436 00:33:02,216 --> 00:33:04,486 What are you doing? When did you learn how to read? 437 00:33:04,551 --> 00:33:07,491 Why don't you get your head in the ballgame? 438 00:33:11,325 --> 00:33:14,265 Hello to each and every one of you. 439 00:33:38,521 --> 00:33:40,291 - Who signed you? - Go to hell, Cobb. 440 00:33:40,356 --> 00:33:41,391 Who did that? 441 00:33:41,457 --> 00:33:43,562 Excellent day for a game of ball. 442 00:33:43,627 --> 00:33:45,630 - How do you do, Cyclops? - Shut up, Cobb. 443 00:33:45,696 --> 00:33:47,766 You're missing an excellent ball game. 444 00:33:47,831 --> 00:33:49,334 By the way... 445 00:33:51,969 --> 00:33:55,241 your wife left these in my automobile last night. 446 00:33:55,305 --> 00:33:57,911 I thought you might wanna take them back to her. 447 00:33:57,975 --> 00:33:59,812 Let's see what we have on the mound today. 448 00:33:59,877 --> 00:34:01,914 - Play ball! - Come along! 449 00:34:06,317 --> 00:34:08,255 Strike one! 450 00:34:09,754 --> 00:34:11,557 Is that all your boy has? 451 00:34:11,622 --> 00:34:14,228 This must be a hometown boy. Look at this. 452 00:34:14,292 --> 00:34:17,866 You better check your wife. One of the ballplayers are missing. 453 00:34:17,930 --> 00:34:19,400 Come on, boy. 454 00:34:20,533 --> 00:34:22,536 You're going down, Cobb. 455 00:34:23,635 --> 00:34:24,637 Ball! 456 00:34:27,106 --> 00:34:29,176 Is that the fastest you can throw? 457 00:34:29,241 --> 00:34:32,014 If I couldn't throw any better than that, I'd wear a dress! 458 00:34:32,078 --> 00:34:34,516 It's kind of tough hittin' from your back, ain't it? 459 00:34:34,581 --> 00:34:37,386 That's the way your mother always liked it. 460 00:34:45,092 --> 00:34:46,093 Play ball! 461 00:35:06,715 --> 00:35:08,885 - Safe! - Get out of here, boy! 462 00:35:11,887 --> 00:35:15,060 You should've thrown it at my head! You should've tried to kill me! 463 00:35:15,124 --> 00:35:17,628 I hear you're from Georgia, where the men are men... 464 00:35:17,692 --> 00:35:20,231 - and the sheep are nervous. - Get back on that hill. 465 00:35:20,329 --> 00:35:22,499 I'm gonna steal third on you, young man. 466 00:35:22,564 --> 00:35:24,467 I'm coming down there! 467 00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:57,736 That's enough! 468 00:35:58,235 --> 00:35:59,772 Come on, Cobb! 469 00:36:04,476 --> 00:36:08,550 You want in on the action? My grandmother throws better than that! 470 00:36:08,613 --> 00:36:11,720 - I'm coming down to kick your daggone ass! - Come on! 471 00:36:11,784 --> 00:36:15,190 I should've stuck it in that bastard's ear when I had a chance. 472 00:36:23,896 --> 00:36:25,799 He's going, he's going! 473 00:36:32,872 --> 00:36:33,874 Safe! 474 00:36:53,027 --> 00:36:54,163 Son of a bitch! 475 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. 476 00:37:10,246 --> 00:37:13,185 They were the enemy and you fought with them. 477 00:37:13,682 --> 00:37:17,322 And I was the most hated man in baseball. 478 00:37:18,454 --> 00:37:20,892 You know what it's like to be booed like that? 479 00:37:20,957 --> 00:37:23,662 It feels wonderful! 480 00:37:23,893 --> 00:37:28,067 They couldn't live without me! They came to the ball park to see me! 481 00:37:28,298 --> 00:37:32,339 Fifty thousand fans trying to kill me, everywhere I went. 482 00:37:32,835 --> 00:37:34,941 I had so many death threats at one time... 483 00:37:35,005 --> 00:37:38,679 the cops had to patrol the outfield and the stands, looking for snipers. 484 00:37:38,743 --> 00:37:40,112 I loved it! 485 00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:44,184 Hey, Cobb! Just stay out of my game... 486 00:37:44,249 --> 00:37:46,152 Only great men are booed, Stump. 487 00:37:46,217 --> 00:37:49,423 Captains of industry, presidents, I knew them all. 488 00:37:49,988 --> 00:37:53,561 It was a fact, in those days, that Woodrow Wilson had the best scotch... 489 00:37:53,625 --> 00:37:57,064 and used to invite me to the White House to try it out. 490 00:37:58,664 --> 00:38:02,171 It was also a Fact that Warren Harding had the best broads... 491 00:38:02,234 --> 00:38:03,869 and threw the best damn parties. 492 00:38:03,935 --> 00:38:06,073 I can tell you right now that Calvin Coolidge... 493 00:38:06,138 --> 00:38:09,077 and that stupid cat of his weren't any fun at all. 494 00:38:10,576 --> 00:38:14,016 After World War Il, General George Patton asked me for my autograph. 495 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,217 Said he'd patterned himself after me. 496 00:38:16,283 --> 00:38:18,320 - You getting all this? - I'll remember. 497 00:38:18,384 --> 00:38:21,791 - How come you don't write it down? - Because I'm preparing to die. 498 00:38:21,854 --> 00:38:23,624 - I'm not ready to die. - I'm not either! 499 00:38:23,690 --> 00:38:26,830 I'm going to Reno to get laid, and you're gonna get laid. 500 00:38:26,893 --> 00:38:29,231 Maybe I don't want to get laid. 501 00:38:30,030 --> 00:38:31,400 You queer? 502 00:38:31,865 --> 00:38:33,868 - I'm married. - I thought you were divorced. 503 00:38:33,934 --> 00:38:37,006 No, we're having a problem, but we're talking it out. 504 00:38:37,071 --> 00:38:40,043 "Talking." Shit. Quit hanging on. Get you a divorce. 505 00:38:40,108 --> 00:38:41,743 That why you won't get laid in Reno? 506 00:38:41,810 --> 00:38:44,214 You're feeling loyal to a woman you're gonna divorce? 507 00:38:44,278 --> 00:38:46,181 That's pretty stupid, Stumpy. 508 00:38:46,380 --> 00:38:49,119 I'm not getting a divorce. I'm being loyal. 509 00:38:49,183 --> 00:38:51,788 That's why you wined and dined the little brunette... 510 00:38:51,853 --> 00:38:54,993 who had the office across the courtyard from you in Santa Barbara? 511 00:38:55,057 --> 00:38:57,428 - What do you know about her? - I do my homework. 512 00:38:57,492 --> 00:39:00,130 - It didn't last long. - You don't have to explain. 513 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. 514 00:39:04,032 --> 00:39:06,638 - Nobody knows about the brunette! - It's our secret. 515 00:39:06,702 --> 00:39:09,841 The part about me being a shit with women ain't going in the book. 516 00:39:09,905 --> 00:39:13,212 - I gotta put your family in my book. - Your book? My book! 517 00:39:13,276 --> 00:39:16,582 Nothing about my ex-wives or my children is gonna be in it. 518 00:39:16,646 --> 00:39:18,951 - My book is about baseball. - My book is about Cobb. 519 00:39:19,015 --> 00:39:21,018 Cobb is baseball! 520 00:39:22,051 --> 00:39:23,053 Look. 521 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,390 What is that? 522 00:39:25,889 --> 00:39:27,659 - That's a man! - Fuck him. 523 00:39:27,724 --> 00:39:29,194 Stop the car. 524 00:39:30,961 --> 00:39:34,268 Whoever it is, gotta be pretty stupid to be out in this shit. 525 00:39:34,331 --> 00:39:36,501 Why? We're out in this shit. 526 00:39:45,043 --> 00:39:48,884 Come on! Get in the car. What the hell are you doing out here? 527 00:39:50,115 --> 00:39:52,385 - It's you! - It's the writer! 528 00:39:52,450 --> 00:39:54,353 - Get in the damn car. - Thank you. 529 00:39:54,419 --> 00:39:56,624 I can't believe you found me. 530 00:39:59,425 --> 00:40:02,430 I told you, you wouldn't last a day with that bastard. 531 00:40:04,797 --> 00:40:06,400 Cobb's in the car. He's driving. 532 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. 533 00:40:10,469 --> 00:40:11,672 - I'd rather- - Get in the car! 534 00:40:11,738 --> 00:40:14,944 - He hates me. He hates colored people. - He hates all fucking people! 535 00:40:15,007 --> 00:40:17,346 Don't give him the satisfaction of dying out here. 536 00:40:17,411 --> 00:40:20,483 If dying out here gives him pleasure, then I won't die out here. 537 00:40:26,687 --> 00:40:28,757 It's Willie. We'll get him over to town. 538 00:40:28,823 --> 00:40:31,862 I ain't taking that nigger anywhere. Get your ass out of here. 539 00:40:31,926 --> 00:40:33,929 Shut the fuck up and give him a lift! 540 00:40:33,994 --> 00:40:36,399 You ain't gonna shoot me. He's bluffing. 541 00:40:37,365 --> 00:40:41,573 No, I won't. But I'm sure Willie here will take great satisfaction in it. 542 00:40:45,674 --> 00:40:47,944 - Willie, you a baseball fan? - Yes, sir. 543 00:40:48,009 --> 00:40:50,113 Who's the greatest ballplayer, in your opinion? 544 00:40:50,179 --> 00:40:52,182 Willie Mays, no doubt about it. 545 00:40:52,314 --> 00:40:54,350 That nigger couldn't hold my jockey strap. 546 00:40:54,375 --> 00:40:56,079 Excuse me, the man is speaking. 547 00:40:56,118 --> 00:40:59,457 And I'd say, the second-greatest player is Jackie Robinson. 548 00:40:59,554 --> 00:41:02,795 - You know that's horseshit. - Josh Gibson is the greatest catcher. 549 00:41:02,859 --> 00:41:05,297 - What about Mickey Cochrane? - What about Campanella? 550 00:41:05,362 --> 00:41:10,171 You try to steal on Campy, he'd run down there and tag your ass out. 551 00:41:10,433 --> 00:41:12,737 That's very poor firearm safety, Willie. 552 00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:15,073 Willie, who was the best base runner? 553 00:41:15,205 --> 00:41:19,480 Well, of course, the greatest base runner of all time isn't riding in this car. 554 00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:20,745 No? 555 00:41:20,811 --> 00:41:24,852 The fastest base runner of all time was "Cool Papa" Bell. 556 00:41:24,915 --> 00:41:26,551 "Cool Papa" Bell, my ass. 557 00:41:26,617 --> 00:41:30,091 "Cool Papa" Bell was so fast, once he hit a line drive up the middle... 558 00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:33,193 that hit himself in the head sliding into second base. 559 00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:37,631 Okay, best pitcher. Satchel Paige? 560 00:41:37,929 --> 00:41:40,634 Satchel Paige can throw a pork chop past a wolf. 561 00:41:40,698 --> 00:41:43,404 Mr. Cobb, with that hesitation pitch... 562 00:41:43,468 --> 00:41:48,211 old Satchel would have had you batting .220 and kissing his black ass. 563 00:41:48,473 --> 00:41:52,047 I didn't know you were prejudiced, only talking about nigger ballplayers. 564 00:41:52,110 --> 00:41:54,683 Prejudiced? You calling me prejudiced? 565 00:41:54,847 --> 00:41:56,917 The man with the gun does the talking. 566 00:41:56,982 --> 00:41:58,985 You wretched old prick. 567 00:42:05,025 --> 00:42:06,527 Slow down, Mr. Cobb. 568 00:42:07,060 --> 00:42:08,061 Watch it. 569 00:42:11,264 --> 00:42:13,101 What the hell are you doing? 570 00:42:27,582 --> 00:42:29,117 That's it. I'm driving. 571 00:42:29,183 --> 00:42:32,189 Get your hands off the goddamn steering wheel. 572 00:43:02,752 --> 00:43:04,555 Fucked up roads, Stumpy. 573 00:43:07,457 --> 00:43:08,859 Thank you, Lord. 574 00:43:10,193 --> 00:43:12,398 And I want to thank you, Mr. Cobb... 575 00:43:12,763 --> 00:43:14,532 for the lift into town. 576 00:43:15,733 --> 00:43:16,968 And you, sir... 577 00:43:17,468 --> 00:43:20,974 you should leave this disgusting, wretched... 578 00:43:21,205 --> 00:43:24,845 sorry son of a motherfucker immediately. 579 00:43:25,911 --> 00:43:27,146 Good evening. 580 00:43:43,495 --> 00:43:45,699 Oh, thank you, Jesus. 581 00:43:46,432 --> 00:43:48,703 Oh, Lord, there's Reno, Nevada. 582 00:44:24,439 --> 00:44:26,141 What is the problem now? 583 00:44:26,941 --> 00:44:28,644 I'm a loyal customer... 584 00:44:29,043 --> 00:44:30,613 All you do is complain. 585 00:44:30,679 --> 00:44:33,952 Complain? Have you ever tried drying off with one of your towels? 586 00:44:34,016 --> 00:44:35,051 You can see through them. 587 00:44:35,117 --> 00:44:37,689 You cannot see through them. Plus, people steal them. 588 00:44:37,753 --> 00:44:39,088 I can't keep good ones in stock. 