The Ty Cobb Museum has just published a powerful investigative book that unmasks one of the most shocking frauds in sports memorabilia history. Through in-depth research and exclusive interviews, Author and Ty Cobb Museum Board Member Ron Cobb proves that a set of dentures sold for nearly $20,000 at auction and long believed to have belonged to Ty Cobb were in fact forgeries—part of a vast deception led by Al Stump, Cobb’s discredited biographer. The study not only exposes the dentures’ falsity, but also sheds light on Stump’s decades-long pattern of forgery and fabrication that has warped public understanding of the baseball legend.
Ron Cobb’s meticulously documented work features appendices filled with photographic evidence, including a gallery of counterfeit autographs, forged letters, and falsified personal items attributed to Ty Cobb and other sports icons. Also included are Stump’s personal letters revealing how he manufactured and marketed fakes that infiltrated collections for decades. Together, these findings rewrite a critical chapter in baseball history—restoring truth to Ty Cobb’s legacy and protecting collectors from one of the sport’s most infamous cons.
