Editing Ty Cobb (section)

===Later life===
[[File:Ty Cobb 1951 (1).jpg|thumb|Cobb in 1951]]
In 1949, at the age of 62, Cobb married a second time, to 40-year-old Frances Fairbairn Cass, a [[divorcée]] from [[Buffalo, New York]].<ref name=TimeCobb>{{cite magazine | date=September 26, 1949 | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,800761-1,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018010340/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,800761-1,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 18, 2007 |title=The Old Gang |magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=February 10, 2007}}</ref> Their childless marriage ending with a divorce in 1956.<ref name=Time05211956>{{cite magazine | date=May 21, 1956 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,808526,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205135053/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,808526,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 5, 2006 |title=Milestones|magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=February 10, 2007}}</ref> At this time, Cobb became generous with his wealth, donating $100,000 in his parents' name for his hometown to build a modern 24-bed hospital, [[Cobb Memorial Hospital]], which is now part of the [[Ty Cobb Healthcare System]]. He also established the Cobb Educational Fund, which awarded scholarships to needy Georgia students bound for college, by endowing it with a $100,000 donation in 1953 (equivalent to approximately ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|100000|1953|r=0}}}} in current year dollars {{inflation-fn|US}}).<ref name=TyCobbMuseumPhilanthropy/>

Cobb knew that another way he could share his wealth was by having biographies written that would both set the record straight on him and teach young players how to play.{{clarify|reason=How's he sharing his wealth by having biographies written? If it's immaterial wealth (of knowledge), this should be phrased differently. Also, a statement about how Cobb "knew" anything shouldn't be unsourced.|date=December 2023}} [[John McCallum (author)|John McCallum]] spent some time with Cobb to write a combination how-to and biography titled ''The Tiger Wore Spikes: An Informal Biography of Ty Cobb'' that was published in 1956.<ref name=TigerWoreSpikes>{{cite book |first=John |last=McCallum |author-link= John McCallum (author)|title=The Tiger Wore Spikes: An Informal Biography of Ty Cobb |pages=240 pages |publisher=A. S. Barnes |location=New York |year=1956 }}</ref><ref name=BaseballWithBrains>{{cite news |first=Arthur |last=Daley |title=Baseball with Brains|page=231|newspaper=The New York Times Book Review |date=June 17, 1956 }}</ref> In December 1959, he was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]], [[diabetes mellitus|diabetes]], [[hypertension|high blood pressure]], and [[Bright's disease]].<ref name=NGECobb/><ref name=TyCobbMuseumDYK>{{cite web | url=http://www.tycobbmuseum.org/didyouknow.shtml.htm | title=Did You Know? | publisher=The Ty Cobb Museum | access-date=February 26, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230070900/http://www.tycobbmuseum.org/didyouknow.shtml.htm | archive-date=December 30, 2006 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>

It was also during his final years that Cobb began work on his autobiography, ''My Life in Baseball: The True Record'', with writer [[Al Stump]]. Cobb retained editorial control over the book and the published version presented him in a positive light. Stump said that the collaboration was contentious, and after Cobb's death Stump published two more books and a short story giving what he said was the "true story." One of these later books was used as the basis for the 1994 film ''[[Cobb (film)|Cobb]]'' (a box office flop starring [[Tommy Lee Jones]] as Cobb and directed by [[Ron Shelton]]). In 2010, an article by William R. "Ron" Cobb (no relation) in the peer-reviewed ''The National Pastime'' (the official publication of the [[Society for American Baseball Research]]) accused Stump of extensive forgeries of Cobb-related documents and diaries. The article further accused Stump of numerous false statements about Cobb in his last years, most of which were sensationalistic in nature and intended to cast Cobb in an unflattering light.<ref name="Gilbert"/>