589 00:44:39,154 --> 00:44:41,258 They're thicker than your blankets. 590 00:44:41,323 --> 00:44:42,592 Two rooms, please. 591 00:44:42,658 --> 00:44:44,628 Get in line. I'm in the middle of something. 592 00:44:44,694 --> 00:44:48,168 The heat's on the blink. The mattress is lumpy. I want a discount. 593 00:44:48,231 --> 00:44:51,337 - Mona, you always want a discount. - Ramona. 594 00:44:52,035 --> 00:44:53,203 And the mattress is- 595 00:44:53,269 --> 00:44:57,076 Excuse me, I got a very sick man. Can I get him checked in, please? 596 00:44:57,140 --> 00:45:00,012 We're all sick in the eyes of God, but we still have manners. 597 00:45:00,076 --> 00:45:02,281 - I'm not through with you yet, Jane. - Ramona- 598 00:45:02,346 --> 00:45:03,848 I'm moving down the street. 599 00:45:03,913 --> 00:45:07,454 As a matter of fact, I'm moving to a higher-level establishment. 600 00:45:07,985 --> 00:45:09,687 May I help you? 601 00:45:11,421 --> 00:45:14,562 Two rooms, please. 602 00:45:21,466 --> 00:45:23,837 I was a fool for thinking Cobb's brilliance... 603 00:45:23,902 --> 00:45:26,373 might be what I needed at this moment of my life. 604 00:45:26,437 --> 00:45:28,643 Ty Cobb was the last thing I needed. 605 00:45:28,974 --> 00:45:30,711 He was not misunderstood. 606 00:45:30,809 --> 00:45:32,746 He was understood perfectly well. 607 00:45:32,811 --> 00:45:36,218 He hated blacks. He hated Jews. He hated Catholics. 608 00:45:36,282 --> 00:45:39,855 He hated everything except himself and his own view of the world. 609 00:46:11,786 --> 00:46:15,693 "Pathetic, paranoid, and lost in the past." What is this shit? 610 00:46:15,756 --> 00:46:17,961 Those are my notes. You can't look at my notes. 611 00:46:18,026 --> 00:46:21,031 Your fucking notes is my goddamn life. You're gonna betray me. 612 00:46:21,096 --> 00:46:22,364 I'm gonna tell the truth. 613 00:46:22,431 --> 00:46:24,334 - Whose truth? - Mine. I'm the writer. 614 00:46:24,399 --> 00:46:28,508 And I am the legend, and legends are not fucking pathetic. 615 00:46:29,404 --> 00:46:31,242 They're just notes. 616 00:46:31,307 --> 00:46:33,611 You don't know a thing about greatness, do you? 617 00:46:33,675 --> 00:46:34,677 So sue me. 618 00:46:34,744 --> 00:46:37,616 Why don't you find yourself another writer? 619 00:46:39,482 --> 00:46:40,851 There's no time. 620 00:46:43,119 --> 00:46:45,324 Okay, I'm entitled to my opinion. 621 00:46:45,588 --> 00:46:47,325 That is truly pathetic. 622 00:46:47,490 --> 00:46:50,662 Who gives a good goddamn about the opinions of Al Stump? 623 00:46:50,728 --> 00:46:54,234 What people want to know about is Tyrus Raymond Cobb... 624 00:46:54,331 --> 00:46:57,070 not who he hates, 'cause everyone hates somebody. 625 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. 626 00:47:00,838 --> 00:47:03,677 You think they want to know how to steal second base? 627 00:47:03,741 --> 00:47:05,044 Yes, precisely! 628 00:47:05,343 --> 00:47:06,445 I don't. 629 00:47:06,510 --> 00:47:09,917 I get it. You're one of these college psychology-type fellows. 630 00:47:09,981 --> 00:47:13,655 You want to find the missing piece of the puzzle known as the Madman Cobb. 631 00:47:13,718 --> 00:47:16,723 You think you'll be the next Ernest Hemingway? 632 00:47:16,788 --> 00:47:19,995 You're just a moderate-sized success in a moderate-sized pond. 633 00:47:20,058 --> 00:47:23,933 Fuck you, Cobb. I am much more than a moderate success. 634 00:47:24,229 --> 00:47:27,636 You sure have a little spirit there. I like that. That's good. 635 00:47:29,067 --> 00:47:31,238 You want some goddamn psychology, son? 636 00:47:31,303 --> 00:47:32,839 I'm all ears. 637 00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:34,608 You listen to me. 638 00:47:35,208 --> 00:47:37,145 I'll give you some psychology. 639 00:47:42,615 --> 00:47:44,518 My father was a great man. 640 00:47:47,253 --> 00:47:51,595 He told my mother he was going out of town for the weekend on business. 641 00:47:51,925 --> 00:47:53,495 But he didn't go. 642 00:47:54,328 --> 00:47:58,669 He came back, because he thought she was being unfaithful. 643 00:48:00,067 --> 00:48:03,373 I don't know why he thought it, but he thought it. 644 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. 645 00:48:09,944 --> 00:48:11,747 Catch him in the act. 646 00:48:14,716 --> 00:48:18,925 My father had high standards. The highest. 647 00:48:19,321 --> 00:48:21,158 He believed in quality. 648 00:48:21,323 --> 00:48:23,294 He believed in education. 649 00:48:23,459 --> 00:48:25,028 He believed in God. 650 00:48:25,194 --> 00:48:26,663 He believed in me. 651 00:48:27,196 --> 00:48:28,999 He believed in my mother. 652 00:48:30,499 --> 00:48:32,704 But on that night... 653 00:48:33,202 --> 00:48:35,272 he seemed like a prowler. 654 00:48:36,038 --> 00:48:37,374 And so... 655 00:48:39,909 --> 00:48:42,781 my mother killed my father. 656 00:48:43,180 --> 00:48:45,117 Shot him in the belly... 657 00:48:52,590 --> 00:48:56,531 and then blew his head clean off. 658 00:49:02,166 --> 00:49:04,170 Your mother killed your father? 659 00:49:04,335 --> 00:49:07,507 Pretty goddamn good piece of psychology, wouldn't you say? 660 00:49:07,571 --> 00:49:10,812 Childhood incident that explains me. 661 00:49:11,710 --> 00:49:13,413 Let me tell you something. 662 00:49:13,712 --> 00:49:17,352 I was a prick before it happened, and a much bigger prick after it happened. 663 00:49:17,416 --> 00:49:20,255 You can stick that up your Sigmund Freud ass. 664 00:49:20,419 --> 00:49:24,193 - Your mother killed your father? - And you're not printing it, either. 665 00:49:24,290 --> 00:49:28,399 - I have to. - No, not unless I say so. 666 00:49:28,528 --> 00:49:31,367 I don't think you understand something, young man. 667 00:49:31,831 --> 00:49:34,487 I have final editorial approval of your book. 668 00:49:34,512 --> 00:49:35,530 No, I do. 669 00:49:35,635 --> 00:49:37,238 I always have it. 670 00:49:37,304 --> 00:49:38,840 Did you read your contract? 671 00:49:38,906 --> 00:49:40,643 It's my standard contract. 672 00:49:40,874 --> 00:49:43,579 I wouldn't have agreed if I didn't have final approval. 673 00:49:43,644 --> 00:49:45,881 You better call your agent, boy, right now. 674 00:49:45,946 --> 00:49:48,851 Better call your lawyer. Wouldn't hurt to call your mother. 675 00:49:48,916 --> 00:49:50,719 You're gonna need all three of them. 676 00:49:50,784 --> 00:49:52,787 Play another one of your games. 677 00:49:54,455 --> 00:49:57,460 You better call William and Morris. 678 00:50:04,599 --> 00:50:06,202 Long distance, please. 679 00:50:06,535 --> 00:50:09,073 Murray Hill, 65955. 680 00:50:12,975 --> 00:50:14,845 Sterling? Al. 681 00:50:14,910 --> 00:50:15,911 Sterling? 682 00:50:15,978 --> 00:50:18,450 No, it's going great. Couldn't be better. 683 00:50:19,715 --> 00:50:21,518 Look, quick question. 684 00:50:22,017 --> 00:50:25,824 We didn't give away final editorial approval on the Cobb book, did we? 685 00:50:34,865 --> 00:50:37,403 Doesn't change anything? What are you talking about? 686 00:50:37,468 --> 00:50:39,638 Everything's just swell. Hunky-dory. 687 00:50:41,638 --> 00:50:43,274 Everything's just fine. 688 00:50:43,540 --> 00:50:45,243 Speak to you later. Bye. 689 00:50:45,877 --> 00:50:49,350 You're pretty damn stupid to give up editorial approval, aren't you? 690 00:50:50,247 --> 00:50:53,186 Predatory bastard. Think you're going to pick over my bones... 691 00:50:53,250 --> 00:50:55,788 - you got another think coming. - Fuck you, Cobb. 692 00:50:55,853 --> 00:50:58,391 Fuck me? How come you're so mad at me? 693 00:50:58,456 --> 00:51:01,195 Your publisher, your lawyer, and your agent made the deal. 694 00:51:01,259 --> 00:51:04,833 You didn't read the contract because you're a very trusting soul. 695 00:51:04,930 --> 00:51:07,602 Whoever heard of trusting a lawyer or an agent? 696 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. 697 00:51:11,370 --> 00:51:13,474 Listen to me, you son of a bitch. 698 00:51:14,039 --> 00:51:16,444 If you die before this book is finished... 699 00:51:16,509 --> 00:51:18,112 I'll write the story I want. 700 00:51:18,177 --> 00:51:19,880 I won't die before it's finished. 701 00:51:19,946 --> 00:51:22,183 - I'll write slow. - I'll die slow. 702 00:51:23,517 --> 00:51:26,255 Get your clothes on. We're going to go get some pussy. 703 00:51:34,827 --> 00:51:37,533 For you're the lover I have waited for 704 00:51:37,597 --> 00:51:41,237 You're the man that Fate had me created For 705 00:51:41,636 --> 00:51:45,243 And every time your lips meet mine 706 00:51:45,306 --> 00:51:49,447 Baby, down and down I go Round and round I go 707 00:51:49,510 --> 00:51:51,647 In a spin, loving the spin I'm in 708 00:51:51,712 --> 00:51:53,817 Cigars? Cigarettes? 709 00:51:56,918 --> 00:51:59,890 Mr. Cobb, what a pleasure. 710 00:51:59,955 --> 00:52:01,992 I'll take that. Take their coats. 711 00:52:05,294 --> 00:52:08,533 In a spin, loving the spin I'm in 712 00:52:08,597 --> 00:52:09,866 Thank you. 713 00:52:09,932 --> 00:52:12,303 - Watch your step. - Get your hand off me. 714 00:52:12,602 --> 00:52:16,409 I just stay away, but what can I do 715 00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,286 - Guess they know you here. - A little bit. 716 00:52:27,383 --> 00:52:30,523 Cigars, cigarettes! 717 00:52:31,622 --> 00:52:34,761 I'll bet you $100 I can get into her britches before dawn. 718 00:52:34,825 --> 00:52:38,766 My God, it's Mona. Ramona. We met her at the hotel, remember? 719 00:52:38,862 --> 00:52:41,300 Young lady. Come on over here. 720 00:52:42,733 --> 00:52:44,470 Good evening, gentlemen. 721 00:52:45,269 --> 00:52:49,745 Cigars, maybe? We stockpiled Havanas before Se�or Castro did his little number. 722 00:52:49,807 --> 00:52:53,047 Sure. Couple of Montecristos, please. Number Two, Ramona. 723 00:52:53,111 --> 00:52:56,451 - Have we met? - Yes, at the hotel. Checking in. 724 00:52:56,748 --> 00:52:58,184 You were the asshole. 725 00:52:58,250 --> 00:53:00,120 Excuse me, young lady. 726 00:53:00,853 --> 00:53:04,894 I'll apologize for the manners of my friend. He has a crude side. 727 00:53:05,157 --> 00:53:06,158 I accept. 728 00:53:06,526 --> 00:53:09,063 Ramona. That's a lovely name. That's a Spanish name. 729 00:53:09,128 --> 00:53:12,568 That means "moonlit garden of the gods," doesn't it? 730 00:53:13,967 --> 00:53:18,075 It's German. It means "wise protectress." But thanks for the thought. 731 00:53:18,271 --> 00:53:19,339 Thanks for the tip. 732 00:53:19,405 --> 00:53:22,244 Just a minute here. I want to see all your cigars. 733 00:53:25,145 --> 00:53:27,350 Keely, got something for you. 734 00:53:28,549 --> 00:53:31,888 Thank you very much. We loves you, too. You're a great crowd. 735 00:53:33,453 --> 00:53:36,259 I've been informed that we have a celebrity with us tonight. 736 00:53:36,323 --> 00:53:37,358 A legend. 737 00:53:37,424 --> 00:53:39,762 A man who truly needs no introduction. 738 00:53:39,827 --> 00:53:42,866 I'm gonna play a little trick on you, darling. You watch this. 739 00:53:42,930 --> 00:53:45,034 The one and only Ty Cobb. 740 00:53:48,036 --> 00:53:49,171 Got you, didn't I? 741 00:53:49,237 --> 00:53:52,076 Didn't think you'd be in show business, did you, darling? 742 00:53:52,140 --> 00:53:54,845 Come on here with me, and we'll cut a rug up here! 743 00:53:54,910 --> 00:53:56,412 Sweet Georgia Brown. 