Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, And Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball

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.