Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the

Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit

A New York Times Bestseller

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 citizensâ€”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 Depressionâ€™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 hockeyâ€”all while Joe Louis chased boxingâ€™s heavyweight crown.

Amidst such glory, the Legionâ€™s dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged â€œsuicides,â€ bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Deanâ€™s involvement would deepen as heroic Mickeyâ€™s Cochraneâ€™s reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Fordâ€™s brutal union buster.

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.
Country USA
Brand Lyons Press
Manufacturer Lyons Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-06-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781493015702

Country	USA
Brand	Lyons Press
Manufacturer	Lyons Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-06-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781493015702

Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit

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