744 00:53:57,012 --> 00:53:59,517 I don't think this is such a good idea. 745 00:54:01,883 --> 00:54:03,754 I can't wait till she kisses me 746 00:54:03,819 --> 00:54:06,124 Under the old green tree 747 00:54:07,090 --> 00:54:09,862 "Moonlit garden of the gods." 748 00:54:10,860 --> 00:54:15,436 Since she came, it's a shame how she cools 'em down 749 00:54:15,498 --> 00:54:18,171 There are fellers she can't get 750 00:54:18,235 --> 00:54:20,572 There are fellers she ain't met yet 751 00:54:20,637 --> 00:54:22,942 Georgia named her, Georgia claimed her 752 00:54:23,006 --> 00:54:24,509 Sweet Georgia Brown 753 00:54:24,975 --> 00:54:26,510 Come on up here with Louis. 754 00:54:26,576 --> 00:54:28,981 Come on, right here, darling. Love you. 755 00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:31,082 They want you, Ty. 756 00:54:32,350 --> 00:54:34,587 Of course they want me. 757 00:54:41,726 --> 00:54:44,131 Sam, I see you over there now. 758 00:54:44,295 --> 00:54:45,598 How you doing, baby? 759 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,538 How about this right here, baby? 760 00:54:51,603 --> 00:54:53,273 She can't get 761 00:54:53,339 --> 00:54:55,109 How about a little smooch? 762 00:54:56,541 --> 00:54:58,612 You're very sweet. That's great, darling. 763 00:55:00,847 --> 00:55:02,282 All right! 764 00:55:02,414 --> 00:55:04,050 Sweet Georgia Brown! 765 00:55:10,590 --> 00:55:12,627 This cat can really swing. 766 00:55:14,094 --> 00:55:17,433 Help Louis welcome Mr. Ty Cobb. 767 00:55:21,635 --> 00:55:23,538 It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Cobb. 768 00:55:23,604 --> 00:55:27,078 I'm a big baseball fan, so I always wanted to ask you a question. 769 00:55:27,308 --> 00:55:30,247 With all the great players playing ball right now... 770 00:55:30,344 --> 00:55:33,316 how well do you think you'd do against today's pitchers? 771 00:55:33,381 --> 00:55:36,821 Against today's pitchers, I'd probably hit only. 290. 772 00:55:37,051 --> 00:55:38,487 That's amazing... 773 00:55:38,553 --> 00:55:42,193 because you batted over .400 a whole bunch of times. 774 00:55:42,391 --> 00:55:44,261 Now tell us all, we'd like to know... 775 00:55:44,326 --> 00:55:46,998 why do you think you'd only hit .290? 776 00:55:47,095 --> 00:55:50,703 I'm 72 fucking years old, you ignorant son of a bitch, that's why. 777 00:55:50,766 --> 00:55:52,569 Let me see this thing here. 778 00:55:52,635 --> 00:55:55,640 First of all, I want to say thank you for Sweet Georgia Brown. 779 00:55:55,705 --> 00:55:58,377 A very fine song about my home state, and I appreciate it. 780 00:55:58,441 --> 00:56:02,348 That song has become the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters lately. 781 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... 782 00:56:06,382 --> 00:56:08,352 playing a faggot's game in their underwear. 783 00:56:08,418 --> 00:56:12,493 That team is owned by a Jew named Saperstein, so what do you expect? 784 00:56:12,556 --> 00:56:14,693 Thank you very much, Mr. Cobb. 785 00:56:14,758 --> 00:56:16,962 - Now let me explain- - Thank you very much. 786 00:56:17,026 --> 00:56:19,599 Let's have one more round of applause for Mr. Ty Cobb. 787 00:56:19,663 --> 00:56:22,502 Give me the damn microphone, you daggone bastard. 788 00:56:22,599 --> 00:56:24,569 Get this cracker off my stage. 789 00:56:25,269 --> 00:56:28,341 Let me explain how to hit a baseball. It's a lost art. 790 00:56:29,173 --> 00:56:32,513 Ever since that half-nigger Babe Ruth started hitting home runs... 791 00:56:32,577 --> 00:56:35,616 the skill, art and science of it have been lost. 792 00:56:36,081 --> 00:56:37,750 Let's say, for example... 793 00:56:51,697 --> 00:56:54,102 - Tom Collins? - Coming right up, Joanna. 794 00:57:11,785 --> 00:57:12,954 It's you again. 795 00:57:13,020 --> 00:57:15,992 Hey, I didn't get your friend's name. Who is that? 796 00:57:16,056 --> 00:57:17,993 That is Ty Cobb. 797 00:57:18,626 --> 00:57:21,063 The greatest baseball player of all time. 798 00:57:21,396 --> 00:57:23,967 Baseball, shmaseball he should have been a dancer. 799 00:57:24,031 --> 00:57:26,836 Gotta tell you, the guy likes to lead. So hard to follow. 800 00:57:26,901 --> 00:57:30,108 I haven't been spun around like that for I don't know how long. 801 00:57:30,171 --> 00:57:31,506 You and me both. 802 00:57:35,376 --> 00:57:37,581 You are a beautiful woman. 803 00:57:38,179 --> 00:57:41,753 It's the wig. Goddamn thing itches but it's good for tips. 804 00:57:41,817 --> 00:57:43,988 Give me a little scratch, will you? 805 00:57:44,553 --> 00:57:45,822 Little faster. 806 00:57:46,823 --> 00:57:48,158 Very nice. 807 00:57:48,357 --> 00:57:50,995 Artie, another round. On him. 808 00:57:51,126 --> 00:57:53,264 Ramona, you're still on the clock. 809 00:57:53,430 --> 00:57:54,565 We have rules here. 810 00:57:54,630 --> 00:57:57,536 You can't sit next to your hair. Sit under your hair. 811 00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,203 Gotta put your wig on. 812 00:57:59,336 --> 00:58:03,110 My follicles need to breathe, and my shift is over. 813 00:58:05,108 --> 00:58:07,746 It's crooked. Your wig's crooked. It's tilted too much. 814 00:58:07,811 --> 00:58:11,050 - If you pick it up over the eyebrow- - Does it bother you? 815 00:58:11,147 --> 00:58:12,718 No, not at all. 816 00:58:13,517 --> 00:58:14,785 I like it. 817 00:58:15,586 --> 00:58:18,893 I suppose you want to take me to bed. Is that right? 818 00:58:23,828 --> 00:58:25,197 You want money? 819 00:58:26,598 --> 00:58:29,236 I'm not a whore. I don't know what you take me for. 820 00:58:29,301 --> 00:58:32,340 - That's one of the most insulting things- - I'm sorry. 821 00:58:33,405 --> 00:58:35,408 I'm not very good at this. Let me start over. 822 00:58:35,474 --> 00:58:38,213 My name is Al Stump. I'm a writer. I'm here on assignment. 823 00:58:38,276 --> 00:58:41,316 - Divorced? - Not yet. 824 00:58:42,047 --> 00:58:43,717 What a stupid answer. 825 00:58:43,782 --> 00:58:45,953 - Is it that obvious? - It's written all over you. 826 00:58:46,018 --> 00:58:47,921 If you want to pay me to screw, I won't. 827 00:58:47,987 --> 00:58:49,290 - Then I won't. - Pay or screw? 828 00:58:49,355 --> 00:58:50,924 - Whatever. - You don't wanna screw? 829 00:58:50,991 --> 00:58:52,526 - I do. - All this ambiguity. 830 00:58:52,592 --> 00:58:54,329 I see why she's divorcing you. 831 00:58:54,394 --> 00:58:58,101 I don't know what I am doing. I'm just trying to speak my heart. 832 00:58:59,132 --> 00:59:02,104 I asked my wife for a divorce. She said, "Okay." 833 00:59:02,168 --> 00:59:03,804 Now I'm thinking, maybe I don't. 834 00:59:03,870 --> 00:59:05,640 - Then go back to her. - No. 835 00:59:05,906 --> 00:59:07,542 Then quit crying. 836 00:59:08,075 --> 00:59:10,145 You want a divorce, you don't want a divorce? 837 00:59:10,210 --> 00:59:14,352 You're asking marital advice from a woman you're trying to get in the sack. 838 00:59:14,415 --> 00:59:17,388 I'm sorry. I gotta apologize. I'm really not myself. 839 00:59:17,452 --> 00:59:18,654 Who is? 840 00:59:20,388 --> 00:59:23,360 This assignment has got me totally befuddled. 841 00:59:23,525 --> 00:59:26,264 Am I to tell the world that this monster is a prince? 842 00:59:26,327 --> 00:59:28,065 Am I just supposed to lie? 843 00:59:28,130 --> 00:59:30,300 - You getting paid? - Very well. 844 00:59:30,799 --> 00:59:32,836 Then it's not a lie. It's a job. 845 00:59:33,101 --> 00:59:35,071 Quit agonizing. Take the money. 846 00:59:35,137 --> 00:59:36,966 Do what you gotta do, and get it over with. 847 00:59:36,991 --> 00:59:38,000 I can't. 848 00:59:38,474 --> 00:59:40,077 - Then quit. - I can't. 849 00:59:40,309 --> 00:59:43,816 - For God's sake, why not? - Because he knows greatness. 850 00:59:46,382 --> 00:59:48,319 I wanna learn about greatness. 851 00:59:48,718 --> 00:59:50,488 Greatness is overrated. 852 00:59:54,724 --> 00:59:56,194 Maybe you're right. 853 01:00:00,831 --> 01:00:04,070 I'm sorry I bothered you. I've been a little out of sorts. 854 01:00:05,202 --> 01:00:06,505 See you around. 855 01:00:06,971 --> 01:00:09,041 I'm an expert on out of sorts. 856 01:00:18,416 --> 01:00:21,088 Don't drink too much. 857 01:00:21,219 --> 01:00:24,124 You think I won't be able to screw if I'm too drunk? 858 01:00:24,222 --> 01:00:26,660 Yeah, that crossed my mind. 859 01:00:28,694 --> 01:00:30,130 Screw... 860 01:00:41,140 --> 01:00:43,010 Hey, I love this song. 861 01:00:49,815 --> 01:00:51,987 You are so thoughtful. 862 01:00:54,221 --> 01:00:56,626 The others are trying to get me drunk... 863 01:00:56,890 --> 01:00:59,060 and you're trying to keep me sober. 864 01:01:02,596 --> 01:01:04,700 You'd be good husband material. 865 01:01:08,302 --> 01:01:09,705 Let's dance. 866 01:01:10,604 --> 01:01:12,274 Honey, I was... 867 01:01:16,144 --> 01:01:17,647 Let's dance, Ginger. 868 01:01:18,046 --> 01:01:19,282 Ramona. 869 01:01:42,572 --> 01:01:45,010 Maybe this isn't such a good idea. 870 01:02:00,825 --> 01:02:04,999 You two-timing bastard! You goddamn Judas Iscariot! 871 01:02:05,062 --> 01:02:06,465 You're stealing my girl. 872 01:02:06,531 --> 01:02:08,534 Stop that. She's not your girl. 873 01:02:09,900 --> 01:02:11,371 Are you crazy? 874 01:02:11,836 --> 01:02:13,472 Mr. Stump, are you okay? 875 01:02:15,073 --> 01:02:17,510 You're coming with me, young lady. 876 01:02:18,210 --> 01:02:20,213 Come on here, God damn it! 877 01:02:34,460 --> 01:02:35,629 What's that? 878 01:02:36,229 --> 01:02:37,699 It's my hair. 879 01:02:38,465 --> 01:02:39,767 Put it back on. 880 01:02:46,173 --> 01:02:47,441 That's better. 881 01:02:49,376 --> 01:02:51,046 Who are you again? 882 01:02:54,482 --> 01:02:56,351 I'm the Georgia Peach. 883 01:02:56,684 --> 01:03:00,023 And I have 4,191 base hits... 884 01:03:00,087 --> 01:03:03,260 in 11,429 at-bats... 885 01:03:03,324 --> 01:03:05,829 920 stolen bases... 886 01:03:05,894 --> 01:03:09,133 2,244 runs scored... 887 01:03:09,197 --> 01:03:11,234 and 93 batting records... 888 01:03:11,299 --> 01:03:14,271 and I want you take off every stitch of your clothes. 889 01:03:16,171 --> 01:03:17,541 I don't think so. 890 01:03:24,513 --> 01:03:26,450 That don't scare me. 891 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. 892 01:03:34,557 --> 01:03:36,160 I might like it. 893 01:03:38,428 --> 01:03:40,733 Now you take off them goddamn clothes. 894 01:03:56,848 --> 01:03:58,483 You got big tits? 895 01:03:59,250 --> 01:04:00,853 I like big tits. 896 01:04:02,019 --> 01:04:06,061 Actually they're not so big. They're quite average. 897 01:04:06,491 --> 01:04:09,964 That's the way they stuff these outfits, you know, they just... 898 01:04:11,330 --> 01:04:12,432 build them. 899 01:04:12,832 --> 01:04:15,303 I owe a lot to these wigs and things. 900 01:04:16,034 --> 01:04:18,305 A girl's got to do what she's got to do, you know. 901 01:04:18,370 --> 01:04:19,371 Shut up! 902 01:04:20,773 --> 01:04:22,142 You're shy. 903 01:04:24,210 --> 01:04:25,512 Get on the bed. 904 01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:28,883 Get on that bed. 905 01:04:34,788 --> 01:04:37,159 My God, you're beautiful. 906 01:04:40,761 --> 01:04:41,762 Lay down. 907 01:04:45,266 --> 01:04:46,869 Roll over. 908 01:04:50,504 --> 01:04:53,343 What I could have done with you in my prime. 909 01:04:53,407 --> 01:04:56,313 - I'm sure you could have, Mr. Cobb- - Shut up! 910 01:04:56,911 --> 01:04:58,079 Turn around. 911 01:05:07,689 --> 01:05:10,762 I want you to do exactly what I tell you to do. 912 01:05:27,677 --> 01:05:29,514 Exactly what I say. 913 01:05:31,848 --> 01:05:33,685 $1,ooo. 914 01:05:35,052 --> 01:05:37,256 - Just do what you gotta do. - Shut up! 915 01:05:38,823 --> 01:05:41,460 You take this $1,OOO and you tell everybody you meet... 916 01:05:41,525 --> 01:05:43,963 that you fucked the great Ty Cobb. 917 01:05:44,127 --> 01:05:47,935 And I was the greatest fuck you've ever had in your life. 918 01:05:53,204 --> 01:05:54,573 That's all? 919 01:05:56,842 --> 01:06:00,749 - You want more? I'm a very wealthy man. - No. 920 01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:05,220 - Is that what you want me to do? - Yes, will you do it? 921 01:06:06,285 --> 01:06:07,620 Yeah! 922 01:06:13,993 --> 01:06:18,369 You are looking at a very beautiful woman, you limber son of bitch! 