Book Description
Who died too young? Who drowned on a train? Who kept syphilis a secret?
Where are baseball’s villains and greats buried?
Bury My Heart at Cooperstown is the rare baseball book that successfully
walks the fine line between reverence and humor. A remarkable encyclopedia
of information, this book tells the tales of baseball’s characters,
its mascots and murderers, those who suffered heroically, and those who
joyfully drank themselves into oblivion. Bizarre, tragic, twisted, honorable,
and gruesome—their stories are collected here for tribute and trivia.
From the Publisher
"Baseball devotees will love this book for their own reasons, but so
will non-acolytes. Maybe in different sets of hands that would have been
impossible to pull off. But in Frank Russo’s and Gene Racz’s hands,
what you’re about to read will soon become one of those books where
the corners of the pages quickly wear away from overuse." —from
the foreword by New York Post sportswriter Mike Vaccaro
