2021 College World Series Game Discussion Thread: Bracket 1 and Bracket 2 (excluding Tennessee)

Lmao. Do you remember Cantrell’s rules?
Rules to live by for sure…..rewatching it’s right now. It’s awesome. I had the vhs tape and converted it to a disk years ago. Now on YouTube, it will be a yearly ritual.
 
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Thinking Tennessee had a run in losers bracket if they had strikeouts on 3-2 counts and Gilbert gets a hit with basesloaded
 
That was great, really dark, as it should have been, but great! Nice one!

Of course it was a total hit piece of a movie which was based on a book written by Al Stump. But entertaining.

In 2010, an article by William R. Cobb (no relation to Ty) in the peer-reviewed The National Pastime, the official publication of the Society for American Baseball Research, accused Al Stump of extensive forgeries of Cobb-related baseball and personal memorabilia, including personal documents and diaries. Stump even falsely claimed to possess a shotgun used by Cobb's mother to kill his father (in a well-known 1905 incident officially ascribed to Mrs Cobb having mistaken her husband for an intruder). The shotgun later came into the hands of noted memorabilia collector Barry Halper. Despite the shotgun's notoriety, official newspaper and court documents of the time clearly show Cobb's father had been killed with a pistol. The article, and later expanded book,[5] further accused Stump of numerous false statements about Cobb, not only during and immediately after their 1961 collaboration, but also in Stump's later years, most of which were sensationalist in nature and intended to cast Cobb in an unflattering light.[1] Cobb's peer-reviewed research indicates that all of Stump's works (print and memorabilia) surrounding Ty Cobb are, at the very best, called into question and, at worst, "should be dismiss(ed) out of hand as untrue".[1]
 
Of course it was a total hit piece of a movie which was based on a book written by Al Stump. But entertaining.

In 2010, an article by William R. Cobb (no relation to Ty) in the peer-reviewed The National Pastime, the official publication of the Society for American Baseball Research, accused Al Stump of extensive forgeries of Cobb-related baseball and personal memorabilia, including personal documents and diaries. Stump even falsely claimed to possess a shotgun used by Cobb's mother to kill his father (in a well-known 1905 incident officially ascribed to Mrs Cobb having mistaken her husband for an intruder). The shotgun later came into the hands of noted memorabilia collector Barry Halper. Despite the shotgun's notoriety, official newspaper and court documents of the time clearly show Cobb's father had been killed with a pistol. The article, and later expanded book,[5] further accused Stump of numerous false statements about Cobb, not only during and immediately after their 1961 collaboration, but also in Stump's later years, most of which were sensationalist in nature and intended to cast Cobb in an unflattering light.[1] Cobb's peer-reviewed research indicates that all of Stump's works (print and memorabilia) surrounding Ty Cobb are, at the very best, called into question and, at worst, "should be dismiss(ed) out of hand as untrue".[1]

Welp, I have read a book or two about that time period and it seems to be unanimous, great baseball player and a tough SOB, I take things for what they’re worth, he wasn’t real likable, IMO.
 
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