923 01:06:26,039 --> 01:06:27,574 Dead down here. 924 01:06:28,842 --> 01:06:31,647 Damn thing has been like that for two damn years! 925 01:06:31,712 --> 01:06:33,214 Nothing! Dead! 926 01:06:39,286 --> 01:06:41,391 Get the goddamn hell out of here. 927 01:06:52,734 --> 01:06:55,940 "Georgia Peach," my ass. Georgia trash is what he is. 928 01:06:56,004 --> 01:06:57,407 Are you all right? 929 01:07:02,177 --> 01:07:05,049 That was the best piece of ass I ever had. 930 01:07:05,180 --> 01:07:07,752 God almighty, what a beautiful girl! 931 01:07:13,689 --> 01:07:17,229 Have we missed the testimonial dinner? We got to get up and go. 932 01:07:17,293 --> 01:07:18,762 No, it's okay. 933 01:07:19,896 --> 01:07:21,331 Just lie down. 934 01:07:21,397 --> 01:07:23,802 We'll go to the testimonial dinner. 935 01:07:25,334 --> 01:07:27,105 Got to get up and go, Stump. 936 01:07:27,170 --> 01:07:29,275 I wouldn't miss it for the world. 937 01:07:34,078 --> 01:07:35,981 That night I made a decision. 938 01:07:37,281 --> 01:07:39,118 I decided to tell the truth. 939 01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:51,264 I also made another decision. 940 01:07:52,030 --> 01:07:54,200 I was gonna stay with him and finish the book... 941 01:07:54,265 --> 01:07:56,069 no matter where he took me. 942 01:08:03,375 --> 01:08:05,847 I began working on two manuscripts. 943 01:08:05,911 --> 01:08:08,516 One was his version, My Life in Baseball. 944 01:08:08,581 --> 01:08:09,749 How to steal second base... 945 01:08:09,816 --> 01:08:12,453 or how to hit the breaking ball to the opposite field. 946 01:08:12,518 --> 01:08:14,388 It contained nothing about his parents. 947 01:08:14,453 --> 01:08:16,991 It contained nothing about his children and ex-wives... 948 01:08:17,056 --> 01:08:18,726 none of whom would even speak to him. 949 01:08:18,791 --> 01:08:22,599 It contained no insights from his friends because I couldn't find any. 950 01:08:35,409 --> 01:08:37,981 It was a baseball book. I kept it in the typewriter... 951 01:08:38,045 --> 01:08:39,983 for him to discover and amend. 952 01:08:40,381 --> 01:08:42,853 It was a book I never planned to publish. 953 01:08:44,252 --> 01:08:46,055 The second book, my book... 954 01:08:46,154 --> 01:08:48,926 was written on legal pads and hotel stationery... 955 01:08:48,990 --> 01:08:51,762 and cocktail napkins and anything I could scrape together... 956 01:08:51,827 --> 01:08:53,764 without drawing his attention. 957 01:08:59,969 --> 01:09:01,304 Nothing like a cigarette girl... 958 01:09:01,370 --> 01:09:04,209 and 30 hours of sleep to invigorate a man, Stumpy. 959 01:09:05,140 --> 01:09:07,579 You look like shit. What's the matter with you? 960 01:09:07,643 --> 01:09:09,314 I've been writing. 961 01:09:10,613 --> 01:09:12,616 Let's see how we're doing here. 962 01:09:17,153 --> 01:09:19,291 Yes, now you're getting it! 963 01:09:19,356 --> 01:09:23,030 It's none of this Sigmund Freud bullshit, it's baseball. 964 01:09:25,028 --> 01:09:28,268 You understand. People are no damn good, Stump. 965 01:09:29,300 --> 01:09:30,602 But you get it. 966 01:09:31,335 --> 01:09:32,838 And I can trust you. 967 01:09:45,650 --> 01:09:47,854 That's the way it goes, Stumpy. 968 01:09:47,919 --> 01:09:50,291 They boo all your career and when you're dying... 969 01:09:50,355 --> 01:09:52,525 put you on a pedestal. That's being a legend. 970 01:09:52,591 --> 01:09:54,294 - That for the record? - Sure as hell is. 971 01:09:54,359 --> 01:09:56,831 I'm gonna buy in here right now, right there! 972 01:09:56,896 --> 01:09:58,699 Place your bets, folks. New shooter. 973 01:09:58,764 --> 01:10:00,400 Money plays, give me some hot dice... 974 01:10:00,466 --> 01:10:03,138 for the hot hand, we're gonna have a hot table any minute. 975 01:10:03,769 --> 01:10:05,672 Play's five. Mark it. 976 01:10:07,706 --> 01:10:09,077 Hi there, Magic Hands. 977 01:10:09,175 --> 01:10:10,410 Stumpy, what is that? 978 01:10:10,476 --> 01:10:14,150 Joey, two to pass, two to come, two on four the hard way. 979 01:10:15,715 --> 01:10:17,453 I'll be a son of a bitch. 980 01:10:17,717 --> 01:10:18,853 Four! 981 01:10:18,952 --> 01:10:21,290 Very nice, thank you very much. 982 01:10:21,355 --> 01:10:23,793 It's a five. It's a three and a two. Point's five. 983 01:10:23,858 --> 01:10:26,028 My girl go with that nigger? I'll be goddamned. 984 01:10:26,093 --> 01:10:27,863 They're standing next to each other- 985 01:10:27,929 --> 01:10:29,197 Ramona, you with that nigger? 986 01:10:29,263 --> 01:10:32,135 Money placed on the five. Forget it. 987 01:10:32,199 --> 01:10:35,406 - That man is a monster. - Yeah, I know. 988 01:10:35,470 --> 01:10:37,340 Wait, is she with you? 989 01:10:37,772 --> 01:10:42,181 This is my man, Mr. Cobb, and he's all man. 990 01:10:42,444 --> 01:10:46,586 My girl with my nigger. I'll be a goddamned son of a bitch. 991 01:10:46,649 --> 01:10:49,053 You better duck down now, you son of a bitch! 992 01:10:49,117 --> 01:10:50,854 He's got a gun. Get down. 993 01:10:56,893 --> 01:10:58,930 You goddamn yellow-belly. 994 01:11:04,300 --> 01:11:06,037 Do you know who the hell I am? 995 01:11:15,545 --> 01:11:19,085 I told him the testimonial dinner at the Hall of fame was approaching... 996 01:11:19,149 --> 01:11:20,919 even though it was still weeks away. 997 01:11:20,985 --> 01:11:24,124 But at least that news got him away without getting us in jail... 998 01:11:24,188 --> 01:11:25,991 or getting somebody killed. 999 01:11:26,089 --> 01:11:27,793 And as we headed across country... 1000 01:11:27,858 --> 01:11:32,400 Cobb, as usual, was oblivious to the chaos he left in his wake. 1001 01:11:32,731 --> 01:11:35,703 And then this fat ass named Babe Ruth came into the league... 1002 01:11:35,767 --> 01:11:37,804 and near destroyed the game of baseball. 1003 01:11:37,869 --> 01:11:40,641 We thought he'd eat and screw his way out of the league... 1004 01:11:40,706 --> 01:11:42,142 but he hung on for a few years. 1005 01:11:42,208 --> 01:11:43,476 Hung on? 1006 01:11:44,309 --> 01:11:45,946 Come on, Ty. 1007 01:11:46,012 --> 01:11:49,251 The man was the greatest ballplayer, next to you, of all time. 1008 01:11:49,314 --> 01:11:51,218 I mean, he hit 714 home runs. 1009 01:11:51,283 --> 01:11:54,890 Anybody can hit a home run. Now, excuse me, I got work to do. 1010 01:11:54,954 --> 01:11:56,289 Sorry, Ty. 1011 01:11:56,489 --> 01:11:59,695 I didn't care that they loved, cheered, and adored Babe Ruth... 1012 01:11:59,759 --> 01:12:02,331 I did care that they respected his ball playing. 1013 01:12:02,395 --> 01:12:04,365 They built Yankee Stadium for him... 1014 01:12:04,431 --> 01:12:07,103 with a 297-foot right field line. 1015 01:12:07,167 --> 01:12:10,474 My sister, Florence, could hit the ball 297 feet. 1016 01:12:10,538 --> 01:12:13,944 Come on, aren't you gonna give Ruth credit for anything? 1017 01:12:16,109 --> 01:12:18,113 He ran okay for a fat man. 1018 01:12:29,223 --> 01:12:33,064 You know something, Alimony, I think you're the best friend I ever had. 1019 01:12:33,428 --> 01:12:34,730 You're kidding! 1020 01:12:34,796 --> 01:12:37,903 I swear on the Bible, I feel I can trust you now. 1021 01:12:41,036 --> 01:12:42,639 And he kept talking. 1022 01:12:42,705 --> 01:12:44,909 The gospel according to Ty Cobb. 1023 01:12:44,974 --> 01:12:47,546 Baseball is a red-blooded sport, for red-blooded men. 1024 01:12:47,610 --> 01:12:50,449 It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out of it. 1025 01:12:50,513 --> 01:12:54,087 It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. 1026 01:12:54,183 --> 01:12:57,423 I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me. 1027 01:12:57,487 --> 01:13:00,727 But I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch. 1028 01:13:00,924 --> 01:13:02,994 The problem with baseball today is that... 1029 01:13:03,059 --> 01:13:07,168 the players are in it for the money rather than the love and fun of it. 1030 01:13:07,231 --> 01:13:09,134 At the age of 22... 1031 01:13:09,300 --> 01:13:12,272 I sunk some dough into a little beverage outfit in Georgia... 1032 01:13:12,336 --> 01:13:15,843 dash, turned into Coca-Cola. Period. 1033 01:13:16,340 --> 01:13:18,945 At 24, I sunk some dough... 1034 01:13:19,010 --> 01:13:21,281 in a couple of automobile companies in Detroit... 1035 01:13:21,346 --> 01:13:25,387 dash, turned into General Motors. Period. 1036 01:13:26,851 --> 01:13:28,889 The money piled up like... 1037 01:13:29,755 --> 01:13:31,090 base hits... 1038 01:13:34,126 --> 01:13:36,129 and it's still piling up. 1039 01:13:37,330 --> 01:13:40,669 A ballplayer loses a step the older he gets... 1040 01:13:40,732 --> 01:13:43,171 dash... No, semicolon... 1041 01:13:44,203 --> 01:13:46,273 a man of finance gains one. 1042 01:13:46,339 --> 01:13:48,777 Period, double space, new paragraph. 1043 01:13:48,842 --> 01:13:52,683 Chapter 7 will be called "Me and Napoleon Lajoie." 1044 01:13:54,213 --> 01:13:56,985 - How you doing, Stump? - Great, fine. 1045 01:13:57,217 --> 01:13:59,154 - Semicolon is very good. - Good. 1046 01:14:04,257 --> 01:14:06,528 During the day we worked on his book... 1047 01:14:06,594 --> 01:14:08,263 at night I worked on mine. 1048 01:14:08,328 --> 01:14:10,466 I was drinking like a fish, smoking too much... 1049 01:14:10,531 --> 01:14:14,405 and by writing two versions, I was becoming something Cobb was not: 1050 01:14:14,468 --> 01:14:16,039 I was becoming a liar. 1051 01:14:16,104 --> 01:14:17,406 Fabulous stuff. 1052 01:14:17,471 --> 01:14:21,546 - Stumpy, just brilliant. You're a genius. - Thank you, sir. 1053 01:14:22,443 --> 01:14:24,681 Damn, I love reading about me. 1054 01:14:26,181 --> 01:14:28,452 Hey, what the hell is that out there? 1055 01:14:29,284 --> 01:14:32,457 I'm trying to work in here, you noisy son of a bitch! 1056 01:14:32,521 --> 01:14:35,627 I'd appreciate a little goddamn peace and quiet. 1057 01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:40,197 Try that on, you noisy sons of bitches! 1058 01:14:40,262 --> 01:14:41,898 I'm paying good money to stay here... 1059 01:14:41,964 --> 01:14:44,402 and these noisy people are raising all kinds of hell. 1060 01:14:44,467 --> 01:14:45,869 I can't get any work done. 1061 01:14:45,935 --> 01:14:48,640 Stumpy, take care of this for me. 1062 01:14:48,705 --> 01:14:51,744 - It's okay, no problem. - It's not okay. 1063 01:14:53,009 --> 01:14:55,614 It's okay. Thought it was a prowler, that's all. 1064 01:14:56,379 --> 01:14:58,349 We're leaving. Nobody's hurt. 1065 01:14:58,415 --> 01:15:00,051 Everything's fine. 1066 01:15:07,258 --> 01:15:09,662 Soon, I knew more about his drugs than he did. 1067 01:15:09,727 --> 01:15:12,867 Whatever bizarre cocktails of morphine, or lithium, or insulin... 1068 01:15:12,931 --> 01:15:15,503 I helped inject into his bloodstream full of bourbon... 1069 01:15:15,567 --> 01:15:17,938 somehow they always revived him. 1070 01:15:25,410 --> 01:15:28,817 Somewhere along the way, I'd gone from biographer to stenographer... 1071 01:15:28,881 --> 01:15:30,516 to chauffeur to nurse. 1072 01:15:30,583 --> 01:15:32,987 I was the only thing keeping the bastard alive... 1073 01:15:33,051 --> 01:15:34,855 and I kept hoping he'd die. 1074 01:15:37,190 --> 01:15:39,427 You know something, Stumpy? 