03260cam a2200349 4500 582804868 TxAuBib 20220717120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781493018185 1493018183 B01CK3BHII Amazon f241324a-27c8-4692-8222-1925087971b6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2618865 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Stanton, Tom. Terror in the City of Champions [Bridges eBook] : Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit. Lyons Press, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6802kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 6802kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. baseball. HTML:A New York Times Bestseller<br /> Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens—even, possibly, a beloved athlete.<br /> Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression's hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey—all while Joe Louis chased boxing's heavyweight crown.<br /> Amidst such glory, the Legion's dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged "suicides," bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean's involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey's Cochrane's reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford's brutal union buster.<br /> Award-winning author Tom Stanton weaves a stunning tale of history, crime, and sports. Richly portraying 1930s America, Terror in the City of Champions features a pageant of colorful figures: iconic athletes, sanctimonious criminals, scheming industrial titans, a bigoted radio priest, a love-smitten celebrity couple, J. Edgar Hoover, and two future presidents, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. It is a rollicking true story set at the confluence of hard luck, hope, victory, and violence.<br /> . Sports & Recreations. True Crime. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-14 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f241324a-27c8-4692-8222-1925087971b6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f241324a-27c8-4692-8222-1925087971b6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f241324a-27c8-4692-8222-1925087971b6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)