[PDF] The Cooperstown Murders eBook

Author : Frank Russo
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1617499366

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An entertaining look at how a number of baseball players have left fthe game all too soon, this book covers murders, suicides, accidents and bizarre mishaps, deaths by alcoholism, and even deaths by sexually transmitted diseases. The ever amusing and interesting stories include James Phelps, who made a running catch, was bitten by a poisonous snake, finished the game, then promptly died; Harold B. "Rowdy" Elliott, who fell out of an apartment window in San Francisco in 1934 at the age of 33; Gus Sandberg, who's demise was when he decided to light a match to see how much gas was in the tank of his car; Dernell Stensen, who was shot in the chest and head and run over by his own SUV in 2003 at the age of 25; Len Koenecke, who got his head smashed in by a pilot as he tried to grab controls in the cockpit of a commercial airplane flying from Chicago to Buffalo in 1935; and love-sick, star-stuck Bob Lansford, who poisoned himself to death with a picture of a young actress in front of him in 1907. There are countless offbeat facts, trivia, and even specific locations of where many of the ballplayers are buried such as Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Billy Martin, and many more. The book also provides you with a grave-hunting for dummies chapter with tips on how to find your favorite deceased ballplayer.

Author : Niles Eggleston
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :

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Probably no murder during the 20th century received more media coverage than did the Coo murder trial. The time: 1934. The place: Oneonta, New York.

Author : David Daniel
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312146832

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While visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame, ex-cop Frank Branco witnesses the murder of a former major leaguer and begins an investigation that eventually leads him to a retired ballpark vendor and his many memories.

Author : Kimberly A. Kenney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1439669309

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Rendered in painstaking detail, accounts of high-profile killings and courtroom drama filled the pages of Stark County's early newspapers. The triple hanging of three teenage boys in 1880 seized the attention of the entire community. When George Saxton, notorious womanizer and President McKinley's brother-in-law, was shot dead on the front lawn of his widowed lover in 1898, the whole nation looked on. For the brutal slaying of his wife, James Cornelius became the first local prison inmate executed in the electric chair in 1906. Using contemporary local newspaper accounts, author Kim Kenney tells the story of eight Stark County murders, unfolding the grisly details while honoring the lives cut short by violence.

Author : Stephen F. Wilcox
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595212913

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Crime reporter T.S.W. Sheridan investigates the troubled life—and untimely death—of one of his boyhood idols from the 1960s, baseball legend Frank Wooley. The second black player to play for the New York Yankees, Wooley's outspokenness on civil rights and labor issues -- and a reputation for womanizing and gambling -- had forced him from the game he loved. For twenty years he's lived the life of a recluse on a secluded piece of land tucked away in upstate New York's Finger Lakes region. Now, only weeks before his controversial induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Wooley is savagely murdered and Sheridan is determined to find out why.

Author : Kimberly A. Kenney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1467143022

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Rendered in painstaking detail, accounts of high-profile killings and courtroom drama filled the pages of Stark County's early newspapers. The triple hanging of three teenage boys in 1880 seized the attention of the entire community. When George Saxton, notorious womanizer and President McKinley's brother-in-law, was shot dead on the front lawn of his widowed lover in 1898, the whole nation looked on. For the brutal slaying of his wife, James Cornelius became the first local prison inmate executed in the electric chair in 1906. Using contemporary local newspaper accounts, author Kim Kenney tells the story of eight Stark County murders, unfolding the grisly details while honoring the lives cut short by violence.

Author : William M. Simons
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786486317

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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010 is an anthology of scholarly essays that utilize the national game to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark and constitute a significant academic contribution to baseball literature. The essays represent sixteen of the leading presentations from the two most recent proceedings of the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held, respectively, on June 3-5, 2009, and June 2-4, 2010. The anthology is divided into five parts: Baseball as Culture: Dance, Literature, National Character, and Myth; Constructing Baseball Heroes; Blacks in Baseball: From Segregation to Conflicted Integration; The Enterprise of Baseball: Economics and Entrepreneurs; and Genesis and Legacy of Baseball Scholarship, which features an essay written by the co-creator of baseball scholarship, Dorothy Seymour Mills.