1075 01:15:40,460 --> 01:15:43,834 With a friend like you, I could go on forever. 1076 01:16:24,172 --> 01:16:26,277 You're gonna see some great athletes... 1077 01:16:26,342 --> 01:16:29,881 great men, great warriors at this Hall of Fame dinner, Stumpy. 1078 01:16:29,945 --> 01:16:32,583 You ain't gonna see no modern, pansy-ass bullshit. 1079 01:16:32,648 --> 01:16:35,387 No, I've been looking forward to this for a long time. 1080 01:16:35,451 --> 01:16:38,724 You fucking liar. You've been hoping I'd die first. 1081 01:16:38,788 --> 01:16:41,627 - You've got me all wrong. - I got you right. 1082 01:16:42,326 --> 01:16:43,861 But it's all right... 1083 01:16:44,193 --> 01:16:45,829 'cause I need your help. 1084 01:16:49,499 --> 01:16:51,002 See who that is. 1085 01:16:55,606 --> 01:16:58,010 - May I help you? - Cobb here? 1086 01:16:59,142 --> 01:17:02,015 - May I ask why? - I'm Mickey Cochrane. 1087 01:17:04,815 --> 01:17:05,883 Come on in. 1088 01:17:05,950 --> 01:17:07,988 Ty, it's Mickey Cochrane. 1089 01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:10,823 Where's your goddamn tuxedo? 1090 01:17:10,889 --> 01:17:12,892 - I don't have one. - I sent you money for it. 1091 01:17:12,957 --> 01:17:15,596 - It didn't arrive. - Bullshit, you drank it up. 1092 01:17:16,862 --> 01:17:19,801 Can't have you going to the Hall of Fame looking like that. 1093 01:17:19,865 --> 01:17:22,070 Things have been rough, Ty. 1094 01:17:22,234 --> 01:17:24,338 Don't complain and don't explain. 1095 01:17:24,770 --> 01:17:27,408 Here, please go buy yourself a tuxedo. 1096 01:17:30,076 --> 01:17:31,479 Stores are closed. 1097 01:17:31,544 --> 01:17:35,551 How could you be so good behind the plate and so bad everywhere else? 1098 01:17:35,615 --> 01:17:37,285 You broke-dick old bastard. 1099 01:17:37,350 --> 01:17:40,189 Do I have to do everything in this goddamn league? 1100 01:17:44,792 --> 01:17:45,960 Hello, operator. 1101 01:17:46,026 --> 01:17:48,731 Who's got the best men's store in Cooperstown, New York? 1102 01:17:48,929 --> 01:17:52,336 I tell you what. Get him on the telephone for me at his house. 1103 01:17:52,900 --> 01:17:55,973 Hello, Jack, this is Ty Cobb. Yes, sir. 1104 01:17:56,670 --> 01:17:59,475 I'll tell you what you can do. You go down to your store... 1105 01:17:59,540 --> 01:18:03,247 open it up, you sell a tuxedo to the great Mickey Cochrane. 1106 01:18:03,678 --> 01:18:07,552 And while you're at it, get him a cummerbund, new shirt, bow tie... 1107 01:18:07,616 --> 01:18:09,987 set of studs, and a set of cufflinks... 1108 01:18:10,051 --> 01:18:13,224 and a bottle of cologne 'cause the son of a bitch stinks. 1109 01:18:13,422 --> 01:18:14,992 I don't know. He might have had one. 1110 01:18:15,057 --> 01:18:16,760 It's a joke. 1111 01:18:17,359 --> 01:18:18,527 What's that? 1112 01:18:19,328 --> 01:18:20,731 Sure do thank you. 1113 01:18:27,837 --> 01:18:30,742 Mickey, you gotta put forth a better effort. 1114 01:18:31,441 --> 01:18:33,244 - Here. - Thanks, Ty. 1115 01:18:35,578 --> 01:18:38,083 It was a great pleasure meeting you. 1116 01:18:39,683 --> 01:18:42,722 He's lost, Stump. Fastball to the head. 1117 01:18:43,687 --> 01:18:45,290 That poor man is lost. 1118 01:18:46,056 --> 01:18:47,426 You support him? 1119 01:18:47,859 --> 01:18:49,695 And I have for years. 1120 01:18:51,061 --> 01:18:52,899 It's not gonna go in your book though. 1121 01:18:52,964 --> 01:18:55,869 - But why not? - Because it would embarrass him. 1122 01:18:56,033 --> 01:18:58,638 I don't wanna take that cane tonight. 1123 01:18:59,304 --> 01:19:00,839 You've got to have your cane. 1124 01:19:00,905 --> 01:19:03,477 I don't have to have anything. You'll help me out. 1125 01:19:03,541 --> 01:19:06,546 In case I wobble, something like that, you put a hand here... 1126 01:19:06,611 --> 01:19:09,550 you keep me upright, I'm gonna be all right. 1127 01:19:10,482 --> 01:19:11,751 I'll be there. 1128 01:19:16,889 --> 01:19:18,158 How do I look? 1129 01:19:22,395 --> 01:19:25,134 Like the greatest ballplayer of all time. 1130 01:19:29,802 --> 01:19:32,542 The great left-handed pitcher from the New York Giants... 1131 01:19:32,605 --> 01:19:36,847 who struck out five men in a row in the 1934 All-Star game: 1132 01:19:36,910 --> 01:19:39,115 Carl Hubbell, ladies and gentlemen. 1133 01:19:39,346 --> 01:19:41,283 Welcome "The Meal Ticket." 1134 01:19:42,582 --> 01:19:45,321 The great third baseman from the National League: 1135 01:19:45,385 --> 01:19:48,224 Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor. 1136 01:19:49,890 --> 01:19:51,360 Mr. Double X... 1137 01:19:51,526 --> 01:19:54,031 the great star of the Philadelphia Athletics: 1138 01:19:54,095 --> 01:19:55,630 Mr. Jimmie Foxx. 1139 01:19:57,198 --> 01:19:59,836 Paul and Lloyd Waner. 1140 01:20:00,134 --> 01:20:02,072 And, ladies and gentlemen... 1141 01:20:02,270 --> 01:20:05,343 the highest lifetime batting average of all time... 1142 01:20:05,441 --> 01:20:07,778 first man elected to the Hall of fame... 1143 01:20:07,842 --> 01:20:10,415 retired with over 90 batting records... 1144 01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:14,788 the one and only Georgia Peach, Ty Cobb. 1145 01:20:23,359 --> 01:20:24,662 Mr. Cobb? 1146 01:20:26,829 --> 01:20:29,100 - Stump. - I got you. 1147 01:20:33,103 --> 01:20:35,675 - Mr. Cobb, good to see you again. - How do you do? 1148 01:20:35,739 --> 01:20:37,709 One more shot, Mr. Cobb. 1149 01:21:05,004 --> 01:21:06,841 Good to see you, Lloyd. 1150 01:21:07,607 --> 01:21:10,178 Sam Crawford, Cobb, long time no see. 1151 01:21:10,242 --> 01:21:12,580 Sam, it's good to see you. You doing all right? 1152 01:21:12,645 --> 01:21:14,014 I'm still alive. 1153 01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,651 We're gonna have a hell of a party this evening. 1154 01:21:16,715 --> 01:21:18,319 Big parties, Peach. 1155 01:21:19,619 --> 01:21:21,422 How you doing? You're looking good. 1156 01:21:21,487 --> 01:21:23,959 Rogers, I look like hell, you know it. 1157 01:21:24,423 --> 01:21:26,462 Stumpy, I want you to meet Rogers Hornsby... 1158 01:21:26,527 --> 01:21:29,031 next to me, the greatest hitter of all time. 1159 01:21:29,095 --> 01:21:30,798 - How do you do? - Next to me. 1160 01:21:31,698 --> 01:21:33,068 We'll tear them up good. 1161 01:21:33,134 --> 01:21:34,603 Nice to see you again. 1162 01:21:34,668 --> 01:21:37,673 Let's get this son of a bitch on the road. 1163 01:21:41,308 --> 01:21:43,613 - Nice to see you again, Ty. - Good to see you. 1164 01:21:43,678 --> 01:21:46,249 Welcome to Cooperstown, ladies and gentlemen. 1165 01:21:46,814 --> 01:21:50,955 We are here to acknowledge the greatest ballplayers of all time. 1166 01:21:51,919 --> 01:21:54,992 But the greatest of all is with us tonight. 1167 01:21:55,456 --> 01:21:58,897 Simply put, the best ballplayer ever: 1168 01:21:59,761 --> 01:22:01,565 Tyrus Raymond Cobb. 1169 01:22:13,209 --> 01:22:18,085 We've gathered from the archives some special film on Mr. Cobb. 1170 01:22:18,748 --> 01:22:19,983 Lights, please. 1171 01:22:20,049 --> 01:22:23,021 This 1916 portrait shows us Ty Cobb... 1172 01:22:23,087 --> 01:22:26,626 in his Detroit Tigers uniform. The Georgia Peach. 1173 01:22:26,857 --> 01:22:30,330 Note the smug expression and the haunting set of eyes. 1174 01:22:30,527 --> 01:22:35,169 These disturbing eyes can be seen in the earliest photo ever taken of young Ty. 1175 01:22:35,833 --> 01:22:38,605 Turn the clock back to the beginning of the century. 1176 01:22:38,669 --> 01:22:42,209 At that time, professional baseball was a casual game. 1177 01:22:42,340 --> 01:22:44,577 Ballplayers were often clowns... 1178 01:22:44,642 --> 01:22:47,915 but young Ty Cobb would have none of that. 1179 01:22:47,979 --> 01:22:50,416 He turned the game into war... 1180 01:22:50,616 --> 01:22:54,290 and in the process, invented the modern game as we know it. 1181 01:22:54,986 --> 01:22:58,760 The aggressive, attacking game was virtually Cobb's invention. 1182 01:22:58,823 --> 01:23:01,997 Here, we see him running over a first sacker on a drag bunt... 1183 01:23:02,061 --> 01:23:03,463 a play he perfected. 1184 01:23:03,528 --> 01:23:06,201 That's him. He'd take on the whole team. 1185 01:23:06,265 --> 01:23:09,037 Jimmie, that's the way we used to play ball. 1186 01:23:09,535 --> 01:23:12,308 You don't find these children playing ball like that today. 1187 01:23:12,372 --> 01:23:15,411 Here, we see Cobb with one of his five children. 1188 01:23:15,475 --> 01:23:18,080 That's Shirley. You remember Shirley? 1189 01:23:18,278 --> 01:23:20,615 She's a big girl now. 1190 01:23:21,514 --> 01:23:25,589 I love that house, Stump. Stump, we gotta go see that house. 1191 01:23:25,919 --> 01:23:29,793 And here, he shows his son his curious hands-apart grip. 1192 01:23:29,890 --> 01:23:33,097 Though he was unable to teach his flaming, competitive heart. 1193 01:23:33,227 --> 01:23:35,064 Here, the pitcher makes the mistake... 1194 01:23:35,129 --> 01:23:39,270 - Stumpy, what in the hell is that? - Why? It's a great film. 1195 01:23:39,333 --> 01:23:41,403 Look, there he goes, watch this! 1196 01:23:41,703 --> 01:23:42,771 It's great! 1197 01:23:42,837 --> 01:23:45,174 And 54 times in his whole career. 1198 01:23:45,440 --> 01:23:48,379 No base runner has ever approached these records. 1199 01:23:48,710 --> 01:23:50,981 - Stealing home there. - Yeah, I saw that- 1200 01:23:51,046 --> 01:23:53,417 The first celebrity athlete in American history. 1201 01:23:53,482 --> 01:23:55,052 Movie stars and presidents... 1202 01:23:55,117 --> 01:23:58,156 - What the hell is that? - There you are with your buddy, Babe. 1203 01:23:58,220 --> 01:24:02,228 Here, Cobb poses with his great archrival, the legendary Babe Ruth. 1204 01:24:02,358 --> 01:24:03,727 You and the Babe. 1205 01:24:24,015 --> 01:24:27,488 However, Cobb's public posturing as a family man... 1206 01:24:27,551 --> 01:24:29,622 was just that, posturing. 1207 01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:34,195 Here, he discovers that his wife has hidden some of his precious liquor... 1208 01:24:34,258 --> 01:24:36,529 and she pays the price. 1209 01:24:39,064 --> 01:24:42,103 The allegations of wife-beating were legion. 1210 01:24:42,167 --> 01:24:45,039 Her attempts to divorce Cobb were met with more beatings... 1211 01:24:45,103 --> 01:24:47,340 until, after years of brutal marriage... 1212 01:24:47,405 --> 01:24:51,012 she was granted divorce due to extreme mental cruelty. 1213 01:24:54,713 --> 01:24:56,917 With Cobb's vast fortunes and influence... 1214 01:24:56,983 --> 01:25:01,191 he was able to keep this private part of his brutal nature completely quiet... 1215 01:25:01,254 --> 01:25:05,463 building, instead, a heroic public image as a fierce warrior. 1216 01:25:11,030 --> 01:25:13,201 Get your ass on up here, you half-assed nigger! 1217 01:25:13,267 --> 01:25:15,237 Get up here! Come on! 1218 01:25:15,502 --> 01:25:19,443 In a famous incident in 1912, Cobb attacked a heckler... 1219 01:25:19,506 --> 01:25:21,677 who turned out to have no hands. 1220 01:25:21,876 --> 01:25:24,715 He was briefly suspended for the incident. 1221 01:25:27,382 --> 01:25:30,121 In a shocking development in 1926... 1222 01:25:30,184 --> 01:25:33,224 Cobb and Tris Speaker were accused of fixing games... 1223 01:25:33,288 --> 01:25:35,325 by pitcher Dutch Leonard. 1224 01:25:36,490 --> 01:25:37,827 Is that the fix? 1225 01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:42,567 Credence to these charges was given by Cobb's notorious friendship... 