​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Al Stump (October 20, 1916 – December 14, 1995), was an American author and Sports writer. Stump spent a great deal of time with Ty Cobb before Cobb's death. Stump wrote one book with Cobb, one book on Cobb and a handful of magazine articles about the time the two men spent together. The books are titled My Life in Baseball: The True Record and Cobb: A Biography. My Life in Baseball was ghostwritten by Stump. Cobb: A Biography was a follow up piece written after Cobb died. It was a reflection by Stump on his time with Cobb. The Stump autobiography came out a few months after Cobb's death. Thirty years later, Stump wrote his own biography of Cobb. Description above from the Wikipedia article Al Stump, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.