the autobiography that Cobb hired him to write and putting his own book out instead. Stump, in turn, gains a grudging respect for the player's legendary intensity and fearsome competitive fire, as well as an understanding that, despite Cobb's denial, the murder of Cobb's father may have been partly responsible for his antagonistic personality. Cobb reveals to Stump that his father's murder was not committed by his mother, but by his mother's lover After a long night of drinking when his own personal life begins to unravel, Stump passes out. Cobb discovers his notes for the no-punches-pulled version, bringing on an epic explosion. Betrayed, Cobb prepares to shoot himself with one of his guns when he suddenly begins to cough up blood and is taken to a hospital, where he wields a gun and treats doctors and nurses as harshly as he has everyone else. Stump meets up with him at the hospital where Cobb begrudgingly gives Stump permission to tell the true story, even admitting he respects Stump for "beating" him, in a sense, by fooling Cobb the whole time about his intentions. Before Stump leaves, Cobb only asks Stump to remember that "the desire for glory is not a sin." Stump finishes both versions of Cobb's biography by the time Cobb finally dies in July 1961. In the end, however, Stump decides to publish the glowing autobiography Cobb hired him to write. Cast Tommy Lee Jones as Ty Cobb Robert Wuhl as Al Stump Lolita Davidovich as Ramona Lou Myers as Willie William Utay as Jameson J. Kenneth Campbell as William Herschel Cobb Rhoda Griffis as Amanda Chitwood Cobb Roger Clemens as Opposing pitcher Stephen Mendillo as Mickey Cochrane Tommy Bush as Rogers Hornsby Stacy Keach, Sr. as Jimmie Foxx Crash Davis as Sam Crawford Rath Shelton as Paul Waner Jim Shelton as Lloyd Waner Reid Cruickshanks as Pie Traynor Eloy Casados as Louis Prima Paula Rudy as Keely Smith Bradley Whitford as Process Server Brian Patrick Mulligan as Charlie Chaplin Jimmy Buffett as Heckler Production Baseball scenes were filmed in Birmingham, Alabama at Rickwood Field, which stood in for Philadelphia's Shibe Park and Pittsburgh's Forbes Field. Scenes also were filmed in Cobb's actual hometown of Royston, Georgia. Much of the Cobb location filming was in northern Nevada. The hotel check-in was at the Morris Hotel on Fourth Street in Reno. Casino, outdoor and entry shots were done