1226 01:25:42,631 --> 01:25:45,236 with numerous unsavory gamblers. 1227 01:25:45,367 --> 01:25:48,673 And even though Judge Landis curiously acquitted Cobb... 1228 01:25:48,737 --> 01:25:51,476 questions still remained about his guilt. 1229 01:25:51,540 --> 01:25:54,980 Cobb later told friends that he had enough damaging information... 1230 01:25:55,044 --> 01:25:57,382 on other players involved in fixes... 1231 01:25:57,447 --> 01:26:00,753 that Landis acquitted Cobb in order to keep him quiet. 1232 01:26:02,952 --> 01:26:06,459 Cobb and his friends were well known for booze and sex parties... 1233 01:26:06,522 --> 01:26:08,526 they had in the off-season. 1234 01:26:08,591 --> 01:26:10,027 Parties called "smokers"... 1235 01:26:10,093 --> 01:26:12,230 which took place in various hunting cabins... 1236 01:26:12,295 --> 01:26:13,598 they filled with hookers... 1237 01:26:13,664 --> 01:26:16,669 many of whom were his guests at the ballpark. 1238 01:26:44,029 --> 01:26:46,434 And in one of the most disturbing incidents... 1239 01:26:46,499 --> 01:26:49,504 Cobb chased a man he said had accosted him... 1240 01:26:49,568 --> 01:26:53,008 and pistol-whipped him to death, leaving him to die in an alley. 1241 01:26:53,072 --> 01:26:55,410 Though Cobb bragged about this among friends... 1242 01:26:55,475 --> 01:26:58,047 the incident was hushed up and forgotten. 1243 01:27:00,380 --> 01:27:03,987 Stumpy, he tried to rob me. He tried to take the money out of my pocket. 1244 01:27:04,050 --> 01:27:06,522 What? It's just you in your Philadelphia uniform. 1245 01:27:09,856 --> 01:27:11,359 Playing for Mr. Mack now. 1246 01:27:12,559 --> 01:27:15,899 Near the end of his career, Cobb joined the Philadelphia Athletics... 1247 01:27:15,963 --> 01:27:17,365 and at the age of 41... 1248 01:27:17,431 --> 01:27:19,201 What do you see now? 1249 01:27:19,967 --> 01:27:22,505 You in your Philadelphia uniform. You look good. 1250 01:27:22,670 --> 01:27:26,077 "If a man can't hit better than that, he ought to quit." 1251 01:27:26,708 --> 01:27:29,547 Whether hitting a home run, as shown here... 1252 01:27:29,844 --> 01:27:32,249 See, he can hit home runs with the best of them. 1253 01:27:32,313 --> 01:27:34,886 To all fields or running the bases... 1254 01:27:34,950 --> 01:27:37,087 I hit them home runs if I had to. 1255 01:27:37,586 --> 01:27:41,961 Ty Cobb dominated the game as no man ever had. 1256 01:27:42,358 --> 01:27:46,867 Yes, ladies and gentlemen, what a ballplayer! 1257 01:27:49,999 --> 01:27:52,938 Let's all stand up for the Peach. You're the best. 1258 01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:20,435 - You sure you're up for this? - 203, I used to hunt and fish... 1259 01:28:20,498 --> 01:28:24,940 with Rogers Hornsby all over north Georgia, lower Alabama, everywhere he'd think of. 1260 01:28:25,403 --> 01:28:27,508 I appreciate loyalty in a friend. 1261 01:28:29,140 --> 01:28:32,747 - You sure you're up for this? - I've never been readier in my life! 1262 01:28:34,780 --> 01:28:36,783 - Rogers! - You ain't coming in here. 1263 01:28:36,848 --> 01:28:39,687 - It's me and Stump! - You bastard, you ain't coming in. 1264 01:28:39,752 --> 01:28:41,588 - Who's in there? - Me, Mickey, some broads. 1265 01:28:41,654 --> 01:28:43,624 Let me talk to Mickey. Let me see Mickey. 1266 01:28:43,689 --> 01:28:46,962 How are you doing, Mick? You look good in that tuxedo. 1267 01:28:47,026 --> 01:28:50,500 I can't let you in. This is Rogers' party. I'm just an invited guest. 1268 01:28:50,563 --> 01:28:53,201 God damn it, let me in! Wait a minute! 1269 01:28:54,334 --> 01:28:56,171 Open the goddamn door! 1270 01:28:57,671 --> 01:29:00,910 Let me in. Open up the goddamn door! 1271 01:29:00,974 --> 01:29:03,579 It's okay, let's just go back to the motel. 1272 01:29:03,604 --> 01:29:04,905 To hell with you! 1273 01:29:05,412 --> 01:29:09,287 I invented the goddamn game of baseball! Open the door! 1274 01:29:13,354 --> 01:29:15,291 You sons of bitches! 1275 01:29:22,163 --> 01:29:25,203 You sons of bitches! I fought for players' rights... 1276 01:29:25,267 --> 01:29:28,539 when you motherfuckers were crawling on your hands and knees... 1277 01:29:28,603 --> 01:29:30,774 begging the master for a job! 1278 01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:34,847 Begging master for breadcrumbs and you can't hear me now! 1279 01:29:37,513 --> 01:29:39,650 - Let's go home. - Let me in there! 1280 01:29:39,748 --> 01:29:42,121 A ballplayer can make big money... 1281 01:29:42,185 --> 01:29:44,722 but you motherfuckers are too stupid! 1282 01:29:45,088 --> 01:29:48,027 You're all too stupid! Open the goddamn door! 1283 01:29:51,562 --> 01:29:53,666 - You're okay? - Take me back to the Hall! 1284 01:29:53,730 --> 01:29:56,034 - You sure? - You know where the Hall is? 1285 01:29:56,132 --> 01:29:57,134 Sure. 1286 01:29:59,803 --> 01:30:01,106 This way. 1287 01:30:02,472 --> 01:30:05,478 - I appreciate your coming. - For Mr. Cobb, no problem. 1288 01:30:33,940 --> 01:30:37,246 Stumpy, what did you see on that film there tonight? 1289 01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:43,919 - I saw Ty Cobb playing baseball. - Is that all? 1290 01:30:45,084 --> 01:30:46,085 Is that all? 1291 01:30:49,189 --> 01:30:50,591 You were the best. 1292 01:30:53,227 --> 01:30:55,497 Save the romance for the book. 1293 01:30:57,632 --> 01:30:59,535 Carry me home to Georgia. 1294 01:31:21,890 --> 01:31:24,595 The book, like Cobb, was almost Finished. 1295 01:31:24,994 --> 01:31:27,198 But he was dying slower than I was writing. 1296 01:31:27,263 --> 01:31:31,605 And like everything else, he viewed it as a competition he was not going to lose. 1297 01:31:32,568 --> 01:31:35,308 To me, we weren't riding to Georgia in a limo... 1298 01:31:35,705 --> 01:31:37,508 we were riding in a hearse. 1299 01:31:40,076 --> 01:31:43,416 "One of my first clear-cut memories is of a buggy... 1300 01:31:43,914 --> 01:31:48,623 "bumping along a red clay road between Commerce and Carnesville, Georgia... 1301 01:31:48,919 --> 01:31:52,125 "with my legs dangling over the tailgate. 1302 01:31:52,222 --> 01:31:56,864 "I was busy winding yarn around a small core ball. 1303 01:31:57,394 --> 01:31:59,165 "It was slow work. 1304 01:31:59,831 --> 01:32:03,337 "And the new kid in town who owned a hittable ball... 1305 01:32:03,702 --> 01:32:07,910 "could overcome social obstacles faster than the boy who didn't." 1306 01:32:10,309 --> 01:32:13,013 - That's damn good. - I put that in there. 1307 01:32:14,679 --> 01:32:16,182 Long time ago, Stumpy. 1308 01:32:19,351 --> 01:32:23,092 - Anything you want me to change? - No, I wouldn't change a word. 1309 01:32:24,390 --> 01:32:27,362 It's the greatest biography ever written, Stump. 1310 01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:29,463 The greatest. 1311 01:32:43,677 --> 01:32:47,251 James, pull over here to the right. Look here, Stump. 1312 01:32:47,881 --> 01:32:49,684 Right up there, James. 1313 01:33:01,696 --> 01:33:05,603 We're here. The fucking sign needs paint. 1314 01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:22,289 My little girl lives right down this way here. James, go right down this street. 1315 01:33:23,986 --> 01:33:25,957 Sure this was the street? 1316 01:33:26,188 --> 01:33:28,459 Down there about a block, James. 1317 01:33:33,195 --> 01:33:35,234 The houses all look alike. 1318 01:33:37,401 --> 01:33:42,043 - When was the last time you saw her? - About 15 years ago. She understands me. 1319 01:33:43,206 --> 01:33:46,446 Right there. There it is, right there. 1320 01:33:47,210 --> 01:33:49,382 No, wait. Damn it! 1321 01:33:55,954 --> 01:33:57,156 Maybe she moved. 1322 01:33:57,221 --> 01:34:00,261 No, she didn't move. It's that one right there, James. 1323 01:34:00,591 --> 01:34:04,165 Right there, number 150, over here on the right. 1324 01:34:11,670 --> 01:34:13,306 There's somebody in the window. 1325 01:34:18,344 --> 01:34:19,512 Is that her? 1326 01:34:30,090 --> 01:34:32,795 Maybe she didn't recognize you. Just wait here. 1327 01:35:23,780 --> 01:35:25,115 You can go. 1328 01:35:27,116 --> 01:35:30,457 - Well? - No, it wasn't her. It's... 1329 01:35:31,355 --> 01:35:32,790 Your daughter moved. 1330 01:35:32,856 --> 01:35:34,492 She used to live there- 1331 01:35:34,558 --> 01:35:37,563 You cocksucking liar. My daughter don't want to see me... 1332 01:35:37,627 --> 01:35:39,365 and you're lying about it. 1333 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? 1334 01:35:44,435 --> 01:35:45,971 Lie about the great Ty Cobb? 1335 01:35:46,037 --> 01:35:48,141 You didn't like the job, why didn't you quit? 1336 01:35:48,205 --> 01:35:49,908 Who else is going to take care of you? 1337 01:35:49,974 --> 01:35:53,281 Don't give me the sob-sister routine. Jesus! 1338 01:35:53,511 --> 01:35:57,652 I listen to your bullshit, I interpret, I find words... 1339 01:35:57,716 --> 01:36:02,357 I give shape, I give life to your bullshit, and you give me nothing! 1340 01:36:03,589 --> 01:36:04,924 Nothing... 1341 01:36:05,524 --> 01:36:06,525 but grief! 1342 01:36:11,464 --> 01:36:15,940 You have never been this close to greatness in your short life. 1343 01:36:16,936 --> 01:36:18,305 And you love it. 1344 01:36:20,774 --> 01:36:22,042 Stop the car. 1345 01:36:22,108 --> 01:36:23,978 Stop the car! Now! 1346 01:36:25,512 --> 01:36:27,148 Stop the car, James. 1347 01:36:29,182 --> 01:36:32,155 Stumpy, you are acting like a 6-year-old child. 1348 01:36:32,653 --> 01:36:34,355 I'll be a striped-ass ape. 1349 01:36:34,421 --> 01:36:36,191 Where are you going? 1350 01:36:38,926 --> 01:36:40,562 Wait here, James. 1351 01:36:42,997 --> 01:36:46,471 - Get back in the car. - Just go on without me. 1352 01:36:47,435 --> 01:36:50,675 - Get back in the damn car- - Go on without me, I don't need you. 1353 01:36:51,205 --> 01:36:54,479 I'd run you down if I was 10, 15, 20 years younger. 1354 01:36:54,876 --> 01:36:57,514 - Come here. - I wish you'd die. 1355 01:36:57,579 --> 01:36:59,149 I will, Stumpy. 1356 01:37:00,349 --> 01:37:02,820 - And go to hell. - I'll do that, too. 1357 01:37:03,285 --> 01:37:05,757 Look how convenient you've made it. 1358 01:37:06,122 --> 01:37:09,696 Of course it was your daughter. She doesn't want anything to do with you. 1359 01:37:09,759 --> 01:37:13,466 - I forgive her. - You forgive her? That's rich! 1360 01:37:13,530 --> 01:37:17,471 We all ought to forgive more. You ought to try it. You're too damn angry. 1361 01:37:17,534 --> 01:37:21,541 Is it the divorce? You gotta let all that go, Stump. 1362 01:37:21,604 --> 01:37:23,474 I love her, I don't want a divorce! 1363 01:37:23,540 --> 01:37:26,680 Of course you do. You're so used to accommodating other people... 1364 01:37:26,743 --> 01:37:29,382 you don't know what the hell you want anymore. 1365 01:37:29,480 --> 01:37:31,283 I don't accommodate anybody. 1366 01:37:33,084 --> 01:37:34,820 No, you sure don't. 1367 01:37:36,187 --> 01:37:38,090 And you have no friends. 1368 01:37:38,222 --> 01:37:41,729 Do you? Who the hell are they, those drunken hacks you hang out with? 1369 01:37:41,793 --> 01:37:44,097 They think they'll write the great American novel... 1370 01:37:44,162 --> 01:37:46,467 but all they're really gonna do is piss and moan... 1371 01:37:46,531 --> 01:37:49,603 and write lousy leads about high school football games. 1372 01:37:49,668 --> 01:37:52,373 What about that little brunette in the courtyard? 1373 01:37:52,437 --> 01:37:55,509 Is she your friend? I understand she fucks everybody. 1374 01:37:55,574 --> 01:37:57,946 She must be everybody's goddamn friend. 1375 01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:02,316 You're something. 