03463nam 2200613 450 991082284700332120170919025302.01-4930-1818-3(CKB)3710000000610680(EBL)4428207(OCoLC)936549438(SSID)ssj0001624720(PQKBManifestationID)16361670(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001624720(PQKBWorkID)14909694(PQKB)10884834(PQKBManifestationID)16334773(PQKBWorkID)14910197(PQKB)20792624(MiAaPQ)EBC4428207(EXLCZ)99371000000061068020160125h20162016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTerror in the city of champions murder, baseball, and the secret society that shocked Depression-era Detroit /Tom StantonGuilford, Connecticut :Lyons Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4930-3058-2 1-4930-1570-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Prologue; Part I: Something Afoot: 1933-1934; Mickey and Dayton; A Friend Disappears; Spring in Lakeland; Major-General Bert; A Future Together; The Bee Is Buzzing; Neither Threats Nor Bribes; It Hurt for Days; The Little Stone Chapel; The Superstitious Schoolboy and His Gal; Happy Rosh Hashanah, Hank; Oh, Those Dean Boys; The Attorney down the Street; Part II: Grand Plans: 1935; A New Year; Mr. Hoover, Investigate; Harry's Caravan; The Radio Priest; The Killing of Silas Coleman; Worries; Unwanted Attention; Zero Hour; Louis vs. Baer; World Champions; Amid the Joy, PunishmentThe Pastor Who Said NoUncle Frank; Come to Detroit, Lindbergh; Part III: Joy and Terror: 1936; Case Closed; City of Champions; Rumors; Poole and Pidcock; Secrets; Black Legion Hysteria; Frenzied Nerves; Dayton Dean and the Negro Reporter; The Captain; Wyoming; The Cover-Up; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorDetroit, 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. Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression's hardest-hiMurderMichiganDetroitHistory20th centuryProfessional sportsMichiganDetroitHistory20th centuryBaseballMichiganDetroitHistory20th centuryDetroit (Mich.)History20th centuryMurderHistoryProfessional sportsHistoryBaseballHistory364.152/30977434Stanton Tom1960-1435303MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822847003321Terror in the city of champions3913597UNINA