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The Cooperstown Chronicles is an entertaining look at the unusual lives, strange demises, and downright rowdy habits of some of the most colorful personalities in the history of baseball. Frank Russo goes beyond the stats and delves into each player's personality, his life outside of baseball, and even his final resting place.
About the author
Frank Russo is a baseball researcher who runs the popular website thedeadballera.com. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and currently blogs for the Yankees on NYbaseballdigest.com. Russo's writing has appeared in Sports Illustrated and in newspapers including the New York Post and the Boston Globe. Russo is the coauthor of Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball (2006).
Summary
The Cooperstown Chronicles is an entertaining look at the unusual lives, strange demises, and downright rowdy habits of some of the most colorful personalities in the history of baseball. Frank Russo goes beyond the stats and delves into each player's personality, his life outside of baseball, and even his final resting place.