1376 01:38:05,451 --> 01:38:07,221 I'm glad we're here. 1377 01:38:07,887 --> 01:38:10,225 I was gonna bring you here anyway. 1378 01:38:11,858 --> 01:38:14,495 And which great Cobb of Georgia would that be? 1379 01:38:14,761 --> 01:38:17,766 Me. Come on, I'll show you something. 1380 01:38:27,842 --> 01:38:31,749 When I die, my mother and father will be brought here... 1381 01:38:32,747 --> 01:38:34,450 and in time... 1382 01:38:34,515 --> 01:38:36,987 my dear sister, Florence, will join us as well. 1383 01:38:37,051 --> 01:38:39,189 The family will be together again. 1384 01:38:40,355 --> 01:38:42,192 - Under one roof? - Yeah. 1385 01:38:43,324 --> 01:38:46,631 That's romantic. You want that in the book? 1386 01:38:47,829 --> 01:38:50,267 I mean, that Ty Cobb brings the family together... 1387 01:38:50,331 --> 01:38:52,169 to enter the gates of heaven whole! 1388 01:38:52,635 --> 01:38:55,941 They're all gonna be here. Yourself, your sister... 1389 01:38:56,004 --> 01:38:59,378 your grandfather who was killed at the fields of Fredericksburg... 1390 01:38:59,442 --> 01:39:00,811 your father, the great man... 1391 01:39:00,877 --> 01:39:03,314 then your mother, who happened to kill your father. 1392 01:39:03,379 --> 01:39:06,753 - Then you've got your kids- - My mother didn't kill my father. 1393 01:39:08,585 --> 01:39:11,891 - What are you talking about? - My father told my mother... 1394 01:39:13,957 --> 01:39:16,162 he was leaving town for the weekend. 1395 01:39:16,927 --> 01:39:21,135 But he came back to the edge of the woods, where he tied up his horse... 1396 01:39:25,770 --> 01:39:30,646 because my father thought my mother was being unfaithful to him. 1397 01:39:31,509 --> 01:39:35,383 He was going to catch my mother with another man. 1398 01:39:53,398 --> 01:39:57,373 She had been married 22 years by the time she was 34... 1399 01:39:58,037 --> 01:40:01,444 and that's how old she was the night he came back. 1400 01:40:17,591 --> 01:40:22,300 And I stood by my mother when she was tried for murder a few months later. 1401 01:40:24,398 --> 01:40:28,139 I said she was noble and true... 1402 01:40:29,637 --> 01:40:32,075 and loved my father completely. 1403 01:40:33,041 --> 01:40:36,113 The whole thing was an accident... 1404 01:40:38,047 --> 01:40:42,622 and she was acquitted, as she should have been... 1405 01:40:43,451 --> 01:40:47,026 because my mother did not kill my father. 1406 01:40:51,327 --> 01:40:53,831 My mother's lover... 1407 01:40:54,063 --> 01:40:55,633 killed my father. 1408 01:41:26,231 --> 01:41:30,639 The last thing my father saw was the face of the man fucking his wife. 1409 01:41:31,736 --> 01:41:33,774 Is that what you wanted to know? 1410 01:41:36,441 --> 01:41:39,380 The only other people who know about it are dead. 1411 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. 1412 01:41:44,817 --> 01:41:47,122 You're the only man I can trust. 1413 01:41:59,899 --> 01:42:01,902 I don't want to be your friend. 1414 01:42:02,436 --> 01:42:04,373 I don't feel sorry for you. 1415 01:42:05,738 --> 01:42:08,679 Your mother's lover blew your father's head off, I don't care. 1416 01:42:08,742 --> 01:42:11,815 You were a prick before it happened, a prick after it happened... 1417 01:42:11,879 --> 01:42:14,250 you've been a prick ever since. 1418 01:42:14,314 --> 01:42:18,156 - And you are a prick now. - Public relations are overrated, Stumpy. 1419 01:42:18,552 --> 01:42:19,821 What are you talking about? 1420 01:42:19,887 --> 01:42:22,860 - You need a drink. Come on in here. - Fuck your drink. 1421 01:42:22,958 --> 01:42:24,660 You're too damn angry. 1422 01:42:24,826 --> 01:42:26,763 You need to let all that go. 1423 01:42:26,828 --> 01:42:29,733 I'm going to tell the world the truth about you, Cobb. 1424 01:42:29,798 --> 01:42:33,272 I'm going to tell them that you hate women, hate Jews, hate niggers. 1425 01:42:33,335 --> 01:42:35,272 Shouldn't use the word "nigger." 1426 01:42:35,437 --> 01:42:37,274 It's racist and demeaning. 1427 01:42:37,639 --> 01:42:39,844 I don't hate women. I'm not good with them. 1428 01:42:39,909 --> 01:42:43,181 That puts me in the same boat with you and every other man I know. 1429 01:42:43,245 --> 01:42:44,915 You treat people like dirt. 1430 01:42:44,981 --> 01:42:48,755 The children of America need heroes. 1431 01:42:49,752 --> 01:42:51,255 You know that. 1432 01:42:51,821 --> 01:42:52,923 Here. 1433 01:42:54,057 --> 01:42:55,192 Come on. 1434 01:43:02,933 --> 01:43:04,201 Attaboy. 1435 01:43:06,670 --> 01:43:08,707 All right, there we go. 1436 01:43:10,007 --> 01:43:13,748 You sit right there for just one minute. 1437 01:43:23,021 --> 01:43:26,094 You're an educated man, Stumpy. Tell me what you think. 1438 01:43:27,526 --> 01:43:30,331 Either my father was inadequate for my mother... 1439 01:43:31,797 --> 01:43:35,804 not the man I thought he was, not a great man, not even a good man... 1440 01:43:37,437 --> 01:43:39,273 or else my mother was trash... 1441 01:43:40,606 --> 01:43:42,176 a common whore. 1442 01:43:43,509 --> 01:43:45,379 It's that simple, isn't it? 1443 01:43:49,315 --> 01:43:52,020 As a boy, I stood in court next to that woman... 1444 01:43:52,452 --> 01:43:54,990 because suddenly I was the man of the house. 1445 01:43:56,222 --> 01:44:00,397 And as I stood steadfastly at her side and heard the jury say "not guilty"... 1446 01:44:00,461 --> 01:44:04,770 I knew that woman had been with another man the night of that killing. 1447 01:44:11,406 --> 01:44:15,045 A man must defend his mother at all times. 1448 01:44:16,778 --> 01:44:18,481 Isn't that right, Al? 1449 01:44:20,816 --> 01:44:23,620 - Am I a fool? - No. 1450 01:44:25,053 --> 01:44:27,525 A man must defend his mother at all times. 1451 01:44:27,590 --> 01:44:29,192 That's what I thought. 1452 01:44:39,035 --> 01:44:40,772 - Al Stump? - In here. 1453 01:44:42,972 --> 01:44:45,644 - Are you Ty Cobb? - You're goddamn right. 1454 01:44:45,908 --> 01:44:47,379 Well, goddamn! 1455 01:44:49,679 --> 01:44:51,249 Mr. Al Stump? 1456 01:44:51,315 --> 01:44:53,085 Goddamn right. 1457 01:44:53,250 --> 01:44:55,989 Man, I've been chasing you all over the country. 1458 01:44:56,687 --> 01:44:58,957 I'm here to serve you papers. 1459 01:45:01,224 --> 01:45:04,265 - What kind of papers? - It's the divorce, Stumpy. 1460 01:45:04,329 --> 01:45:07,568 - I know this routine. - You're being sued for divorce, sir. 1461 01:45:09,367 --> 01:45:11,537 Hold it. My wife and I are still talking. 1462 01:45:11,602 --> 01:45:14,240 Yeah, and what she's saying is, "Fuck you." 1463 01:45:17,509 --> 01:45:20,448 Fuck me. Fuck her. 1464 01:45:24,316 --> 01:45:25,618 Fuck him. 1465 01:45:25,784 --> 01:45:28,356 Wait a minute here, Stumpy. 1466 01:45:31,590 --> 01:45:33,828 - Look out now. - No sudden moves. 1467 01:45:34,594 --> 01:45:36,564 You ain't serving me no papers. 1468 01:45:36,996 --> 01:45:38,866 I'm just doing a job. 1469 01:45:39,632 --> 01:45:41,268 That's not a toy, Al. 1470 01:45:46,472 --> 01:45:48,009 I love my wife. 1471 01:45:48,508 --> 01:45:51,146 We all loved our wives. That's not the point, Stumpy. 1472 01:45:51,211 --> 01:45:52,948 Sure, you'll find somebody else. 1473 01:45:53,013 --> 01:45:56,153 There's a million women out there. Now give me that gun. 1474 01:45:56,317 --> 01:45:59,022 I am not going to accommodate this man! 1475 01:46:00,388 --> 01:46:03,160 You're all mixed up, Al. You'd better let me have that. 1476 01:46:03,257 --> 01:46:07,666 No, you are right. I've been accommodating people my whole life and it stops here. 1477 01:46:08,863 --> 01:46:11,067 You've killed a man. I'll kill a man. 1478 01:46:11,132 --> 01:46:12,268 I'm begging you. 1479 01:46:12,334 --> 01:46:15,473 I got a little baby girl at home, please don't shoot me. 1480 01:46:15,803 --> 01:46:18,109 Don't give me that sob-sister stuff. 1481 01:46:18,573 --> 01:46:21,612 Al, you'd better let me have that pistol. 1482 01:46:22,211 --> 01:46:23,881 No. 1483 01:46:25,080 --> 01:46:27,217 Life's too short to be diplomatic. 1484 01:46:27,350 --> 01:46:30,088 A man's friends don't care what he says or does. 1485 01:46:30,253 --> 01:46:31,922 You're my friend, Ty. 1486 01:46:32,122 --> 01:46:33,824 - You're my friend. - Al, no. 1487 01:46:33,889 --> 01:46:36,127 - You're my friend, Ty. - Al, no. 1488 01:46:36,359 --> 01:46:39,198 Shit. You want a divorce? 1489 01:46:39,262 --> 01:46:41,199 Here's your goddamn divorce. 1490 01:46:48,372 --> 01:46:49,741 He's crazy. 1491 01:46:53,244 --> 01:46:55,281 No wonder she's divorcing him. 1492 01:46:55,345 --> 01:46:56,716 He's crazy! 1493 01:46:57,314 --> 01:46:58,850 You're served, pal. 1494 01:47:16,367 --> 01:47:19,575 - I almost killed a man. - A little drunken excess. 1495 01:47:19,938 --> 01:47:21,541 It's already forgotten. 1496 01:47:22,241 --> 01:47:23,810 I saw nothing. 1497 01:47:24,610 --> 01:47:26,113 Nothing happened. 1498 01:47:26,712 --> 01:47:28,315 Like hell it didn't. 1499 01:47:28,748 --> 01:47:30,383 Al, listen to me. 1500 01:47:30,750 --> 01:47:34,390 If I were to write a biography of the greatest sportswriter of our time... 1501 01:47:34,454 --> 01:47:37,526 I speak now, of course, of the great Al Stump... 1502 01:47:38,192 --> 01:47:40,729 would I include what happened here tonight? 1503 01:47:40,794 --> 01:47:42,364 Attorneys are pigs. 1504 01:47:42,429 --> 01:47:44,867 Divorce attorneys are lower than pigs. 1505 01:47:44,932 --> 01:47:48,071 What happened tonight was private. An intimacy. 1506 01:47:48,468 --> 01:47:51,341 Your business. Our business. Nobody else's. 1507 01:47:51,405 --> 01:47:54,445 It does not belong in a book about greatness. 1508 01:47:54,809 --> 01:47:56,913 Nobody's going to write my biography. 1509 01:47:56,978 --> 01:48:00,651 And when that little brunette in that courtyard brushed against you... 1510 01:48:00,715 --> 01:48:03,454 I know what happened: the warm summer breeze... 1511 01:48:03,518 --> 01:48:07,158 the smell of jasmine, black hair against a white blouse. 1512 01:48:08,490 --> 01:48:10,125 You came to life again. 1513 01:48:11,160 --> 01:48:12,896 Your dick got hard. 1514 01:48:13,795 --> 01:48:17,269 You saw that girl naked the first time, it was more than you could bear. 1515 01:48:17,333 --> 01:48:18,903 That's all right, Al. 1516 01:48:18,968 --> 01:48:21,540 That brunette ain't going in the book, either. 1517 01:48:23,205 --> 01:48:24,474 And now the booze. 1518 01:48:24,541 --> 01:48:26,544 Say Ty Cobb had a drinking problem. 1519 01:48:26,609 --> 01:48:30,216 You can booze me under the table, right now, no problem... 1520 01:48:30,280 --> 01:48:32,817 ain't nobody's goddamn business, either. 1521 01:48:32,883 --> 01:48:36,724 - Okay. I get it- - Ain't going in our book about greatness. 1522 01:48:37,087 --> 01:48:39,257 Then lay down there and go to sleep. 1523 01:48:39,322 --> 01:48:40,925 You look pathetic. 1524 01:48:41,425 --> 01:48:43,729 Come on. Here. Lay down there. 1525 01:48:44,061 --> 01:48:45,697 All right, here we go. 1526 01:48:48,032 --> 01:48:51,505 - Well, she's not everybody's friend. - Yes, sir. 1527 01:48:55,273 --> 01:48:57,143 You're my friend, Ty. 1528 01:49:04,449 --> 01:49:05,952 You're my friend. 1529 01:51:28,635 --> 01:51:31,308 You don't have a point of view, Stumpy. 1530 01:51:32,005 --> 01:51:33,975 You're not worth killing. 1531 01:52:03,706 --> 01:52:04,774 No. 1532 01:52:06,175 --> 01:52:07,444 This can't be. 1533 01:52:08,877 --> 01:52:10,181 Absolutely not. 1534 01:52:19,423 --> 01:52:20,424 Stumpy! 1535 01:52:36,941 --> 01:52:39,646 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 1536 01:52:39,710 --> 01:52:43,185 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 1537 01:52:43,281 --> 01:52:45,184 Give us this day our daily bread. 