Cracking Baseball's Cold Cases: Filling in the Facts About 17 Mystery Major Leaguers

by Peter Morris

Overview

This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "cold cases" of major leaguers about whom virtually nothing is known. (In many instances, the various baseball encyclopedias list only their names and one other word: "deceased.") Some of these mysterious players had negligible professional careers and their time on a major league diamond was more the result of good fortune than anything else; others were stars in their day and then vanished.

The Biographical Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research is committed to finding them and award-winning researcher Peter Morris tells the story of some of the most remarkable of the searches that resulted, many of which featured twists so surprising no mystery writer could have invented them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476603315
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	03/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	704 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Baseball historian Peter Morris is a two-time winner of the Seymour Medal for best baseball book of the year and was an inaugural winner of the Henry Chadwick Award for lifetime achievement in baseball research. He lives in Haslett, Michigan.
Baseball historian Peter Morris is a two-time winner of the Seymour Medal for best baseball book of the year and was an inaugural winner of the Henry Chadwick Award for lifetime achievement in baseball research. He lives in Haslett, Michigan.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
 1—Walter Walker
 2—Seymour Studley
 3—Tom Carey
 4—Eddie Kolb
 5—Louis Phelan
 6—Abbie Johnson
 7—Bert Miller
 8—Arthur Sunday
 9—Wally Goldsmith
10—Al Nichols
11—Patrick Murphy
12—Harvey Watkins
13—“I’ve Been Right Here This Whole Time”
14—The Shafer Brothers
15—Peter Morris
16—George Bristow
17—Early Bloodhound Techniques
18—Ed Clark
19—Joe Gannon
Afterword
Chapter Notes
Index