Eddie Waitkus received a note, while staying at a Chicago hotel in June 1949, from a deranged stalker asking to meet him regarding an important matter. Having no idea of the person in question, Waiktus, a major league baseball player, asked the front desk about who had checked into the room mentioned in the note. […]
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“The Texas 7” is an engaging true crime audiobook about the daring escape of seven inmates from a Texas maximum security prison on December 13, 2000. In Kennedy, Texas, seven dangerous convicts escaped the facility driving away in a Department of Corrections truck, and started a massive manhunt for their captures. Gary C. King shares
Dan Rooney was one of the most influential sports executives of his generation, the man who transformed the Pittsburgh Steelers into one of the National Football League’s great dynasties and premiere franchises. Some of his most important achievements, however, took place off the playing field as he sought to bring about equity in the league’s
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A compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in
William C. Dear, a Dallas-based private investigator. was hired by the Milo family to find the killer of Dean Milo in 1980. Milo ran the successful Milo Barber and Beauty Supply Company, a family business, and had rubbed his siblings the wrong way by his business practices. Additionally, there were rumors that Milo’s death could
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“The Taco Bell Strangler” is Henry Louis Wallace, a series rapist and killer from North Carolina, who murdered 11 women between 1990 and 1994, before being arrested and confessing to his crimes. In “Bad Henry,” author Ron Chepesiuk documents his troubled youth, often being beaten by his controlling mother. Wallace claims to have witnessed a
Was Pretty Boy Floyd a stone cold killer, or Robin Hood as many viewed him? You will definitely have your answer upon completing “The Life & Death of Pretty Boy Floyd.” The outlaw was certainly a slippery character, alluding massive manhunts. It would come to an abrupt end in a small town in Ohio in
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They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn’t listen. From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye‑opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively popular pop culture—professional wrestling—starring the Iron Sheik, Hulk Hogan, Tito Santana, and many more larger‑than‑life characters of the WWF of the 1980s. In 2005, Brad
There have been many books written about the notorious James “Whitey” Bulger. The organized crime boss addresses how he was portrayed by the media, and attempts to clear up any misconceptions in “James Whitey Bulger” by Alcatraz expert Michael Esslinger. Before he became the leader of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston, and spent many
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Confession! I do not grow up in the UK, however, it was fun to compare my experiences with someone that did in the 1980’s. Peter Nuttall opens this fun journey back in time to recalling the cartoons and TV shows he enjoyed, and a few that were truly forgettable. I don’t recall “Thunder Cats” or
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