1538 01:52:45,250 --> 01:52:48,824 And forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass... 1539 01:52:54,560 --> 01:52:55,795 Fuck it. 1540 01:53:08,107 --> 01:53:11,012 This is what it feels like. 1541 01:53:11,243 --> 01:53:14,250 This is what it looks like. 1542 01:53:16,150 --> 01:53:17,619 This is what it is. 1543 01:53:41,643 --> 01:53:44,715 Will you get the Emory Hospital for me, please? 1544 01:54:24,455 --> 01:54:25,456 Peach? 1545 01:54:27,391 --> 01:54:29,261 Fuck. Where'd he fall? 1546 01:54:40,639 --> 01:54:41,640 _y_ 1547 01:54:49,314 --> 01:54:53,356 Dear Alimony, you lying son of a bitch, I'm checking myself into the hospital. 1548 01:54:53,419 --> 01:54:56,291 I think the end is near. Your pal, Ty. 1549 01:55:11,505 --> 01:55:13,709 Excuse me, I'm here to see... 1550 01:55:15,442 --> 01:55:17,512 You call this a hospital? 1551 01:55:18,112 --> 01:55:19,748 Do you know who I am? 1552 01:55:19,814 --> 01:55:22,318 - Him. - Be careful. He's got a gun. 1553 01:55:22,382 --> 01:55:24,153 Yeah, I know. Thanks. 1554 01:55:24,351 --> 01:55:25,721 Please stay back. 1555 01:55:26,954 --> 01:55:29,459 Sir, please. He doesn't want any visitors. Sir! 1556 01:55:30,891 --> 01:55:32,896 Hell, Stumpy, come on in here! 1557 01:55:33,028 --> 01:55:36,434 You won't believe the shit they call food here. You get any sleep? 1558 01:55:38,266 --> 01:55:40,804 I had a hell of a read last night, young man. 1559 01:55:40,869 --> 01:55:42,606 Sir, I need to take some more blood. 1560 01:55:42,671 --> 01:55:45,008 Bring a bucket here. I'll cough up a few pints. 1561 01:55:45,073 --> 01:55:46,109 I have to do it this way. 1562 01:55:46,175 --> 01:55:48,646 - You won't hurt me, will you? - No, sir. 1563 01:55:50,779 --> 01:55:54,687 Jameson, I understand Fisher Body went to $7.25. Buy me 1,OOO shares. 1564 01:55:54,751 --> 01:55:56,955 - You keep your eyes on the Studebaker. - Yes, sir. 1565 01:55:57,020 --> 01:55:58,656 There's a nice piece of ass here. 1566 01:55:58,722 --> 01:56:00,992 You come back later and climb up on the big fella? 1567 01:56:01,057 --> 01:56:03,027 That's against regulations, sir. 1568 01:56:03,092 --> 01:56:04,128 You read the book. 1569 01:56:04,194 --> 01:56:06,665 God damn it, I thought I could trust you. 1570 01:56:07,097 --> 01:56:09,468 I used to read people better than that. 1571 01:56:09,834 --> 01:56:10,936 The book is the truth. 1572 01:56:11,001 --> 01:56:14,107 Truth is a whore, just like you are, and just like my mother was. 1573 01:56:14,171 --> 01:56:15,874 A Mr. Barton is here to see you. 1574 01:56:15,939 --> 01:56:18,278 He says he's the chairman of the board of Coca Cola. 1575 01:56:18,343 --> 01:56:20,914 Tell him to have a Pepsi. I don't have time. 1576 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? 1577 01:56:26,450 --> 01:56:27,821 I have to do it. 1578 01:56:28,319 --> 01:56:29,622 Go right ahead. 1579 01:56:30,655 --> 01:56:34,095 Mr. Cobb, we cannot allow you to have a gun in here. 1580 01:56:34,158 --> 01:56:36,564 Step over here and take it away from me. 1581 01:56:38,564 --> 01:56:39,565 Come on. 1582 01:56:46,171 --> 01:56:47,675 What do we think of Standard Oil? 1583 01:56:47,740 --> 01:56:49,577 Oh, we like Standard Oil, sir. 1584 01:56:49,909 --> 01:56:53,449 Keep your eyes on it. I want 500 shares in that Cincinnati Milling, too. 1585 01:56:53,979 --> 01:56:55,717 My first son was a doctor. 1586 01:56:55,815 --> 01:56:58,620 A hacksaw artist, about like this one right here. 1587 01:56:58,684 --> 01:57:02,125 He died of a brain tumor at 40. Hadn't spoken to me in 15 years. 1588 01:57:02,188 --> 01:57:06,431 Why? 'Cause I'm a shitty parent. Why don't you put that in your book? 1589 01:57:07,160 --> 01:57:08,429 Bad, ain't it? 1590 01:57:09,563 --> 01:57:12,402 I guess I died a lot faster than you could write. 1591 01:57:14,735 --> 01:57:18,209 I don't know which version I'm going to publish. I really don't. 1592 01:57:18,272 --> 01:57:22,681 Damn it. There you go again. Accommodating me when you don't have to. 1593 01:57:22,744 --> 01:57:26,852 Turn around, you son of a bitch! Get out of my goddamn hospital room! 1594 01:57:26,915 --> 01:57:28,251 Right now! 1595 01:57:29,051 --> 01:57:31,054 That's it. Out. Come on. 1596 01:57:35,023 --> 01:57:36,627 You fooled me, Stumpy. 1597 01:57:37,059 --> 01:57:40,699 I didn't think anybody could fool me, but you got it done. 1598 01:57:41,464 --> 01:57:43,099 I thought we were pals. 1599 01:57:43,866 --> 01:57:46,037 I didn't know what I was getting into. 1600 01:57:46,102 --> 01:57:48,239 Shit. Will you stop explaining yourself? 1601 01:57:48,304 --> 01:57:51,343 Stand by your damn convictions. You beat the great Ty Cobb. 1602 01:57:51,407 --> 01:57:54,747 I respect that. But if you're gonna print it, print it all. 1603 01:57:54,811 --> 01:57:57,750 My second son weighed 300 pounds. 1604 01:57:58,415 --> 01:58:01,086 Died in the arms of a whore in Paso Robles, California. 1605 01:58:01,152 --> 01:58:02,921 My other son, I lost all track of him. 1606 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. 1607 01:58:06,690 --> 01:58:10,197 And Ty Cobb can't get it up anymore. Print it all! 1608 01:58:12,497 --> 01:58:14,199 Is there anything you'd like today? 1609 01:58:14,264 --> 01:58:18,307 I want everything back that I took from Bethlehem Steel and I want it all now. 1610 01:58:18,370 --> 01:58:19,739 Right away, sir. 1611 01:58:23,274 --> 01:58:24,811 It's very confusing. 1612 01:58:25,177 --> 01:58:28,416 It's not confusing. It's simple. You won. 1613 01:58:28,481 --> 01:58:30,451 You go ahead and tell the whole wide world... 1614 01:58:30,516 --> 01:58:34,991 that the greatest ballplayer who ever lived was also the greatest bastard. 1615 01:58:35,053 --> 01:58:36,689 Who fucking cares? 1616 01:58:38,357 --> 01:58:42,565 I give you my permission and my blessing! From here on out it's your story! 1617 01:58:57,878 --> 01:58:59,013 I almost forgot. 1618 01:59:00,814 --> 01:59:03,152 I slipped them the old Oska-Fagus. 1619 01:59:03,551 --> 01:59:05,053 Where's my money at? 1620 01:59:05,118 --> 01:59:08,192 Your money's right here, Peach. Next to your gun. 1621 01:59:11,026 --> 01:59:13,730 The desire for glory is not a sin. 1622 01:59:14,395 --> 01:59:16,332 Will you try to remember that? 1623 01:59:18,132 --> 01:59:19,503 Get out of here. 1624 01:59:30,179 --> 01:59:32,583 What about the gun? Did you get it? 1625 01:59:32,915 --> 01:59:34,384 No, I didn't get the gun. 1626 01:59:34,450 --> 01:59:35,451 Come on- 1627 01:59:43,560 --> 01:59:46,299 I gave a few bucks to a local kid to repaint the sign... 1628 01:59:46,362 --> 01:59:48,868 disappeared for a while to finish the manuscripts... 1629 01:59:48,932 --> 01:59:50,969 and to wait for Cobb to die. 1630 01:59:52,903 --> 01:59:55,875 And while I waited, Ernest Hemingway blew his brains out... 1631 01:59:55,939 --> 01:59:57,509 Getty bought Honolulu Oil... 1632 01:59:57,575 --> 01:59:59,145 Coke came out in cans... 1633 01:59:59,210 --> 02:00:02,783 and the brunette in the courtyard ran away with a young lawyer. 1634 02:00:03,314 --> 02:00:05,518 And on July 17, 1961... 1635 02:00:06,150 --> 02:00:08,555 Ty Cobb died quietly in his sleep. 1636 02:00:08,920 --> 02:00:11,959 I don't believe it was quiet, nothing he ever did was quiet... 1637 02:00:12,023 --> 02:00:14,595 but that's what the newspaper writer said... 1638 02:00:14,659 --> 02:00:16,796 and we all know writers never lie. 1639 02:00:23,936 --> 02:00:26,340 To hell and back, can you believe that? 1640 02:00:26,404 --> 02:00:30,313 Audie Murphy! You aren't going to compare Audie Murphy... 1641 02:00:35,815 --> 02:00:37,485 How are you doing? 1642 02:00:39,185 --> 02:00:40,587 Good to see you. 1643 02:00:41,054 --> 02:00:43,492 - How you doing? - I'm doing fine. 1644 02:00:43,557 --> 02:00:46,194 I've got to confess, I missed you guys. 1645 02:00:46,360 --> 02:00:50,067 Tell me, how's the novel coming? Should be about finished, right? 1646 02:00:50,131 --> 02:00:53,103 Actually, I haven't started it yet. I've been kind of busy. 1647 02:00:55,736 --> 02:00:58,541 So tell us. We want to know. What was Cobb like? 1648 02:00:58,606 --> 02:01:01,210 The stories, are they true? Are they exaggerated? 1649 02:01:01,275 --> 02:01:02,911 Was he a monster or a good guy? 1650 02:01:02,977 --> 02:01:05,582 Tell us about Cobb. What kind of a guy was he? 1651 02:01:05,647 --> 02:01:06,749 The truth? 1652 02:01:07,482 --> 02:01:08,952 What was Cobb like? 1653 02:01:11,619 --> 02:01:12,955 You want the truth? 1654 02:01:13,021 --> 02:01:15,291 Come on! Tell us. 1655 02:01:15,523 --> 02:01:16,893 Don't hold out. 1656 02:01:19,362 --> 02:01:20,831 The truth is... 1657 02:01:26,569 --> 02:01:29,174 a prince and a great man has fallen. 1658 02:01:31,140 --> 02:01:33,712 - Absolutely! - All right! 1659 02:01:33,776 --> 02:01:36,181 Tyrus Raymond Cobb! 1660 02:01:38,481 --> 02:01:39,884 To Ty Cobb! 1661 02:01:39,949 --> 02:01:42,989 A misunderstood genius, as genius always is. 1662 02:01:43,087 --> 02:01:44,222 Tell you a great story. 1663 02:01:44,287 --> 02:01:45,824 Guy comes up to him and says: 1664 02:01:45,890 --> 02:01:48,996 "Mr. Cobb, what would you hit against today's pitchers?" 1665 02:01:49,059 --> 02:01:51,329 Cobb looks at him and says, ".290." 1666 02:01:52,530 --> 02:01:56,905 ".290? Your lifetime batting average is .367, you hit over..." 1667 02:01:56,967 --> 02:01:59,505 I published the lie and put the truth in a closet. 1668 02:01:59,570 --> 02:02:01,573 Cobb looks him straight in the eye and goes: 1669 02:02:01,639 --> 02:02:04,979 "Because I'm 72 fucking years old, that's why." 1670 02:02:06,912 --> 02:02:10,986 Cobb left most of his money to his family, whom he had largely destroyed. 1671 02:02:11,049 --> 02:02:13,554 The remainder was used for an education trust fund... 1672 02:02:13,619 --> 02:02:17,093 for poor Georgia children, and to build a hospital in his hometown. 1673 02:02:20,459 --> 02:02:23,732 In death, at last, he was reunited with his parents. 1674 02:02:24,631 --> 02:02:28,438 The man had some deep, unexpressed sorrow I could never know. 1675 02:02:28,768 --> 02:02:31,440 I embraced him, and I hated him. 1676 02:02:32,605 --> 02:02:34,108 Finally I didn't lie... 1677 02:02:34,174 --> 02:02:37,513 so the American children, would have heroes or some such hogwash. 1678 02:02:37,577 --> 02:02:39,615 Finally, I lied for myself. 1679 02:02:40,213 --> 02:02:41,950 I needed him to be a hero. 1680 02:02:43,116 --> 02:02:44,519 It is my weakness. 1681 02:07:04,660 --> 02:07:06,363 A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. 1682 02:07:06,429 --> 02:07:10,871 But you should never grip it at the end if you want balance and control. 1683 02:07:11,034 --> 02:07:13,439 Learn the Fundamentals. 1684 02:07:13,537 --> 02:07:15,807 The game is a science. 1685 02:07:16,606 --> 02:07:19,812 Batting is a mental activity, a study in psychology... 1686 02:07:19,876 --> 02:07:22,916 an observation of little details. 1687 02:07:24,514 --> 02:07:26,952 Every great batter works on the theory... 1688 02:07:27,017 --> 02:07:31,024 that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. 1689 02:07:31,689 --> 02:07:35,229 The batter owns the plate, the pitcher must come to you. 1690 02:07:37,228 --> 02:07:40,802 If John McGraw were a young man, I would have killed him. 1691 02:07:43,134 --> 02:07:45,338 I regret I didn't go to college. 1692 02:07:45,404 --> 02:07:47,908 I feel I should have been a doctor. 1693 02:08:13,233 --> 02:08:15,805 Baseball was 100% of my life. 1689 02:08:16,205 --> 02:08:16,605 134748