Al Stump, a sport reporter arrives at the Tahoe home of the legendary baseball's premier hitter Ty Cobb to write the official life story of the baseball's hero acknowledged in the Baseball Hall Of Fame. What he discovers is a boozy, misanthropic, disgusting racist who abuses his biographer as well as everyone else. Stump must choose between disguising his subject's life or unfolding the real story behind an American sports legend.