John Evangelist Walsh: 2 books
The Night Casey Was Born
The True Story Behind the Great American Ballad "Casey at the Bat"
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The acclaimed biographer offers a social history of the poem that helped America fall in love with baseball—a lively story that “hits it out of the park” (The Baltimore Sun).
The sport that came to be known as America’s Pastime was still in its infancy when a journalist for the San Francisco...
by John Evangelist Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
On August 29, 1857, in the light of a three-quarter moon, James Metzger was savagely beaten by two assailants in a grove not far from his home. Two days later he died and his assailants, James Norris and William Armstrong, were arrested and charged with his murder. Norris was tried and convicted first....