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Type of bind: Paperback
Brand: FansEdge
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3570922
EAN num: 9781572438224
ISBN number: 1572438223
Label: Triumph Books (IL)
Manufacturer: Triumph Books (IL)
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: March 31, 2006
Publishing house: Triumph Books (IL)
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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.
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I bought this book based on what I knew from the website. This really is a great idea, but I found the organization of the book to be pretty bad. Names aren't in alphabetical order within chapters, and there is no index. Some of the summaries are cursory at best and really don't have much to say. I agree with some previous reviewers who said there are some glaring omissions. One that comes to mind is Jimmy Foxx (unless I missed that one). If the author is going to complete a sequel (and I actually hope he does) he might want to consider better organization so that future researchers can more easily reference his extensive work.
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A great read and I am not even a baseball fan. Well researched with tons of anecdotes. I am a history buff and many of the players profiled are from the late 1800's. You get a pretty good overview of the beginnings of baseball and the type of people who were attracted to it. Of course, there are the Babe Ruth's and Billy Martin's and other recent players as well. Of interest to both hard core baseball fans and those just curious about the back story of the sport.
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Frank Russo developed a terrific website about baseball necrology, and has taken some of his best information into the book, "Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, And Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball." For baseball fans who are in constant pursuit of the unusual, the untimely, sometimes odd, sometime expected and sometimes underreported deaths of players that we've read about, this is a book to read. On the surface, the reading of a book based on the details of death about a group of people may seem strange or morbid, but as death is a part of the human process (and, as baseball fans may attest, ballplayer deaths are always a compelling subject), this book is written in a way to pull you in to the lives of players at the time they played and died. Examples of this are the chapters of the players who died of VD (primarily the late 1800s into the early part of the 1900s), then the TB deaths (early to middle 1900s) and then into the modern stories of demise (shootings, airplane crashes, etc.) A progression of death, so to speak, but Russo tells the stories of the players and their deaths in an interesting, informative way. It's a book that's hard to put down.
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Baseball has been captivating the mind of America for over 130 years. We hold in amazement those who climb the heights of the sport to reach the major league level, even if they only get into 1 game. Thats 1 game more then the rest of us. Yet, after the cheers of the crowd dies down, and the player hangs up his spike for the last time, a vast majority of them fade back into society and are largely forgotten. This book, unlike any other, tells us the rest of the story of these ball players. How they live and died gives a final account of the lives that more often then not are similiar to our lives, except we never played in front of cheering crowds on the diamond.
To those of us who see that baseball is not merely sports, but a human endeavor and human struggle, Russo's and Racz's wonderfully fleshes out the stories after the Story. It brings back long forgotten players, some dead over 100 years. It puts a human face on the sport and gives us a real sense that today's game was built in the efforts of men big and small. Each story of life and death in this book reminds us all that everyone who gets to step up to that plate in a Major League game had to deal with what we all deal with once the game is over.
Its a wonderful read.
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The book claims to tell about the "salacious, sad and surreal deaths in the history of baseball." The stories in this book are certainly sad. They are also almost entirely mundane.
I would expect a book about "surreal" baseball deaths to talk about Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty, who slipped/jumped/was pushed off a bridge over Niagara Falls after being removed from a train. Or Bo Diaz, who was killed by a satellite dish. Yet they are nowhere to be found.
A quick perusal of the author's website turns up several intriguing situations: a player who was "hit by a falling weight," one who suffered "gas asphyxiation by his dentist," one who was "crushed by a dump truck." Where are they?
What about the players killed by the game itself? Where is Ray Chapman, the only major leaguer killed by a pitch? Where is Jim Creighton, who died from internal injuries suffered while swinging a bat? Where are any of the dozens of minor league players listed on the author's website as having died from playing, including one who died from a collision at home plate and one who was struck by lightning on the field?
The book did include a few interesting stories, but most of them are in the very first few pages of the very first chapter. The rest tend to be tedious stories of unknown players dying in routine fashion.
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