Death at the Ballpark: More Than 2,000 Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball, 1862-2014, 2D Ed. (Paperback)

from bks1953

Perusing through "Death at the Ballpark" upon receipt (courtesy of McFarland & Co. and LTER), almost immediately I knew that the authors just had to be librarians. Sure enough, reading the author bios on the outside back cover, my guesstimate was spot-on. Only a librarian could create such a comp...

from davemac

This book is very interesting - a veritable encyclopedia of baseball fatalities, with all the drama and human interest such a subject suggests. I found it to be well-written and hard to put down. I never realized baseball had such a traumatic history, although I have seen some plays in the past f...

from ghr4

This is a comprehensive and painstaking work on baseball's game-related fatalities that have occurred from the major league level down through the minor leagues, black baseball leagues, and amateur ball. The incidents are meticulously categorized, and the tragic individual events are presented in...

from miller.max

Upon picking up this book, perhaps the fist thing that catches your attention is the depth of research and thought that went into putting it together. Gorman and Weeks clearly harnessed their professional skills as librarians to harness the wide variety of sources that this work required. A work ...

from Gregg72340

Definitely a book for a true baseball fan. The book is a compilation of every baseball death in amateur and professional baseball. The research that goes into a book like this must be staggering. The author has put something together that may be used as a reference material as opposed to lets sit...